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
As a widower tries to piece together his life in the wake of his wife's suicide, his daughter finds solace, at first, in her imaginary friend.
Shortly before an election, a spin-doctor and a Hollywood producer join efforts to fabricate a war in order to cover up a Presidential sex scandal.
Two feuding siblings carrying on a heroic family tradition as Chicago firefighters. But when a puzzling series of arson attacks is reported, they are forced to set aside their differences to solve the mystery surrounding these crimes.
Psychologist Margaret Matheson and her assistant debunk paranormal activity, which leads them to investigate a world-renowned psychic who has resurfaced after many years out of the limelight following the suspicious death of his toughest critic.
Eighteenth-century Spanish Jesuits try to protect a remote South American tribe in danger of falling under the rule of pro-slavery Portugal.
A spoof of buddy cop movies where two very different cops are forced to team up on a new reality based television cop show, while tracking down the manufacturer and distributor of an illegally made semi-automatic firearm.
A widower who realized his only connection to his family was through his wife sets off on an impromptu road trip to reunite with each of his grown children.
A pair of aging boxing rivals are coaxed out of retirement to fight one final bout, thirty years after their last match.
When the brilliant but unorthodox scientist Dr. Victor Frankenstein rejects the artificial man that he has created, the Creature escapes and later swears revenge.
The story about the relationship between a rebellious 1950s teenager and his abusive stepfather, based on the memoirs of writer and literature Professor Tobias Wolff.
A long-divorced couple fakes being married as their family unites for a wedding.
A homicide detective and a fire marshal must stop a pair of murderers who commit videotaped crimes to become media darlings.
An all-star baseball player becomes the unhealthy focus of an obsessive salesman.
A convicted arsonist looks to manipulate a parole officer into a plan to secure his parole by placing his beautiful wife in the lawman's path.
Two veterans of the Bosnian War, one American, one Serbian, find their unlikely friendship tested when one of them reveals their true intentions.
A father is without the means to pay for his daughter's medical treatment. As a last resort, he partners with a greedy co-worker to rob a casino. When things go awry they're forced to hijack a city bus.
Two weeks in the life of a fading Hollywood producer who's having a rough time trying to get his new picture made.
The epic tale of a class struggle in twentieth-century Italy as seen through the eyes of two childhood friends on opposing sides.
Vincent Lamarca, whose father was executed for a 1950s kidnapping of a child, grew up to become a police officer, only to see his own son become a murder suspect.
