Robert De Niro
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| Robert De Niro | |
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August 17, 1943, New York | |
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Young Vito Corleone |
Along with Al Pacino, Robert De Niro is widely regarded as one of the world's best actors.
Born in New York in 1943, Robert De Niro was born to an Irish/Italian painter and a French/German mother who also painted. His first film role was in Brian De Palma's The Wedding Party and followed it up with several character roles, before auditioning for the role of Sonny Corleone in The Godfather: Part I. He was actually given the role of Paulie Gatto, but he was given to another production in exchange for Al Pacino.
De Niro later appeared as the young Vito Corleone in The Godfather: Part II, for which he won a Best Supporting Actor Academy Award. He later acheived fame by appearing in several several gangster films, including Mean Streets and The Untouchables, although he was lauded for his performance as a dying baseball player in Bang the Drum Slowly.
De Niro made his career become even more sucessful by working with Martin Scorsese in such films as Taxi Driver and Goodfellas. He continues to appear in sucesful films to this day.
