Robert De Niro

Robert De Niro is an American actor, producer, and director. He is particularly known for his collaborations with filmmaker Martin Scorsese, and 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 received a Presidential Medal of Freedom from U.S. President Barack Obama in 2016.

De Niro first gained fame for his role in Bang the Drum Slowly in 1973, but he gained his reputation as a volatile actor in Mean Streets, which was his first film with director Martin Scorsese. He received an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in The Godfather Part II and received Academy Award nominations for Best Actor in Taxi Driver, The Deer Hunter and Cape Fear. He also received the Academy Award for Best Actor for his role as Jake LaMotta in Raging Bull.

De Niro has earned four Golden Globe Award nominations for Best Actor - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy, for his work in New York, New York, opposite Liza Minnelli, Midnight Run, Analyze This and Meet the Parents. In 2023, he starred in About My Father and Killers of the Flower Moon. De Niro received a nomination for Best Actor in a Supporting Role at the 96th Academy Awards for his performance in Killers of the Flower Moon.

Also known for his television roles, De Niro portrayed Bernie Madoff in the HBO film "The Wizard of Lies," 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," 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. 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."