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Robert Anthony De Niro (born August 17, 1943) is an American actor. Known for his collaborations with Martin Scorsese, he is considered to be one of the best actors of his generation. De Niro is the recipient of various accolades, including two Academy Awards, a Golden Globe Award, the Cecil B. DeMille Award, and a Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award. In 2009, De Niro received the Kennedy Center Honor, and earned a Presidential Medal of Freedom from 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 collaboration with Scorsese was with the 1973 film Mean Streets. De Niro 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). His other Oscar-nominated roles were for Taxi Driver (1976), The Deer Hunter (1978), Awakenings (1990), Cape Fear (1991), and Silver Linings Playbook (2012). Other notable roles include in 1900 (1976), The King of Comedy (1982), Once Upon a Time in America (1984), Brazil (1985), The Mission (1986), Goodfellas (1990), This Boy's Life (1993), Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1994), Heat (1995), Casino (1995), Jackie Brown (1997), The Good Shepherd (2006), Joker (2019), and The Irishman (2019). He made his directorial film debut with A Bronx Tale (1993). His comedic roles include Midnight Run (1988), Wag the Dog (1997), Analyze This (1999), 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 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or Movie nomination. 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.[1] 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. 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".
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Robert Anthony De Niro (born August 17, 1943) is an American actor. Known for his collaborations with Martin Scorsese, he is considered to be one of the best actors of his generation. De Niro is the recipient of various accolades, including two Academy Awards, a Golden Globe Award, the Cecil B. DeMille Award, and a Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award. In 2009, De Niro received the Kennedy Center Honor, and earned a Presidential Medal of Freedom from 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 collaboration with Scorsese was with the 1973 film Mean Streets. De Niro 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). His other Oscar-nominated roles were for Taxi Driver (1976), The Deer Hunter (1978), Awakenings (1990), Cape Fear (1991), and Silver Linings Playbook (2012). Other notable roles include in 1900 (1976), The King of Comedy (1982), Once Upon a Time in America (1984), Brazil (1985), The Mission (1986), Goodfellas (1990), This Boy's Life (1993), Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1994), Heat (1995), Casino (1995), Jackie Brown (1997), The Good Shepherd (2006), Joker (2019), and The Irishman (2019). He made his directorial film debut with A Bronx Tale (1993). His comedic roles include Midnight Run (1988), Wag the Dog (1997), Analyze This (1999), 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 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or Movie nomination. 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.[1] 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. 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".
Known For
Saturday Night Live
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Late Night with Seth Meyers
The Oscars
The Daily Show
Real Time with Bill Maher
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
The Graham Norton Show
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
Comedy Central Roasts
Golden Globe Awards
30 Rock
100 Years of Warner Bros.
Extras
Late Night with Jimmy Fallon
American Hustle
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Val
How to Rob a Bank
Hot Potato: The Story of The Wiggles
Amsterdam
Arthur and the Invisibles
Stardust
Comedy Central Roast of Alec Baldwin
Breslin and Hamill: Deadline Artists
#LoveArmy : Où es-tu Jérôme ?
The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle
The Godfather Family: A Look Inside
The Good Shepherd
The Untouchables
Marvin's Room
I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale
The Godfather Part II
Jackie Brown
Killer Elite
Backdraft
Silver Linings Playbook
Killers of the Flower Moon
Mario Puzo's The Godfather: The Complete Novel for Television
Meet the Parents
About My Father
Meet the Fockers
Shark Tale
Angel Heart
Joy
Wag the Dog
Joker
Brazil
Sleepers
Savage Salvation
Heat
Scorsese's Goodfellas
Heist
Bang the Drum Slowly
The Irishman: In Conversation
Mr. Saturday Night
Limitless
GoodFellas
The War with Grandpa
We're No Angels
Ronin
Men of Honor
Little Fockers
1900
The Irishman
Grudge Match
Flawless
Falling in Love
Awakenings
The Comeback Trail
The King of Comedy
Analyze This
Raging Bull
The Deer Hunter
A Bronx Tale
The Score
The Wizard of Lies
Taxi Driver
Mad Dog and Glory
The Last Tycoon
The Family
Cape Fear
The Intern
Midnight Run
Casino
Dirty Grandpa
Zero Day
Production Credits
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
Meet the Fockers
Public Enemies
We're No Angels
Holiday Heart
Bohemian Rhapsody
NYC 22
Meet the Parents
Marvin's Room
About a Boy
The Irishman
The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle
A Bronx Tale
The Good Shepherd
When They See Us
Little Fockers
Zero Day
Artemis Fowl
Wag the Dog
The Wizard of Lies
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