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Robert De Niro

Robert De Niro

Actor · b. 1943 · Greenwich Village, New York City, New York, USA

Robert Anthony De Niro (born August 17, 1943) is an American actor and film producer. Considered one of his generation's greatest and most influential actors, De Niro has received various accolades, including two Academy Awards and a Golden Globe Award, as well as nominations for eight BAFTA Awards and four Emmy Awards. He was honoured with the AFI Life Achievement Award in 2003, the Kennedy Center Honors in 2009, the Cecil B. DeMille Award in 2011, and the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award in 2019. De Niro was presented with the Presidential Medal of Freedom by U.S. President Barack Obama in 2016. De Niro studied acting at HB Studio, Stella Adler Conservatory, and Lee Strasberg's Actors Studio. His first credited screen role was in Brian de Palma's Greetings (1968). De Niro's first collaboration with Martin Scorsese was with the crime drama film Mean Streets (1973). De Niro has earned two Academy Awards: one for Best Supporting Actor for his role as Vito Corleone in Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather Part II (1974) and the other for Best Actor portraying Jake LaMotta in Scorsese's drama Raging Bull (1980). De Niro was also Oscar-nominated for Taxi Driver (1976), The Deer Hunter (1978), Awakenings (1990), Cape Fear (1991), Silver Linings Playbook (2012), and Killers of the Flower Moon (2023). He is also known for his film roles in Bang the Drum Slowly (1973), 1900 (1976), The King of Comedy (1982), Once Upon a Time in America(1984), Brazil (1985), The Mission (1986), Angel Heart (1987), The Untouchables (1987), Goodfellas (1990), This Boy's Life (1993), Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1994), Heat (1995), Casino (1995), Jackie Brown (1997), Joker (2019), and The Irishman (2019). He directed and acted in A Bronx Tale (1993) and The Good Shepherd (2006). His comedic roles include Hi, Mom! (1970), Midnight Run (1988), Wag the Dog (1997), Analyze This (1999) and its sequel, Analyze That (2002), the Meet the Parents films (2000–2010), and The Intern (2015). Also known for his television roles, De Niro portrayed Bernie Madoff in the HBO film The Wizard of Lies (2017), earning a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or Movie. He received further Emmy Award nominations for producing the Netflix limited series When They See Us (2019) and for portraying Robert Mueller on Saturday Night Live. De Niro and producer Jane Rosenthal founded the film and television production company TriBeCa Productions in 1989, which has produced several films alongside his own. Also with Rosenthal, he founded the Tribeca Film Festival in 2002. Many of De Niro's films are considered classics of American cinema. Six of De Niro's films have been inducted into the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" as of 2023. Five films are featured on the American Film Institute's (AFI) list of the 100 greatest American films ever. Timeout magazine's list of 100 best movies included seven of De Niro's films, as chosen by actors in the industry.

Movies24

  • Movie6.8

    The Whisper Man

    2026 · 733 votes

  • Movie8.1

    Joker

    2019 · 28K votes

  • Movie8.6

    The Godfather Part II

    1974 · 14K votes

  • Movie7.4

    Killers of the Flower Moon

    2023 · 4.3K votes

  • Movie8.5

    GoodFellas

    1990 · 14K votes

  • Movie7.9

    Heat

    1995 · 8.7K votes

  • Movie8.4

    Once Upon a Time in America

    1984 · 6.2K votes

  • Movie8.1

    Taxi Driver

    1976 · 13K votes

  • Movie7.2

    The Intern

    2015 · 7.5K votes

  • Movie6.0

    Shark Tale

    2004 · 6.8K votes

  • Movie7.2

    Limitless

    2011 · 11K votes

  • Movie7.6

    The Irishman

    2019 · 7.7K votes

  • Movie6.3

    Meet the Fockers

    2004 · 5.3K votes

  • Movie7.9

    A Bronx Tale

    1993 · 3K votes

  • Movie7.8

    The Untouchables

    1987 · 6.3K votes

  • Movie7.2

    Silver Linings Playbook

    2012 · 12K votes

  • Movie7.6

    Sleepers

    1996 · 4K votes

  • Movie8.0

    Casino

    1995 · 6.7K votes

  • Movie8.0

    The Deer Hunter

    1978 · 4.4K votes

  • Movie7.5

    Men of Honor

    2000 · 2.6K votes

  • Movie6.4

    Arthur et les Minimoys

    Arthur and the Invisibles

    2006 · 3.1K votes

  • Movie7.9

    Raging Bull

    1980 · 4.9K votes

  • Movie7.1

    This Boy's Life

    1993 · 1.1K votes

  • Movie7.3

    Cape Fear

    1991 · 4K votes

Series24

  • TV6.1
  • TV5.8
  • TV5.1
  • TV4.3

    The View

    1997 · 113 votes

  • TV6.4

    The Daily Show

    1996 · 660 votes

  • TV6.9

    Saturday Night Live

    1975 · 527 votes

  • TV5.3

    Jimmy Kimmel Live!

    2003 · 217 votes

  • TV5.6

    LIVE with Kelly and Mark

    1988 · 51 votes

  • TV7.2

    The Graham Norton Show

    2007 · 290 votes

  • TV5.4
  • TV6.0

    Real Time with Bill Maher

    2003 · 248 votes

  • TV4.4

    The One Show

    2006 · 31 votes

  • TV7.0

    Golden Globe Awards

    1944 · 20 votes

  • TV6.8

    The Merv Griffin Show

    1962 · 12 votes

  • TV4.8

    The Reichen Show

    2005 · 5 votes

  • TV7.5

    30 Rock

    2006 · 847 votes

  • TV7.0

    RTL Tonight

    2025 · 1 votes

  • TV5.9
  • TV6.0
  • TV7.0

    The Oscars

    1953 · 84 votes

  • TV6.2
  • TV5.9

    The Cleveland Show

    2009 · 476 votes

  • TV5.7

    Goldene Kamera

    1984 · 3 votes

  • TV5.1

    Film '72

    1971 · 8 votes