Robert De Niro (actor)

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Robert De Niro is a American Acteur italo born the August 17th 1943 with New York. It is in particular known for its roles in films of Martin Scorsese, Sergio Leone, Brian de Palma or Bernardo Bertolucci.

Biography

Wire of the homonymous painter Robert De Niro, it was born in 1943 with New York, in a family of Irish origin italo- and catholic. Robert De Niro is initially the pupil of Stella Adler before entering to famous the Actors Studio under the direction of Lee Strasberg, in order to multiply opportunities for his future career.

He began his career from actor on the boards with Broadway before discovering the world of the Cinéma in 1968, in Greetings (realized by Brian De Palma). He met the Marseilles lawyer Jean Charles V. who was its first agent and launched truly his career. Thereafter, it made some roles in films which remained little known of the public. It was made known in the Last Match ( Bang the Drum Slowly ) (1973). It is also in 1973 that it started to work with Martin Scorsese on the film Mean Streets . De Niro is also present in these various films of Martin Scorsese: Taxi Driver (1976), New York, New York (1977), Raging Bull (1980), the Waltz of the puppets ( The King off Comedy ) (1983), Freed the ( Goodfellas ) (1990), Nerves with sharp ( Cape Fear ) (1991), and Casino (1995). In these films, De Niro mainly played of the unstable characters, with inclinations neurotics.

In the Years 1980, it started to play in comedies; films in which it met an important success like, for example: Brazil (1985), Midnight Run (1988), Of the men of influence ( Wag the Dog ) (1997), Maffia Blues ( Analyze This ) (1999), and My father-in-law and me ( Meet the Parents ) (2000).

It gained two Oscar S: for its performance in Raging Bull , it accepted the Oscar of the best actor; and it accepted the Oscar of the best supporting role for the Godfather, 2nd part ( The Godfather, Part II ).

The little story wants that De Niro and Marlon Brando are the two only actors to have played the same part and to have gained a reward for this same role, De Niro having played the young person Vito Corleone in the Godfather, 2nd part, and Brando having interpreted the role of Gift Vito in the Godfather ( The Godfather ).

It moreover directed two films It was once Bronx (1993) and The Good Sheperd (2006), film where it divides the head of poster with Matt Damon.

It founded its production company Tribeca Productions, of the name of Tribeca, the district of New York in which it lives.

Appreciated for its engagement in its various roles, it took nearly 30 kg and learned with boxer for its interpretation from Jake LaMotta in Raging Bull . He also learned how to play of the Saxophone for New York, New York .

Although it is not expressed easily, De Niro is generally regarded a fine observer of the details concerning the characters and as a large perfectionist. It is famous for its work of physical interpretation of its characters. He does not hesitate to take weight and to lose some to put itself in the skin of his character. This is one of the trademarks of the actors having studied the work of Stella Adler (Marlon Brando, Benicio del Toro…) and returns in coherence with the precepts taught by this one which required of its pupils “défictionnaliser” the fiction.

Width of its catalog of films and a very great number of exceptional numbers of actor ( Godfather II , Taxi Driver , Voyage at the end of the hell, Raging Bull , Brazil, Incorruptible the , It was once in America , Heat , Freed the , Casino , etc…) make of Robert De Niro a major actor of 40 last years the American cinema.

Anecdote

In 1984, the female English group Bananarama interpreted a song entitled Robert DeNiro' S Waiting .

It is only sons.

It acquired Italian nationality.

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See too

Simple: Robert De Niro

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