Robert De Niro
Robert Anthony De Niro Jr. (/də ˈnɪəroʊ/, Italian: [de ˈniːro]; born August 17, 1943) is an American actor, producer, and director. De Niro grew up with his parents in Greenwich Village during the 1940's wanting to become an actor. He studied acting at HB Studio, the Stella Adler Conservatory, as well as Lee Strasberg's Actors Studio. In the 1960s, De Niro's first film roles came in his 20s appearing in the early films of Brian De Palma and Roger Corman. He gained notices with his role as a dying Major League Baseball player in Bang the Drum Slowly (1973). It wasn't until his first collaboration with Martin Scorsese when he played the small-time criminal Johnny Boy in Mean Streets (1973) that he gained widespread critical attention earning a New York Film Critics Circle Award nomination for his performance. De Niro was then cast as the young Vito Corleone in the Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather Part II (1974) where he won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. De Niro earned nominations for his next films, playing the iconic role as trouble Vietnam War vet and taxi cab driver in Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver (1976), and in Michael Cimino's Vietnam War drama The Deer Hunter alongisde Meryl Streep, and Christopher Walken.
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