Robert De Niro is a legendary actor born on August 17, 1943 in New York City, NY. He has won two Academy Awards, one for Best Actor for his role as Jake LaMotta in the 1980 boxing film Raging Bull and one for Best Supporting Actor for his role as Vito Corleone in the 1974 classic The Godfather Part II. He has also starred in many other acclaimed films such as Taxi Driver, Cape Fear, Mean Streets and The Deer Hunter.Robert De Niro is a member of Movie Actor
Age, Biography and Wiki
Net worth: $150 million
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About
Legendary actor who won an Academy Award for Best Actor for his role as Jake LaMotta in the 1980 boxing film Raging Bull and an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role as Vito Corleone in the 1974 classic The Godfather Part II. His many other celebrated films include Taxi Driver, Cape Fear, Mean Streets and The Deer Hunter.
Before Fame
He played the Cowardly Lion in a production of The Wizard of Oz when he was 10. He earned his first movie role when Brian De Palma cast him in his film The Wedding Party. The film was shot when in 1963, when De Niro was 20 years old, then released six years later, in 1969.
Trivia
He originally auditioned for the roles of Michael Corleone and Sonny Corleone in The Godfather, and Director Francis Ford Coppola cited those original auditions as the inspiration for casting De Niro in The Godfather Part II.
Family Life
His father, Robert De Niro Sr., was an abstract Painter and Sculptor. He married Grace Hightower in 1997 after previously being married to Diahnne Abbot from 1976 to 1988. He has four sons and two daughters.
Associated With
He became a favorite actor of Director Martin Scorsese, who cast him in a number of films, including Mean Streets, Taxi Driver, Cape Fear and Raging Bull.
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