Robert De Niro

Acting · 7.3 popularity

Age

Movies

224

Born: August 17, 1943
From: Greenwich Village, New York City, New York, USA

Biography

Robert Anthony De Niro (born August 17, 1943) is an American actor and film producer. Considered one of his generation's greatest and most influential actors, De Niro has received various accolades, including two Academy Awards and a Golden Globe Award, as well as nominations for eight BAFTA Awards and four Emmy Awards. He was honoured with the AFI Life Achievement Award in 2003, the Kennedy Center Honors in 2009, the Cecil B. DeMille Award in 2011, and the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award in 2019. De Niro was presented with the Presidential Medal of Freedom by U.S. President Barack Obama in 2016. De Niro studied acting at HB Studio, Stella Adler Conservatory, and Lee Strasberg's Actors Studio. His first credited screen role was in Brian de Palma's Greetings (1968). De Niro's first collaboration with Martin Scorsese was with the crime drama film Mean Streets (1973). De Niro has earned two Academy Awards: one for Best Supporting Actor for his role as Vito Corleone in Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather Part II (1974) and the other for Best Actor portraying Jake LaMotta in Scorsese's drama Raging Bull (1980). De Niro was also Oscar-nominated for Taxi Driver (1976), The Deer Hunter (1978), Awakenings (1990), Cape Fear (1991), Silver Linings Playbook (2012), and Killers of the Flower Moon (2023). He is also known for his film roles in Bang the Drum Slowly (1973), 1900 (1976), The King of Comedy (1982), Once Upon a Time in America(1984), Brazil (1985), The Mission (1986), Angel Heart (1987), The Untouchables (1987), Goodfellas (1990), This Boy's Life (1993), Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1994), Heat (1995), Casino (1995), Jackie Brown (1997), Joker (2019), and The Irishman (2019). He directed and acted in A Bronx Tale (1993) and The Good Shepherd (2006). His comedic roles include Hi, Mom! (1970), Midnight Run (1988), Wag the Dog (1997), Analyze This (1999) and its sequel, Analyze That (2002), the Meet the Parents films (2000–2010), and The Intern (2015). Also known for his television roles, De Niro portrayed Bernie Madoff in the HBO film The Wizard of Lies (2017), earning a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or Movie. He received further Emmy Award nominations for producing the Netflix limited series When They See Us (2019) and for portraying Robert Mueller on Saturday Night Live. De Niro and producer Jane Rosenthal founded the film and television production company TriBeCa Productions in 1989, which has produced several films alongside his own. Also with Rosenthal, he founded the Tribeca Film Festival in 2002. Many of De Niro's films are considered classics of American cinema. Six of De Niro's films have been inducted into the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" as of 2023. Five films are featured on the American Film Institute's (AFI) list of the 100 greatest American films ever. Timeout magazine's list of 100 best movies included seven of De Niro's films, as chosen by actors in the industry.

Works

224 films

The Godfather Part II

19748.6

Joker

20198.1

GoodFellas

19908.5

Taxi Driver

19768.1

Once Upon a Time in America

19848.4

Heat

19957.9

Killers of the Flower Moon

20237.4

Cape Fear

19917.3

The Intern

20157.2

Shark Tale

20046.0

A Bronx Tale

19937.9

The Irishman

20197.6

Limitless

20117.2

Casino

19958.0

The Untouchables

19877.8

The Deer Hunter

19788.0

Meet the Fockers

20046.3

Sleepers

19967.6

Jackie Brown

19977.4

Silver Linings Playbook

20127.2

Brazil

19857.7

Little Fockers

20105.7

Raging Bull

19807.9

Meet the Parents

20006.7

Stardust

20077.3

American Hustle

20136.9

Arthur and the Invisibles

20066.4

The Family

20136.4

The Score

20016.7

Men of Honor

20007.5

Dirty Grandpa

20165.9

Analyze This

19996.5

Midnight Run

19887.2

Last Vegas

20136.4

Ronin

19987.0

Cop Land

19976.8

This Boy's Life

19937.1

Awakenings

19907.8

Machete

20106.3

The Good Shepherd

20066.4

Angel Heart

19877.1

Tin Soldier

20254.8

The Mission

19867.4

Killer Elite

20116.3

Backdraft

19916.7

Red Lights

20126.2

The King of Comedy

19827.8

New Year's Eve

20115.9

Mean Streets

19737.0

The War with Grandpa

20206.4

Focker-in-Law

2026

Analyze That

20025.8

15 Minutes

20015.9

About My Father

20236.0

Amsterdam

20226.1

Grudge Match

20136.1

The Alto Knights

20256.2

Hide and Seek

20056.4

Righteous Kill

20085.9

Great Expectations

19986.6

Killing Season

20135.5

Joy

20156.6

The Fan

19966.0

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

19946.4

Wag the Dog

19976.9

The Big Wedding

20135.8

Marvin's Room

19966.7

Showtime

20025.6

The Wizard of Lies

20176.6

Everybody's Fine

20096.8

Guilty by Suspicion

19916.5

Heist

20156.1

1900

19767.8

The Comeback Trail

20205.8

The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle

20004.3

Savage Salvation

20226.1

The Whisper Man

2026

Stone

20105.3

Hands of Stone

20166.6

Sly

20237.2

New York, New York

19776.5

Falling in Love

19846.7

Hi, Mom!

