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Robert Anthony De Niro, Jr. (born August 17, 1943), also known as Robert De Niro, is a famous American actor and producer. He is best known for his nine films with director Martin Scorsese.
He has received numerous honors, including two Academy Awards, a Golden Globe Award, a Cecil B. DeMille Award, a Screen Actors Guild Lifetime Achievement Award, and other recognitions.
Robert De Niro was awarded the Kennedy Center Honors in 2009, and in 2016, President Barack Obama awarded him the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
American actor
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 Robert De Niro: History, Biography, Photos |
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| full name: | Robert Anthony De Niro Jr. |
| stage name: | Robert De Niro |
| date of birth: | August 17, 1943 (80 years old) |
| place of birth: | Greenwich Village, New York, USA |
| Country of Citizenship: | American |
| high: | 1.77 m |
| parents: | Robert De Niro Sr., Virginia Admiral |
| brothers and sisters: | Joan De Niro, John De Niro |
| Wife • Spouse: | Grace Hightower (m. 1997-2018), Diane Abbott (m. 1976-1988) |
| Girlfriend • Partner: | Beatrice Marlott (1996), Stephanie Adams (1993), Naomi Campbell (1993-1999), Charmaine Sinclair (1993-1995), Touki Smith (1988-1996), Gillian de Turville (1984), Helena Springs (1979-1982), Leigh Taylor-Young (1971-1974), Karen Duffy |
| children: | Drena De Niro, Helen Grace De Niro, Julian Henry De Niro, Rafael De Niro, Elliott De Niro, Aaron Kendrick De Niro |
| Profession: | Actor • Television personality |
| net worth: | $520 million |
Early life and education
Robert De Niro was born in New York City, USA on August 17, 1943. His father, Robert De Niro Sr., is a poet, painter and sculptor. His mother, Virginia Admiral, is also an art salesperson.
His parents ran a salon in Greenwich Village that was popular among intellectuals and artists. They divorced when their children were very young. Robert De Niro was introverted and his face became haggard after entering puberty. He has a brother named John De Niro and a sister named Joan De Niro.
Growing up in Little Italy, he was known as Bobby Milk because of his pale complexion, and at age ten he made his first stage appearance as the Cowardly Lion in a local version of The Wizard of Oz.
Robert De Niro attended PS 41, a public elementary school in Manhattan, until the sixth grade. At the age of 10, he made his school debut as the Cowardly Lion in The Wizard of Oz after receiving acting training at the Drama Studio. He later attended Elizabeth Irving High School in the Little Red Schoolhouse for seventh and eighth grades.
Robert De Niro was then admitted to the High School of Music and Art for the ninth grade, but he stayed there only for a short time before transferring to the public junior high school IS 71 (Charles Evans Hughes Junior High School). He received his high school education at McBurney School and Rhodes Preparatory School.
He found acting as a way to overcome his shyness and developed a strong interest in film, so he dropped out of school at the age of 16 to pursue acting. He continued his acting studies at HB Studio and Lee Strasberg’s Actors Studio.
Robert De Niro also earned a degree from the Stella Adler Conservatory of Music, where he was exposed to Stanislavski’s teaching methods.
As a young actor he was influenced by the performances of Marlon Brando, Montgomery Clift, James Dean, Greta Garbo, Geraldine Page and Kim Stanley, among others.
Profession
Robert De Niro’s first paid role was in Anton Chekhov’s The Bear when he was 16. He was obsessed with acting. He missed graduating from high school by just a few credits and studied method acting under Lee Strasberg and Stella Adler. He spent the next 14 years acting off-Broadway, in dinner theaters, on tour, and occasionally in TV commercials and shorts. His film career began under the direction of Brian De Palma.
The Wedding Party, Greetings, and Hello, Mom! were all unknown, low-budget films that he cast young New Yorkers in. Robert De Niro played the main character of a draft dodger in the film Greetings. Actress Shelley Winters quickly took him in as her own. She helped him land a role in the low-budget film Bloody Mom, directed by Roger Corman. He played Mama Buck, one of the notorious serial killers. Robert De Niro spent weeks in the Ozark Mountains practicing his Arkansas dialect as part of his preparation.
He then starred in several critically acclaimed films, such as Jennifer on My Mind, Born to Win, and The Gangster Who Can’t Shoot. Although the film received poor reviews, some critics began to recognize his outstanding performance. Robert De Niro, who was 30 years old at the time, finally received global acclaim in 1973 with two outstanding performances. In Slowly Beat the Drum, he played a baseball player on the verge of death.
