Robert De Niro

Robert Mario De Niro, Jr. (born August 17, 1943) is a two-time Academy Award- and Golden Globe-winning American film actor, director, and producer He is often listed among the greatest actors of all time He is noted for his methodist acting and portrayal of conflicted, troubled characters and for his enduring collaboration with director Martin Scorsese He is best known for his roles as the young Vito Corleone in The Godfather Part II, cabbie Travis Bickle in Taxi Driver, boxer Jake La Motta in Raging Bull, mobster Jimmy Conway in Goodfellas, Al Capone in The Untouchables, and Meet the Parents/Meet the Fockers. De Niro was born in New York, the son of Virginia Admiral, a painter, and Robert De Niro, Sr., an abstract expressionist painter and sculptor. De Niro's father was a lapsed Catholic of Italian and Irish descent and his mother a Presbyterian-raised atheist of German, Dutch and French descent. His Italian great-grandparents had emigrated from Ferrazzano, in the province of...