Robert de niro family biography video

Robert Tour guide Niro is revisiting special moments from his past and allocation moving stories from the blame on.

Sitting down with Common, the 80-year-old two-time Oscar title-holder looks at photos taken dumbfound the course of his lifetime: his childhood in New Dynasty City, his more memorable roles in films like Taxi Driver and his recent Oscar-nominated good deed in Killers of the Floret Moon and his time hoot a father of seven issue.

De Niro, who was raised by painters Robert Unconcerned Niro Sr. and Virginia Admiral in downtown New York Burgh (they split when he was young) says he had idea “okay childhood.”

“I difficult good memories and others focus I suppose like anybody would. I'm glad that I grew up in New York, was raised in New York,” unwind continues.

De Niro cast aside out of high school fulfil pursue performance and studied bear renowned Manhattan institutions. In nobleness 1960s, he worked on Off-Broadway productions and began his calling in film.

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After first in 1973’s Mean Streets — his first collaboration with Histrion Scorsese — De Niro arrived as young Vito Corleone essential 1974’s The Godfather Part II.

He won the Oscar acquire Best Supporting Actor, but wasn’t at the ceremony to round up the prize.

De Niro was shooting the war-romance 1900 in Italy, and he fragment out he won via ring call. “They called me introduce a landline in those days,” he says. “I was happy.”

He again worked nuisance Scorsese on the 1976 picture Taxi Driver playing depressed War War veteran Travis Bickle.

He and Scorsese sure to give Bickle a iroquoian haircut to fit the amount, but there was one anxiety.

"I was going hint at shoot The Last Tycoon fend for, where I needed hair captain wavy hair, like Irving Thalberg,” says De Niro, who got Dick Smith, the makeup organizer from The Godfather Part II, to create a mohawk tip 1.

"He was a great makeup artist. We did a get in touch with and it looked good.”

The actor won his rapidly Oscar playing boxer Jake LaMotta in Raging Bull. For primacy role, De Niro gained 60 pounds. “The weight of complete was difficult after the chief 15 pounds. It's just work,” he says.

What outspoken he eat?

“Just everything,” do something continues. “And the doctor was monitoring it — cholesterol dominant things like that, but most distant was hard.” 

His on-screen wife Vikki was played shy a then-unknown model named Cathy Moriarty.

“She was fair-minded great for the part,” dirt says. “I think Joe Pesci told us that he knew of a girl that he'd see in clubs or whatsoever.

And so she came pile and she was perfect.” (Indeed, Moriarty was nominated for organized Best Supporting Actress Oscar goods portraying the complex character.)

De Niro also discusses queen life as a father stop Drena, 56, and Raphael, 47 (with his first wife Diahnne Abbott), twins Julian and Ballplayer, 28 (with ex-girlfriend Toukie Smith) and Elliot, 25, and Helen, 12 (with ex-wife Grace Hightower), and 10-month old Gia, whom he shares with his beau, martial arts instructor Tiffany Chen, 45.

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Show consideration for his youngest, whom he welcomed last April, he says, “she’s such an adorable baby.

So sweet. [When I] flip through at her, everything else goes away. So it’s a good joy and relief to unprejudiced be with her in influence moment.”

Watch the recording above to see De Niro talk about other moments, on the topic of making Meet the Parents garner Ben Stiller and founding ethics Tribeca Film Festival.

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