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Robert De Niro Biography

(1943–)

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2006 The Good Shepherd
2006 Arthur et les Minimoys
2005 Hide and Seek
2004 The Bridge of San Luis Rey
2004 Meet the Fockers
2004 Shark Tale (voice)
2004 Godsend
2002 Analyze That
2002 City by the Sea
2002 Showtime
2001 The Score
2001 15 Minutes
2000 Meet the Parents
2000 Men of Honor
2000 The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle
1999 Flawless
1999 Analyze This
1998 Ronin
1998 Great Expectations
1997 Jackie Brown
1997 Wag the Dog
1997 Cop Land
1997 Marvin's Room
1996 Sleepers
1996 The Fan
1995 Heat
1995 Casino
1994 Frankenstein
1993 A Bronx Tale
1993 This Boy's Life
1993 Mad Dog and Glory
1992 Night and the City
1992 Mistress
1991 Cape Fear
1991 Backdraft
1991 Guilty by Suspicion
1990 Awakenings
1990 Goodfellas
1990 Stanley & Iris
1989 We're No Angels
1989 Jacknife
1988 Midnight Run
1987 The Untouchables
1987 Angel Heart
1986 The Mission
1985 Brazil
1984 Falling in Love
1984 Once Upon a Time in America
1982 The King of Comedy
1981 True Confessions
1980 Raging Bull
1979 The Swap
1978 The Deer Hunter
1977 New York, New York
1976 The Last Tycoon
1976 Novecento
1976 Taxi Driver
1973 Mean Streets
1973 Bang the Drum Slowly
1971 The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight
1971 Born to Win
1971 Jennifer on My Mind
1970 Hi, Mom!
1970 Bloody Mama
1969 The Wedding Party
1969 Sam's Song
1968 Greetings
1965 Trois chambres à Manhattan

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(born Aug. 17, 1943, New York, N.Y., U.S.) American actor famous for his uncompromising portrayals of violent and abrasive characters.

The son of two Greenwich Village artists, De Niro dropped out of school at age 16 to study at the Stella Adler Conservatory of Acting. After working in a few Off-Off-Broadway plays, he appeared in his first film, Brian De Palma's The Wedding Party (1963, released 1969). During the next four years he appeared in several minor films, the most notable being The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight (1971). It was not until his performance in Bang the Drum Slowly (1973) that he was widely recognized as an excellent actor. Mean Streets (1973) marked De Niro's first association with director Martin Scorsese, with whom he would do some of his most celebrated work. Director Francis Ford Coppola, whose massively popular The Godfather (1972) had won the best picture Oscar, was so impressed by De Niro in Mean Streets that he offered the actor the part of young Vito Corleone in The Godfather, Part II (1974), forgoing even a screen test. De Niro's brilliant take on the part that was created by Marlon Brando in the first Godfather film earned him a best supporting actor Oscar and made him an international star.

Following The Godfather, Part II, De Niro worked with some of the cinema's most noted directors in such films as Bernardo Bertolucci's 1900 (1976), Elia Kazan's The Last Tycoon (1976), and Michael Cimino's The Deer Hunter (1978), the last one receiving the Oscar for best picture. But it was his films with Scorsese for which De Niro acquired a reputation for masterfully portraying extremely dark and unappealing figures. He received an Oscar nomination for his role as the isolated and violent Travis Bickle in Taxi Driver (1976) and won the best actor Oscar for his portrayal of boxer Jake La Motta in Raging Bull (1980). Known for his intense role preparation, De Niro spent weeks driving a taxi in New York City before filming Taxi Driver, and he gained more than 50 pounds (about 23 kg) to portray La Motta. By the end of the 1970s, he was widely considered one of the best actors of his generation.