Robert De Niro's biography

Robert Anthony De Niro Jr. is 79 years old film director born at Greenwich Village. He was born on Tuesday 17th of August 1943. Robert is often nicknamed as Bob, Bobby Milk, Bobby D, Robert Mario De Niro Jr., Robert De Niro, Robert Mario De Niro, Robert Anthony De Niro Jr., Robert Henry De Niro Jr., Robert Anthony De Niro, Robert Henry De Niro, Robert De Niro Jr.. According to year of birth 1943 he belongs to Silent Generation. Birthday on 17th of August means he is Leo. As sign in itself indicates “Lion” or “King”, hence people born under Leo sign are considered to be leaders in every aspects of life. They are royal in nature.He was married 2 times.

Robert Anthony De Niro Jr.'s spouse

He is married to Grace Hightower

He is native english speaker. He is white american. He is citizen of United States of America. He is roman catholic. His primary profession is to be film director. You can know him also as film producer, film actor, voice actor, television producer, screenwriter, stage actor, actor, theatrical producer. He is recently known as manufacturer.

Robert De Niro's dad

Robert De Niro's father's name is Robert De Niro Sr.. He is known as painter. Robert´s father was born on Wednesday 3rd of May 1922 in Syracuse. Robert´s father died on Monday 3rd of May 1993 in New York City. Robert De Niro Sr. was 50 years old, when this happened.

Robert De Niro's mom

Robert De Niro's mother's name is Virginia Admiral. She is known as painter. His mother was born on Thursday 4th of February 1915 in The Dalles. Robert De Niro was born when she was 28 years old. Robert´s mother died on Thursday 20th of July 2000 in New York City. Virginia Admiral was 57 years old, when this happened.

Robert De Niro's family

Robert De Niro's wife

Grace is known as socialite. Robert´s wife was born on Thursday 7th of April 1955 in Kilmichael.

Robert De Niro's ex wifes

Diahnne Abbott

Robert De Niro and Diahnne Abbott have been together since 1976 for 12 years. She is known as actor. His ex wife was born on Monday 1st of January 1945 in New York City.

Robert has 4 sons and 1 daughter

Robert De Niro's son: Raphael De Niro

Robert De Niro's son's name is Raphael De Niro. He is known as actor. His son was born on Tuesday 9th of November 1976 in Los Angeles.

Robert De Niro's son: Aaron De Niro

Robert De Niro's son's name is Aaron De Niro. Robert´s son was born on Friday 20th of October 1995 in New York City.

Robert De Niro's son: Julian De Niro

Robert De Niro's son's name is Julian De Niro. He is known as actor. Robert´s son was born on Friday 20th of October 1995 in New York City.

Robert De Niro's son: Elliot De Niro

Robert De Niro's son's name is Elliot De Niro. His son was born on Wednesday 18th of March 1998 in New York City.

Robert De Niro's daughter: Drena De Niro

Robert De Niro's daughter's name is Drena De Niro. She is known as actor. His daughter was born on Friday 3rd of September 1971 in New York City.

Robert De Niro's schools

We found 6 schools He attended. Complete list of schools: Stella Adler Studio of Acting, Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute, Little Red School House, HB Studio, P.S. 41, Rhodes Preparatory School.

Detailed informations about Robert´s schools

He studied university - Stella Adler Conservatory, Manhattan, New York City, USA, Lee Strasberg Institute, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA.

Robert De Niro's career

Robert´s main focus is to be film director. He is famous thanks to Taxi Driver (1976).. Robert is also a member of American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Is Robert De Niro gay ?

Robert is known to be straight.

Robert De Niro's girlfriends

Toukie Smith

Robert De Niro and Toukie Smith have been together. She is known as actor. His girlfriend was born on Monday 25th of April 1955 in Philadelphia.

Charmaine Sinclair

Robert De Niro and Charmaine Sinclair have been together since 1993 for 2 years. She is known as pornographic actor. His girlfriend was born on Friday 23rd of April 1971.

Awards and competitions

Robert De Niro's Awards

He is the second actor to receive an Academy Award for portraying Vito Corleone. He and Marlon Brando were the first two actors to receive an Academy Award for playing the same character.
Was unable to accept his first Academy Award in 1975 due to filming commitments to Bernardo Bertolucci's 1900 (1976).
First performer to receive an Academy Award (for The Godfather: Part II (1974)) for a performance in a sequel.
Receive the Cecil B. DeMille Award at the Golden Globe Awards. [January 2011]
Read the book Raging Bull (1980) while filming The Godfather: Part II (1974). His roles in both films would win him an Academy Award.

