Robert De Niro
17 August, 1943
| 1.77 m
Actor
Producer
Director
Biography
One of the greatest actors of all time, Robert De Niro was born on August 17, 1943 in Manhattan, New York City, to artists Virginia (Admiral) and Robert De Niro Sr. His paternal grandfather was of Italian descent, and his other ancestry is Irish, English, Dutch, German, and French. He was trained at the Stella Adler Conservatory and the American Workshop. De Niro first gained fame for his role in Uderzaj powoli w bęben (1973), but he gained his reputation as a volatile actor in Ulice nędzy (1973), which was his first film with director Martin Scorsese. He received an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in Ojciec chrzestny II (1974) and received Academy Award nominations for best actor in Taksówkarz (1976), Łowca jeleni (1978) and Przylądek strachu (1991). He received the Academy Award for Best Actor for his role as Jake LaMotta in Wściekły byk (1980).De Niro has earned four Golden Globe Award nominations for Best Actor - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy, for his work in New York, New York (1977), opposite Liza Minnelli, Zdążyć przed północą (1988), Depresja gangstera (1999) and Poznaj mojego tatę (2000). Other notable performances include Brazil (1985), Nietykalni (1987), Ognisty podmuch (1991), Frankenstein (1994), Gorączka (1995), Kasyno (1995) and Jackie Brown (1997). At the same time, he also directed and starred in such films as Prawo Bronxu (1993) and Dobry agent (2006). De Niro has also received the AFI Lifetime Achievement Award in 2003 and the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award in 2010.As of 2022, De Niro is 79-years-old. He has never retired from acting, and continues to work regularly in mostly film.
Movies
When a son of a gangster shark boss is accidentally killed while on the hunt, his would-be prey and his vegetarian brother decide to use the incident to their own advantage.
A freelancing former U.S. Intelligence Agent tries to track down a mysterious package that is wanted by the Irish and the Russians.
An intense drama about a boy torn between his tough, hard-working father and a violent yet charismatic crime boss.
A comedy about a psychiatrist whose number-one patient is an insecure mob boss.
Dr. Sayer is a pioneering neurologist who wants to take a risk and give his patients who suffer from encephalitis a drug used for Parkinson's Disease. He tries it out on one man who miraculously wakes from his perpetual catatonic state.
Joy is the story of the title character, who rose to become founder and matriarch of a powerful family business dynasty.
Billy, Paddy, Archie and Sam have been best friends since childhood. When Billy proposes to his much-younger girlfriend, they go to Vegas to relive their glory days. However, the decades have changed Sin City and tested their friendship.
When his mentor is taken captive by a disgraced Arab sheik, a killer-for-hire is forced into action. His mission: kill three members of Britain's elite Special Air Service responsible for his sons' deaths.
An aging thief hopes to retire and live off his ill-gotten wealth with his lover when a young kid convinces him into doing one last heist that comes with a large payout.
Right before his wedding, an uptight corporate lawyer is tricked into driving his grandfather, a lecherous former Army Lieutenant Colonel, to Florida for Spring Break.
Carl Brashear is an ambitious sharecropper who joins the U.S. Navy to become the world's first black master diver. But as he works through diving training, the racist Master Chief sets out to make Carl's journey as difficult as possible.
The Manzoni family, a notorious Mafia clan, is relocated to Normandy, France, under the Witness Protection Program, where fitting in soon becomes challenging as their old habits die hard.
A passionate yet unsuccessful comedian stalks and kidnaps his idol to take the spotlight for himself.
In New York City's Little Italy, a devoutly Catholic mobster must reconcile his desire for power, his feelings for his epileptic lover, and his devotion to his troublesome friend.
Family-patriarch Jack Byrnes wants to appoint a successor. Does his son-in-law, the male nurse Greg Focker, have what it takes?
The tumultuous early history of the Central Intelligence Agency is viewed through the prism of one man's life.
In 1955 New Orleans, small-time private investigator Harry Angel is hired by a man who calls himself Louis Cypher to track down a singer named Johnny Favorite, but the investigation takes an unexpected and somber turn.
A bounty hunter pursues a former Mafia accountant who is also being chased by a rival bounty hunter, the F.B.I., and his old mob boss after jumping bail.
Two veteran New York City detectives work on a case of serial executions of criminals who escaped justice.
Mobster Paul Vitti is released into Dr. Ben Sobol's care, where only more chaos ensues.