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Robert De Niro
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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 Graham Norton Show
The Daily Show
Real Time with Bill Maher
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
Comedy Central Roasts
Golden Globe Awards
The Cleveland Show
30 Rock
100 Years of Warner Bros.
Extras
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 Godfather Family: A Look Inside
The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle
The Good Shepherd
The Untouchables
Marvin's Room
I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale
The Godfather Part II
Backdraft
Mario Puzo's The Godfather: The Complete Novel for Television
Jackie Brown
Killer Elite
Silver Linings Playbook
Heist
About My Father
Bang the Drum Slowly
Joy
Shark Tale
Sleepers
Limitless
Meet the Parents
Killers of the Flower Moon
Mr. Saturday Night
Red Lights
Scorsese's GoodFellas
Joker
Heat
Brazil
Wag the Dog
Hands of Stone
Savage Salvation
Angel Heart
The Irishman: In Conversation
Meet the Fockers
Mad Dog and Glory
The Deer Hunter
1900
The Last Tycoon
Midnight Run
GoodFellas
We're No Angels
Zero Day
Men of Honor
The Wizard of Lies
The Comeback Trail
The Family
Last Vegas
A Bronx Tale
Once Upon a Time in America
Ronin
Analyze This
Grudge Match
Falling in Love
The King of Comedy
Flawless
The Intern
The Irishman
The War with Grandpa
Raging Bull
Cape Fear
Casino
Taxi Driver
Dirty Grandpa
City by the Sea
Little Fockers
The Score
Awakenings
Production Credits
The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle
The Wizard of Lies
Bohemian Rhapsody
Zero Day
Artemis Fowl
Public Enemies
The Irishman
Marvin's Room
When They See Us
We're No Angels
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
About a Boy
Meet the Fockers
The Good Shepherd
Little Fockers
A Bronx Tale
Holiday Heart
Meet the Parents
Wag the Dog
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