Robert De Niro
Robert De Niro is an American actor, voice actor, director, and producer. His first major film roles were in
Bang the Drum Slowly and
Mean Streets. In 1974, after being turned down for the role of Michael Corleone in
The Godfather, he was cast as the young Vito Corleone in
The Godfather Part II, a role for which he won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. De Niro's longtime collaboration with director Martin Scorsese began with
Mean Streets, and later earned him an Academy Award for Best Actor for his portrayal of Jake LaMotta in the 1980 film
Raging Bull. He earned nominations for
Taxi Driver in 1976 and
Cape Fear in 1991. De Niro received additional Academy Award nominations for Michael Cimino's
The Deer Hunter, Penny Marshall's
Awakenings, and David O. Russell's
Silver Linings Playbook. His portrayal of gangster Jimmy Conway in Scorsese's
Goodfellas earned him a BAFTA nomination in 1990.