Robert De Niro's Rankings

Ranked #78 in Premiere magazine's 2002 annual Power 100 List.
Ranked #1 in Empire (UK) magazine's "The Greatest Living Actor (Gods Among Us)" list. [October 2004]
In October 1997, he ranked #5 in Empire (UK) magazine's "The Top 100 Movie Stars of All Time" list. In 2005, Premiere magazine ranked him as #38 on a list of the Greatest Movie Stars of All Time in their Stars in Our Constellation feature.
His performance as Jake LaMotta in Raging Bull (1980) is ranked #10 on Premiere magazine's 100 Greatest Performances of All Time (2006).
His performance as Travis Bickle in Taxi Driver (1976) is ranked #42 on Premiere magazine's 100 Greatest Performances of All Time (2006).

Robert De Niro's Nominations

Robert was nominated for Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for work Silver Linings Playbook in 2012
Robert was nominated for Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor
He was nominated for Academy Award for Best Actor
He was nominated for Academy Award for Best Actor
Robert was nominated for Academy Award for Best Actor
He was nominated for Academy Award for Best Actor
He was nominated for Academy Award for Best Actor

What else you don't know about Robert De Niro ?

Robert´s middle name is Anthony.

What Robert De Niro has done for a first time

He is the second actor to receive an Academy Award for portraying Vito Corleone. He and Marlon Brando were the first two actors to receive an Academy Award for playing the same character.
He first discovered his love for acting at age 10 when he portrayed the Cowardly Lion in a local production of "The Wizard of Oz". He dropped out of high school to join a gang.
He organized the first Tribeca Film Festival in May 2002. He intended to revitalize the Lower Manhattan area after the September 11 attacks.
According to a profile in Vanity Fair's annual Hollywood issue, is the first actor to do a method interpretation of a cartoon character as Fearless Leader in The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle (2000).
Was unable to accept his first Academy Award in 1975 due to filming commitments to Bernardo Bertolucci's 1900 (1976).
First performer to receive an Academy Award (for The Godfather: Part II (1974)) for a performance in a sequel.
First guest to appear on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon (2009) on March 2, 2009.
Became a father for the first time at age 33 when his [now ex] wife Diahnne Abbott gave birth to their son Raphael De Niro on November 9, 1976.
Appeared on his first ever podcast as Michael Moore's guest on his newly launched "Rumble" podcast . The interview was conducted at De Niro's office in Lower Manhattan, New York (December 20, 2019).

