Robert De Niro Net Worth, Age, Wife, Movies, Profile, Biography & More

Robert Anthony De Niro Jr. known Robert De Niro was born August 17, 1943 is an American actor, producer and director. He is particularly known for his nine collaborations with filmmaker Martin Scorsese and has received several accolades, including two Oscars, 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 received a Presidential Medal of Freedom from US President Barack Obama in 2016.

Born in Manhattan, New York, De Niro studied theater at HB Studio, Stella Adler Conservatory and Lee Strasberg’s Actors Studio. His first major role was in Greetings (1968), and was recognized with his role as a baseball player in the sports drama Bang the Drum Slowly (1973), he won an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in David O. The 2012 Romantic Comedy from Russell Silver Linings Playbook. In 2017, De Niro portrayed Bernie Madoff in The Wizard of Lies, earning a Primetime Emmy nomination. He went on to star in the psychological thriller Joker and Scorsese’s criminal epic The Irishman (both in 2019).

De Niro and producer Jane Rosenthal founded film and television production company TriBeCa Productions in 1989, which produced several films alongside his own. Also with Rosenthal, he founded the Tribeca Film Festival in 2002. Six of De Niro’s films have been inducted into the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being “culturally, historically or aesthetically significant”.

De Niro married actress Diahnne Abbott in 1976. They have a son, Raphael, a former actor who works in real estate in New York. De Niro also adopted Abbott’s daughter, Drena De Niro, from a previous relationship. He and Abbott divorced in 1988. Thereafter, he was in a relationship with model Toukie Smith between 1988 and 1996. De Niro has twin sons, Julian and Aaron, conceived by in vitro fertilization and brought into the world by a mother. carrier in 1995.

In 1997, De Niro married actress Grace Hightower. Their son, Elliot, was born in 1998 and the couple separated in 1999. The divorce was never finalized and in 2004 they renewed their vows. In December 2011, their daughter was born by surrogate mother. In 2014, he and Hightower moved into a 6,000-square-foot five-bedroom apartment at 15 Central Park West. Four years later, it was reported that De Niro and Hightower had separated after 20 years of marriage

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