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Robert De Niro (; born August 17, 1943) is an American actor and producer who has starred in over 90 films. His first major film roles were in the sports drama ''Bang the Drum Slowly'' (1973) and Martin Scorsese's crime film ''Mean Streets'' (1973). In 1974, after being turned down for the role of Sonny Corleone in the crime film ''The Godfather'' (1972), he was cast as the young Vito Corleone in ''The Godfather Part II'' (1974), for which he won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. De Niro's longtime collaboration with Scorsese later earned him an Academy Award for Best Actor for his portrayal of Jake LaMotta in the 1980 film ''Raging Bull''. He also earned nominations for the psychological thrillers ''Taxi Driver'' (1976) and ''Cape Fear'' (1991), both directed by Scorsese. De Niro received additional Academy Award nominations for Michael Cimino's Vietnam war drama ''The Deer Hunter'' (1978), Penny Marshall's drama ''Awakenings'' (1990), and David O. Russell's romantic comedy-drama ''Silver Linings Playbook'' (2012). His portrayal of gangster Jimmy Conway in Scorsese's crime film ''Goodfellas'' (1990) earned him a BAFTA nomination in 1990. De Niro has earned four nominations for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy, for his work in the musical drama ''New York, New York'' (1977), opposite Liza Minnelli, the action comedy ''Midnight Run'' (1988), the gangster comedy ''Analyze This'' (1999), and the comedy ''Meet the Parents'' (2000). He has also simultaneously directed and starred in films such as the crime drama ''A Bronx Tale'' (1993) and the spy film ''The Good Shepherd'' (2006). De Niro has also received the AFI Life Achievement Award in 2003 and the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award in 2010. == Early life == De Niro was born in the Greenwich Village area of Manhattan, New York,〔Stated on ''Inside the Actors Studio'', 1998〕 the son of Virginia Admiral, a painter and poet, and Robert De Niro, Sr., an abstract expressionist painter and sculptor.〔(【引用サイトリンク】work=filmreference.com )〕 His father was of half Italian and half Irish descent, while his mother was of half German ancestry, with her other roots being Dutch, English, French, and Irish.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 url=http://www.contactmusic.com/info/robert_de_niro )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000134/bio )〕 His Italian great-grandparents, Giovanni De Niro and Angelina Mercurio, emigrated from Ferrazzano, Molise. His paternal grandmother, Helen O'Reilly, was the granddaughter of Irish immigrants.〔()〕 De Niro's parents, who had met at the painting classes of Hans Hofmann in Provincetown, Massachusetts, divorced when he was three years old. He was raised by his mother in the Greenwich Village and Little Italy areas of Manhattan. His father lived within walking distance and De Niro spent much time with him as he grew up.〔Dougan, p. 10.〕 De Niro attended PS 41, a public elementary school in Manhattan, through the sixth grade. He then went to Elisabeth Irwin High School, the private upper school of the Little Red School House, for the seventh and eighth grades.〔Dougan, pp. 12–13.〕 He was accepted into the High School of Music and Art for the ninth grade, but only attended for a short time before transferring to a public junior high school.〔Dougan, pp. 13–14.〕 De Niro began high school at the private McBurney School〔 pp. 37–38.〕 and later attended the private Rhodes Preparatory School,〔Baxter, p. 37.〕 although he never graduated from either.〔Dougan, pp. 17–18.〕 Nicknamed "Bobby Milk" for his pallor, De Niro hung out with a group of street kids as a youth in Little Italy, some of whom have remained his lifelong friends.〔Dougan, p. 17.〕 The direction of his future had already been foreshadowed by his stage debut at age 10, when he played the Cowardly Lion in a school production of ''The Wizard of Oz''.〔〔Dougan, p.15.〕 Along with finding relief from shyness through performing, he was also fixated by cinema, and he dropped out of high school at age 16 to pursue acting.〔 He studied acting at the Stella Adler Conservatory, as well as Lee Strasberg's Actors Studio.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Robert De Niro」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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