
Robert De Niro
14 FOLLOWERS • 128 CREDITS • AUG 17, 1943 • 82
Biography
Robert Anthony De Niro is an American actor and film producer. He is 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.
Known For

Jimmy Kimmel Live!

Saturday Night Live

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

Late Night with Seth Meyers

The Graham Norton Show

The Daily Show

Real Time with Bill Maher

The One Show

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

The Tonight Show with Jay Leno

The Oscars

LIVE with Kelly and Mark

Comedy Central Roasts

Golden Globe Awards

The Cleveland Show

30 Rock

100 Years of Warner Bros.

Extras

Mr. Scorsese

Late Night with Jimmy Fallon

American Hustle

Val

How to Rob a Bank

Hot Potato: The Story of The Wiggles

Amsterdam

Arthur and the Invisibles

Sergio Leone: The Italian Who Invented America

Comedy Central Roast of Alec Baldwin

Breslin and Hamill: Deadline Artists

The Godfather Trilogy: 1901-1980

#LoveArmy : Où es-tu Jérôme ?

The Godfather Family: A Look Inside

The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle

The Good Shepherd

Stardust

I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale

Marvin's Room

The Godfather Part II

Jackie Brown

Killer Elite

Backdraft

The Untouchables

Ennio Morricone

Silver Linings Playbook

Tin Soldier

Mario Puzo's The Godfather: The Complete Novel for Television

Red Lights

Meet the Parents

Shark Tale

Limitless

The Irishman: In Conversation

Angel Heart

Bang the Drum Slowly

Hands of Stone

Savage Salvation

Joker

Wag the Dog

Killers of the Flower Moon

Heat

Meet the Fockers

Scorsese's GoodFellas

Sleepers

Heist

About My Father

Mr. Saturday Night

Joy

Brazil

This Boy's Life

1900

Awakenings

Showtime

The Wizard of Lies

Mad Dog and Glory

Zero Day

Once Upon a Time in America

The War with Grandpa

City by the Sea

Men of Honor

The Deer Hunter

The King of Comedy

We're No Angels

The Last Tycoon

The Alto Knights

Grudge Match

The Score

Falling in Love

Ronin

Taxi Driver

GoodFellas

A Bronx Tale

Little Fockers

Righteous Kill

Raging Bull

The Irishman

The Intern

Last Vegas

Flawless

The Big Wedding

The Comeback Trail

The Family

Cape Fear

Dirty Grandpa

Midnight Run

Analyze This

Casino

Focker-In-Law
Production Credits

Public Enemies

Little Fockers

Me and Earl and the Dying Girl

The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle

NYC 22

Focker-In-Law

A Bronx Tale

Holiday Heart

Meet the Parents

When They See Us

Rent

Zero Day

Artemis Fowl

About a Boy

The Irishman

Wag the Dog

Marvin's Room

We're No Angels

The Wizard of Lies

Bohemian Rhapsody

Meet the Fockers

The Good Shepherd
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