Robert Anthony De Niro born August 17 1943 is an American actor Known for his collaborations with Martin Scorsese he is considered to be one of the best actors of his generation De Niro is the recipient of various accolades including two Academy Awards a Golden Globe Award the Cecil B DeMille Award and a Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award In 2009 De Niro received the Kennedy Center Honor and earned a Presidential Medal of Freedom from US President Barack Obama in 2016 De Niro studied acting at HB Studio Stella Adler Conservatory and Lee Strasbergs Actors Studio His first collaboration with Scorsese was with the 1973 film Mean Streets De Niro earned two Academy Awards one for Best Supporting Actor for his role as Vito Corleone in Francis Ford Coppolas The Godfather Part II 1974 and the other for Best Actor portraying Jake LaMotta in Scorseses drama Raging Bull 1980 His other Oscarnominated roles were for Taxi Driver 1976 The Deer Hunter 1978 Awakenings 1990 Cape Fear 1991 and Silver Linings Playbook 2012 Other notable roles include in 1900 1976 The King of Comedy 1982 Once Upon a Time in America 1984 Brazil 1985 The Mission 1986 Goodfellas 1990 This Boys Life 1993 Mary Shelleys Frankenstein 1994 Heat 1995 Casino 1995 Jackie Brown 1997 The Good Shepherd 2006 Joker 2019 and The Irishman 2019 He made his directorial film debut with A Bronx Tale 1993 His comedic roles include Midnight Run 1988 Wag the Dog 1997 Analyze This 1999 the Meet the Parents films 20002010 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 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or Movie nomination 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 Live1 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 Six of De Niros films have been inducted into the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as culturally historically or aesthetically significant
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