This is an article about Robert De Niro Net Worth, Biography, Movies, Awards, Marriage, Family, Children, and other details about the American actor.
Who is Robert De Niro?
- Robert De Niro is an Italian-American actor, director, and producer.
- He is a multi-award Hollywood actor, notable to have received a Golden Globe Award, two Academy Awards, the Cecil B. DeMille Award, and other accolades.
- He has also received several nominations for the Screen actors guild Awards, BAFTA Awards, and many others.
- He was cast in the 1974 film The Godfather Part II as the young Vito Corleone for which he won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.
Robert De Niro Early Life
Robert De Niro (Robert Anthony De Niro Jr.) was born in Manhattan New York City, New York on August 17, 1943. He is the only child of Robert De Niro Sr. and Virginia Admiral who were both painters and met at a painting class. His parents separated when he was barely two years old following his father’s announcement that he was gay.
He attended a public elementary school in Manhattan before proceeding to Elisabeth Irwin High School for the seventh and eighth grades. Robert attended the High School of Music and Art for a short time before he transferred to Charles Evan Hughes Junior High School, a public junior high school. He began high school at McBurney School and later attended Rhodes Preparatory School, but graduated from neither.
Robert De Niro Career
Robert De Niro’s first role came when he was 20. He was cast to appear in the 1963 film The Wedding Party, which was released six years later in 1969. This followed an appearance in the 1970 film Bloody Mama. He also made an early appearance in Greetings (1968), Hi, Mom! (1970) and Born to Win (1971). Popular attention came his way when he played the role of a dying Baseball player in the 1973 film Bang the Drum Slowly.
In 1974 he had a pivotal role as the young Vito Corleone in The Godfather Part II, a Francis Ford Coppola film. His performance in the film got him his first Academy Award. He went on to have a successful career starring in films such as Taxi Driver (1976), New York, New York (1977), Raging Bull (1980), The King of Comedy (1982), Goodfellas (1990), Cape Fear (1991), Casino (1995), The Irishman (2019), Guilty by Suspicion (1991), Shark Tale (2004) among others.
Robert De Niro Movies
Robert De Niro has been active in the movie industry since his debut in 1963. In a career that has been up and running for 57 years, the Hollywood star has appeared in the following movies.
- Bang the Drum Slowly (1973)
- Mean Streets (1973)
- The Godfather Part II (1974)
- Taxi Driver (1976)
- 1900 (1976)
- The Last Tycoon (1976)
- New York, New York (1977)
- The Deer Hunter (1978)
- Raging Bull (1980)
- True Confessions (1981)
- The King of Comedy (1983)
- Once Upon a Time in America (1984)
- Falling in Love (1984)
- Brazil (1985)
- The Mission (1986)
- The Untouchables (1987)
- Angel Heart (1987)
- Midnight Run (1988)
- Awakenings (1990)
- Goodfellas (1990)
- “Stanley & Iris” (1990)
- Cape Fear (1991)
- Backdraft (1991)
- Mad Dog and Glory (1993)
- This Boys Life (1993)
- A Bronx Tale (1993)
- Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1994)
- Casino (1995)
- Heat (1995)
- The Fan (1996)
- Sleepers (1996)
- Marvins Room (1996)
- Jackie Brown (1997)
- Wag the Dog (1997)
- Great Expectations (1998)
- Ronin (1998)
- Flawless (1999)
- Analyze This (1999)
- Meet the Parents (2000)
- The Score (2001)
- Analyze That (2002)
- Shark Tale (2004)
- Meet the Fockers (2004)
- The Good Shepherd (2006)
- Stardust (2007)
- What Just Happened (2008)
- Righteous Kill (2008)
- Everybody Fine (2009)
- Little Fockers (2010)
- Limitless (2011)
- New Year’s Eve (2011)
- Being Flynn (2012)
- Silver Linings Playbook (2012)
- The Family (2013)
- Las Vegas (2013)
- The Bag Man (2014)
- The Intern (2015)
- Joy (2015)
- Dirty Grandpa (2016)
- Hands of Stone (2016)
- The Wizard of Lies (2017)
- Joker (2019)
- The Irishman (2019)
Robert De Niro Awards and Nominations
Robert De Niro is a seven-time Academy Award nominee. He won two Oscars for his roles in the 1974 film The Godfather Part II and the 1980 film Raging Bull. He has been nominated for the BAFTA Award six times, and eight times for the Golden Globe Award. In 2009, he was one of the five people that received the Kennedy Center Honors, which was presented by Barack Obama. He has two Academy Awards and two Golden Globe Awards to his name.
Marriage and Children
Robert De Niro has been married and divorced twice. In 1988 he divorced Diahnne Abbott who he married in 1976. His second marriage was to Grace Hightower in 1997. Their divorce came in 2018 and so far, Robert De Niro is not in any marriage.
He has twin sons, Aaron and Julian De Niro, conceived by in-vitro fertilization and delivered in 1995 by a surrogate mother. His other children are Elliot, Raphael, Drena, and Helen De Niro, with Drena and Helen being his only two daughters.
Robert De Niro Net Worth
The legendary Hollywood actor is said to earn salaries in excess of $20 million for each movie. For a long time, he has been an investor in the TriBeCa neighborhood. Reports suggest he has residences on the west and east sides of Manhattan. His 4,158 square feet New York apartment is worth $14 million.
Robert De Niro owns and co-owns more than 27 restaurants and hotels around the world. These business endeavors and his active career years as a successful actor are the sources of his net worth which is estimated to be about $500,000,000 (Five Hundred Million US Dollars).
With the ongoing case of divorce with his last wife Grace Hightower, the star’s net worth is subject to debate as the divorce and division are sure to cause a dip in his pocket.
His estranged wife Grace Hightower claims that he’s worth $500 million and wants her own common-law half of these marital assets. This could really cost the award-winning actor a lot of fortune.