
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

Saturday Night Live

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

Jimmy Kimmel Live!

Late Night with Seth Meyers

The Daily Show

Real Time with Bill Maher

The One Show

Golden Globe Awards

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

The Tonight Show with Jay Leno

The Graham Norton Show

The Oscars

LIVE with Kelly and Mark

Comedy Central Roasts

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

#LoveArmy : Où es-tu Jérôme ?

The Godfather Trilogy: 1901-1980

The Godfather Family: A Look Inside

The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle

Stardust

The Good Shepherd

I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale

The Godfather Part II

Marvin's Room

Red Lights

Ennio Morricone

The Untouchables

Killer Elite

Backdraft

Tin Soldier

Silver Linings Playbook

Jackie Brown

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

Wag the Dog

Scorsese's GoodFellas

Killers of the Flower Moon

Bang the Drum Slowly

Limitless

Shark Tale

Mr. Saturday Night

Meet the Fockers

Sleepers

Meet the Parents

Hands of Stone

Savage Salvation

Heat

Joker

About My Father

The Irishman: In Conversation

Heist

Angel Heart

Joy

Brazil

Men of Honor

The Score

The King of Comedy

Taxi Driver

Ronin

Focker-In-Law

1900

Analyze This

This Boy's Life

GoodFellas

The Last Tycoon

Awakenings

Last Vegas

Falling in Love

Raging Bull

The Alto Knights

Midnight Run

Flawless

Casino

The Big Wedding

Grudge Match

Showtime

Dirty Grandpa

The Family

Zero Day

City by the Sea

Little Fockers

The Deer Hunter

We're No Angels

Cape Fear

Once Upon a Time in America

The Comeback Trail

The Irishman

Mad Dog and Glory

A Bronx Tale

The Intern

The Wizard of Lies

Righteous Kill

The War with Grandpa
Production Credits

Me and Earl and the Dying Girl

We're No Angels

Meet the Fockers

Public Enemies

A Bronx Tale

When They See Us

Rent

Little Fockers

Holiday Heart

Focker-In-Law

The Irishman

Artemis Fowl

The Good Shepherd

Bohemian Rhapsody

The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle

Zero Day

About a Boy

Meet the Parents

Marvin's Room

Wag the Dog

NYC 22

The Wizard of Lies
Movies+ Discover & Track Movies
Never miss a movie again with Movies+, the simple tracker that keeps you updated on where to watch, stream, rent, or buy, while also alerting you to any production changes and new release dates of your favorite films!
Get