Robert De Niro's quotes

It's important not to indicate. People don't try to show their feelings, they try to hide them.
I don't like to watch my own movies--I fall asleep in my own movies.
Don't talk it [shooting a scene] away, do it!
I go to Paris, I go to London, I go to Rome, and I always say, "There's no place like New York. It's the most exciting city in the world now. That's the way it is. That's it."
I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I had to decide early on wether I was to be an actor or a personality.
[on acting] The whole thing is for younger people who are sexy and youthful.
People treat me with a bit too much reverence. Look at Dustin Hoffman. I always envy the way he can speak and be smart and funny and so on. I just can't do that.
One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price.
I am part Italian, I'm not all Italian. I'm part Dutch, I'm part French, I'm part German, I'm part Irish. But my name is Italian and I probably identify more with my Italian side than with my other parts.
If there is a God, he has a lot to answer for. You'll have time to rest when you're dead.
After my first movies, I gave interviews. Then I thought, "What's so important about where I went to school, and hobbies? What does any of that have to do with acting, with my own head?".
There is a mixture of anarchy and discipline in the way I work. The talent is in the choices.
Some people say, "New York's a great place to visit, but I wouldn't want to live there." I say that about other places.
The hardest thing about being famous is that people are always nice to you. You're in a conversation and everybody's agreeing with what you're saying--even if you say something totally crazy. You need people who can tell you what you don't want to hear.
Money makes your life easier. If you're lucky to have it, you're lucky.
I only go to Los Angeles when I am paid for it.
Nobody has moved me from my seat yet. But, just in case, I've bought my own restaurants.
It is good to have a few other interests [restaurants, hotels, the TriBeca Film Festival]. But my main interest has always been movies--making them, directing them, being involved. I have never lost the passion for that.
[on Martin Scorsese] I wish I had that knowledge of movies that he has. He's like an encyclopedia. I could call him up and ask him about a certain movie, and he would know about it. He's seen everything, it's great.
[on the lengths he will go to disappear into a part] You don't just play a part. You've got to earn the right to play them.
[on Martin Scorsese] I really hope I get to do another movie with him again.
[on Angelina Jolie and Helen Mirren] She [Jolie] is my dream co-star and I love to work with her. It depends on the project [as to who would be] at the top of my list . . . wonderful actresses.
[on being cast in The Deer Hunter (1978)] I talked with the millworkers, drank and ate with them, played pool. I tried to become as close to being a steelworker as possible, and I would have worked a shift at the mill but they wouldn't let me.
I just can't fake acting. I know movies are an illusion, and maybe the first rule is to fake it, but not for me. I'm too curious. I want to deal with all the facts of the character, thin or fat.
When you're directing, you think of everything . . . The few times I've directed, if someone comes up with something you missed, you're glad to hear that.
I'm hoping that if things work out with digital technology, they can finally make us look younger and I can go on for another 40 years.
[on Parkland student activists] They're the ones that feel the way we do, not the way the gun lovers and the NRA do, with all that idiocy to the point of absurdity.
[on Donald J. Trump] If he was smart, he'd be even more dangerous. He's dangerous as it is. He's terrible, and a flat-out blatant racist and doubling down on that, and it's good that he does because he's going to sink himself.
I could play somebody who's a total lunatic. I could play somebody who's a member of the NRA. It doesn't mean I subscribe to that. That's what an actor does.
I am talking about my own country, the United States of America. We don't like to say we are a backward country so let's just say we're suffering from a case of temporary insanity.
Our government today, with the propping of the baby-in-chief [President Donald J. Trump]--the jerk-off-in-chief, I call him--has put the press under siege, ridiculing it through trying to discredit it through outrageous attacks and lies.
Everyone knows [Charles Chaplin] was a great artist, but he made his movies to entertain. It was only later that they became art.
One thing that there should be is some regulation of guns. It's crazy how almost anyone can get access to a gun. That itself is not so good.
The movie gave us glimpses of President Nixon as delusional, narcissistic, petty, vindictive, nasty and bat shit fucking crazy. Ah, the good old days.
[on Donald J. Trump, before receiving a standing ovation at the 2018 Tony awards] I wanna say one thing: fuck Trump, It's no longer "Down with Trump", it's "fuck Trump".
Sadly, in my country, we are going through a grotesque version of nationalism ... marked by greed, xenophobia and selfishness under the banner of "America First".
Yeah, I worry, and one of my kids is gay, and he worries about being treated a certain way. We talk about it.
[on Donald Trump] I never had an interest in meeting him. He's a buffoon. If he walked into a restaurant that I was in, I would leave. I would not want to be there.
Even gangsters have morals-they have ethics, they have a code, and you know, when you give somebody your word that's all you have is your word, especially in that world.
[on Barack Obama] I felt we were on a new thing. I didn't realise how against him certain people were - racially against him, offended that he was there.
You can feel the history, the echo of the entertainers. In this administration, during these disturbing times of promoting racism, tonight, we reject it. No you don't, not here, not on this stage.
[on Donald Trump] That's what I said right after he was elected, 'Give him a chance.' I give everybody the benefit of the doubt. This guy has proven himself to be a total loser.
Today, we have a weird, twisted president who thinks he's a gangster, who's not even a very good gangster ... Gangsters have honor, you shake a hand and they have your word and you have theirs and that's it. But with this guy, it's not the case.
Oh, I can't wait to see him in jail. I don't want him to die, I want him to go to jail.
[on the Trump administration's coronavirus response] It's appalling. I have no words for it anymore. I'm just completely nonplussed, dumbfounded, confounded. I don't know what this guy - it's crazy.
[an advise to young actors] You've got to really love what you do. Don't expect to be famous -- do it because you really love doing it and have fun doing it.
It's one thing to have a good book but the script is the key. If it's not on the page, it's not on the stage. You want to see the script to figure out what the sensibility is, what the project is about.

Robert De Niro's height, body shape, eye color

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