ROBERT DE NIRO

place of birth and birth date:

Born: August 17, 1943 (age 72),
 Greenwich Village, New York City, New York, United States 

An American actor and producer who has starred in over 90 films. His first major film roles were in the sports drama Bang the Drum Slowly and Martin Scorsese's crime film Mean Streets

 left school at age 16 to study acting with Stella Adler Conservatory (Stella Adler Studio of acting) Stella Adler was a strong proponent of the Stanislavski method of acting, involving deep psychological character investigation.


Early life and Background :

His parents were both respected artists who had met while attending Hans Hoffman's famed Provincetown painting classes. His mother, Virginia Admiral, was a cerebral and gifted painter, a Berkeley graduate who made a significant name for herself in the 1940s and '50s New York art scene. His father, Robert De Niro Sr., was a painter, sculptor and poet whose work received high critical acclaim.


firts Jobs such as actor and career beginnings

worked with many acclaimed film directors, including Brian DePalma, Elia Kazan and, most importantly, Martin Scorsese. De Niro's role in The Godfather: Part II (1974) and brought him his first Academy Award. The Deer Hunter (1978).  Taxi Driver (1976), El Francotirador (1978), and Cabo de miedo (1991). He won the best actor award in 1980 for Toro salvaje (1980). De Niro heads his own production company, Tribeca Film Center, and made his directorial debut in 1993 with Una luz en el infierno (1993).scored his second Academy Award for Raging Bull (1980).  Goodfellas and Analyze This and recently  won acclaim for his work on Silver Linings Playbook (2012). garnering the seventh Oscar nod of his career. 

He studied briefly with Lee Strasberg at the Actor's Studio in New York City, and then began auditioning. As actress Sally Kirkland once recalled, instead of traditional headshots
After a momentary cameo in the 1965 French film Three Rooms in Manhattan, De Niro's real debut came in the 1968 film Greetings. His breakthrough performances came five years later in a pair of highly acclaimed 1973 films: Bang the Drum Slowly, in which he played a terminally ill catcher on a baseball team, and Mean Streets, his first of many collaborations with director Martin Scorsese, in which he played a street thug opposite Harvey Keitel.


personal life:

he  is known for rarely giving interviews and has limited interest in traditional celebrity life. He married actress Diahnne Abbott in 1976. The couple had one son before divorcing 12 years later, in 1988. De Niro then had a long relationship with model Toukie Smith that produced twin sons in 1995. Then in 1997, De Niro married Grace Hightower, with whom he has one son.