19706.3

The Bag Man

20145.3

What Just Happened

20085.4

Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen

20127.5

Ezra

20246.9

We're No Angels

19896.2

Being Flynn

20126.1

Junket Whore

19985.0

Jackie Brown: How It Went Down

20027.7

SNL50: The Homecoming Concert

20256.4

Flawless

19996.2

ABCinema

19756.0

Freelancers

20125.1

Mad Dog and Glory

19936.0

David Blaine: Real or Magic

20136.8

The Godfather Trilogy: 1901-1980

19928.9

Breakdown: 1975

20256.8

The Ages of Love

20115.3

City by the Sea

20025.8

SNL Presents: A Very Gilly Christmas

20097.4

Greetings

19685.5

Stanley & Iris

19906.5

Scorsese's GoodFellas

20158.3

Fahrenheit 9/11

20047.1

Corman's World

20117.0

Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project

20076.8

True Confessions

19816.1

The Last Tycoon

19766.3

Jacknife

19896.4

The Godfather Family: A Look Inside

19907.8

The Man Who Saved the World

20146.8

Bloody Mama

19705.5

The Godfather: The Complete Epic 1901–1959

20169.0

Godsend

20044.9

Albert Brooks: Defending My Life

20237.2

Yellow Door: '90s Lo-fi Film Club

20236.9

One Hundred and One Nights

19956.1

The Concert for New York City

20015.1

537 Votes

20207.1

Marty and Bobby

2011

The Words That Built America

20176.0

Mistress

19925.5

Night and the City

19925.8

Morceaux de Cannes

20212.0

Father of the Bride Part 3 (ish)

20207.5

The Comedian

20165.7

Night of 100 Stars II

19856.8

Three Rooms in Manhattan

19656.1

The Beaches of Agnès

20087.7

The Bridge of San Luis Rey

20045.2

Trespassing Bergman

20136.6

Crazy, Not Insane

20207.2

Sesame Street: 40 Years of Sunny Days

2010

Born to Win

19715.3

Tony Bennett Celebrates 90

20168.0

I Am JFK Jr.

20166.0

The Past Goes Fast

2022

Megadoc

20256.5

Making 'Taxi Driver'

19997.0

The Swap

19793.7

Getting Made: The Making of 'GoodFellas'

20046.0

9/11

20027.9

The Cinema According to Bertolucci

19767.0

The Irishman: In Conversation

20197.5

Night of 100 Stars

19825.8

Tony Bennett: An American Classic

20067.7

Martin Scorsese Directs

19909.0

Hollywood Mavericks

19907.3

Don Rickles: One Night Only

20147.6

The Audition

20156.2

Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood

20037.1

The Making of 'Cape Fear'

20017.4

The Randall Scandal: Love, Loathing, and Vanderpump

20235.5

I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale

20096.9

Ronin: Filming in the Fast Lane

2004

Bang the Drum Slowly

19736.1

Close Up

20129.5

Aretha Franklin: Duets

19938.3

Comedy Central Roast of Alec Baldwin

20197.0

Miracle Rising: South Africa

20138.5

Blast 'Em

19927.0

The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight

19715.2

The Making of Moonwalker

1989

Alec Baldwin: One Night Only

2017

Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam

19877.1

Hello Actors Studio

19886.7

Raging Bull: Inside the Ring

20059.0

Sergio Leone: The Italian Who Invented America

20227.4

Python Legs!

2012

Quentin Tarantino: From a Movie Buff to a Hollywood Legend

20215.0

Young Wolves

19684.4

Sam's Song

19695.4

Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict

20156.5

Casting By

20126.9

GoodFellas: Behind Closed Doors

2020

Hot Potato: The Story of The Wiggles

20238.1

Prisoners of Our Own History: The First Four Films of Roland Joffé

2022

Jim Norton: Mouthful of Shame

20176.4

Elia Kazan: An Outsider

19826.8

Henry Fonda for President

20257.0

The Wedding Party

19694.4

Club Oscar

20055.1

Raging Bull: After the Fight

20058.0

De Niro vs. La Motta: Shot for Shot

2005

Making 'The Irishman'

20207.0

Behind Bars: The Making of Stone

201110.0

Fuck Coin

2021

I Am Durán

20196.9

Raging Bull: Outside the Ring

20058.0

Raging Bull: Before the Fight

200510.0

The Making of 'Heat'

20056.3

A Shot at the Top: The Making of 'The King of Comedy'

20029.0

National Museum of African American History and Culture Grand Opening Ceremony

20165.5

Making "The Score"

2001

Ellis

20156.6

The 'New York, New York' Stories

200510.0

American Prince: JFK Jr.

2025

Breslin and Hamill: Deadline Artists

20187.1

Le Cirque: A Table in Heaven

20075.5

The Collaboration of a Lifetime: Scorsese's Epic The Irishman

20207.0

It's Alive: The True Story of Frankenstein

19947.7

9/11: 10 Years Later

20117.8

Raging Bull: Marty & Bobby

2011

Taxi Driver: 40th Anniversary Cast Q&A

2016

Jennifer on My Mind

19713.6

You Talkin' to Me?

19947.0

Lenny Bruce: Swear to Tell the Truth

19987.7

Movies Are My Life

19886.8

Pacino and De Niro: The Conversation

20056.0

De Niro, New York

2026

God's Lonely Man

20076.0

Il segreto di Otello

2015

Inside Rupert Pupkin

2014

After Exile

2026

Raging Bull: Reflections on a Classic

2011

Making Casino

2007

Remembering the Artist: Robert De Niro, Sr.

20145.0

Son of Greetings

1970

News from Taxi Driver

2019

Nobu

20256.2

Influence And Appreciation: A Martin Scorsese Tribute

20075.0

Ennio Morricone

19956.8