Robert De Niro was not athletic and had never played baseball, but through relentless preparation, close observation of real and fictional players, and reading baseball books, he created a convincing performance. Later that year, in Mean Streets, Robert De Niro played a neurotic, hot-tempered teenage hooligan, the first of many collaborations with director Martin Scorsese, who was also his age growing up on New York’s Lower East Side. His performance was remarkably authentic. According to biographer David Thomson, the image looked like a hooligan who had walked off the street, as if to announce how out of control he was.
Robert De Niro played the young Vito Corleone in Francis Ford Coppola’s hugely successful film The Godfather: Part II in 1974. He spent weeks learning the Sicilian dialect and tried to imitate the accent and mannerisms of Marlon Brando, who played the older Corleone in the first Godfather film.
Film critic Pauline Kael believed that Robert De Niro was perfect for the role of young Brando because he possessed the physical courage, grace, and intuition necessary to be a successful actor. He won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for this breakthrough performance, in which he used only 17 words of English. He continued to receive critical acclaim for his role as taxi driver Travis Bickle in Martin Scorsese’s Taxi Driver in 1976. Robert De Niro lost 35 pounds and frequently listened to the diary recordings of killer Arthur Bremer, who shot presidential candidate George Wallace in 1972, to prepare for the role.
He also obtained a provisional driver’s license and drove a taxi in New York for a few weeks. The controversial film is revered for Robert De Niro’s courageous, unsettling performance. David Thomson believes that his refusal to oversimplify is the essence of his performance. He never chooses wizards or sacred beasts.
The long, stand-alone sequence creates a confessional atmosphere for the audience. Robert De Niro improvised the scene, playing with a gun and practicing his bluff in front of a mirror. He then attempts the iconic line: “Are you talking to me?” This phrase has become a common phrase in the United States and has since become a symbol of white male anger and an attitude that is tired and will not stand it anymore.
personal life
In 1976, Robert De Niro married actress Diane Abbott. Their son, Rafael De Niro, is their only child. He was an actor and now works in real estate in New York. In addition, he also adopted Diane Abbott’s child from her previous marriage, Drena De Niro. In 1988, he divorced Diane Abbott. After that, he had a relationship with model Tuki Smith from 1988 to 1996.
Robert De Niro’s twin sons, Julian Henry De Niro and Aaron Kendrick De Niro, were born in 1995 through a surrogate mother through in vitro fertilization.
He married actress Grace Hightower in 1997. Their son, Elliott De Niro, was born in 1998, and the couple separated in 1999. As their divorce was never fully resolved, they renewed their vows in 2004. Their daughter, Helen Grace De Niro, was born via surrogacy in December 2011. In 2014, he and Grace Hightower moved into a 6,000 square foot, five-bedroom apartment at 15 Central Park West.
Four years later, Robert De Niro and Grace Hightower announced the end of their 20-year marriage. Robert De Niro has four grandchildren, one grandson through daughter Drena De Niro and three grandchildren through son Rafael De Niro.
In a fictitious divorce proceeding presided over by a Manhattan judge on April 19, 2021, Robert De Niro’s attorney claimed his client was working at an untenable pace to support Hightower and repay all of his past tax debts. “Grace Hightower’s attorneys claim that Robert De Niro has unfairly reduced her agreed-upon compensation since the couple filed for divorce in 2018.
Robert De Niro has dated Beatrice Marotte (1996), Stephanie Adams (1993), Naomi Campbell (1993-1999), Charmaine Sinclair (1993-1995), Touki Smith (1988-1996), Gillian Detwiler (1984), Helena Springs (1979-1982), Leigh Taylor-Young (1971-1974), and Karen Duffy. His children are Drena De Niro, Helen Grace De Niro, Julian Henry De Niro, Rafael De Niro, Elliot De Niro, and Aaron Kendrick De Niro.
Filmography
Robert De Niro has been a prolific director since the 1970s. Film review site Rotten Tomatoes lists some of his most popular films:
- Beat the Drum Slowly (1973)
- Mean Streets (1973)
- The Godfather Part II (1974)
- Taxi Driver (1976)
- The Deer Hunter (1978)
- Raging Bull (1980)
- The King of Comedy (1983)
- Once Upon a Time in America (1984)
- Brazil (1985)
- Church (1986)
- Midnight Run (1988).
net worth
Various internet sources such as Wikipedia, Forbes, IMDB, etc. estimate Robert De Niro’s net worth to be $520 million. He is considered the best American actor in the world.
