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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
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
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
The Cleveland Show
30 Rock
Extras
100 Years of Warner Bros.
Late Night with Jimmy Fallon
American Hustle
How to Rob a Bank
Val
Hot Potato: The Story of The Wiggles
Amsterdam
Arthur and the Invisibles
Comedy Central Roast of Alec Baldwin
Stardust
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
I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale
The Godfather Part II
Marvin's Room
Killer Elite
Backdraft
Jackie Brown
Silver Linings Playbook
Mario Puzo's The Godfather: The Complete Novel for Television
Hands of Stone
Angel Heart
Wag the Dog
Scorsese's GoodFellas
Bang the Drum Slowly
The Irishman: In Conversation
Savage Salvation
Heat
Limitless
Killers of the Flower Moon
Red Lights
Joker
Heist
Mr. Saturday Night
Joy
Meet the Fockers
Shark Tale
Sleepers
About My Father
Brazil
Meet the Parents
Flawless
Falling in Love
Men of Honor
1900
GoodFellas
Last Vegas
The Intern
Zero Day
Grudge Match
Taxi Driver
Raging Bull
The Irishman
Little Fockers
Casino
City by the Sea
Ronin
The Score
A Bronx Tale
The Wizard of Lies
Mad Dog and Glory
The Comeback Trail
The Deer Hunter
Once Upon a Time in America
Righteous Kill
Dirty Grandpa
The Last Tycoon
We're No Angels
Awakenings
The King of Comedy
Cape Fear
Analyze This
Midnight Run
The War with Grandpa
The Family
Production Credits
Public Enemies
Marvin's Room
We're No Angels
Meet the Parents
The Irishman
The Wizard of Lies
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
Bohemian Rhapsody
Artemis Fowl
When They See Us
NYC 22
About a Boy
Zero Day
Meet the Fockers
Little Fockers
Wag the Dog
Holiday Heart
The Good Shepherd
The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle
A Bronx Tale
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