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Robert De Niro Height, Age, Wife, Children, Family, Biography & More

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Age: 79 Years
Hometown: Greenwich Village
Wife: Grace Hightower

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Bio
Full NameRobert Anthony De Niro
NicknameBobby
Profession(s)Actor
Director
Producer
Voice Actor
Famous RolesOnce Upon a Time in America (1984)
Brazil (1985)
The Untouchables (1987)
Backdraft (1991)
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1994)
Heat (1995)
Casino (1995)
Jackie Brown (1997)
Machete (2010)
Physical Stats & More
Height (approx.)in centimeters- 175 cm
in meters- 1.75 m
in Feet Inches- 5'9"
Weight (approx.) in Kilograms-75 kg
in Pounds- 175 lbs
Body Measurements (approx.) - Chest: 43 Inches
- Waist: 32 Inches
- Biceps: 15 Inches
Eye ColourDark Brown
Hair ColourSalt and Pepper
Personal Life
Date of BirthAugust 17, 1943
Age (as of 2022)79 Years
BirthplaceManhattan, New York, U.S.
Zodiac signLeo
NationalityAmerican
HometownGreenwich Village
SchoolPS41 (Elementary public school)
Elisabeth Irwin High School
Little Red School House
High School of Music and Art
McBurney School
Rhodes Preparatory School
College/InstitutionStella Adler Conservatory
Lee Strasberg's Actors Studio
Debut Three Rooms in Manhattan
FamilyFather- Robert De Niro Sr.(Abstract expressionist painter and sculptor)
Mother- Virginia Admiral (painter and poet)
Brother-
ReligionAgnostic
EthnicityItalian, half Irish descent, mother - half German ancestry, with her other roots being Dutch, English, French, and Irish.
Fan Mail AddressRobert De Niro
Tribeca Entertainment
375 Greenwich Street
New York, NY 10013
USA
Favorite ActorMontgomery Clift, Robert Mitchum and Marlon Brando
Major ControversiesIn February 1998, De Niro was questioned if he was involved in a prostitution racket. De Niro denied the accusation and said that he would never come back to France. Although he did come to France for shooting a movie and also was the member of "2011 Cannes Film Festival".

There have been legal issues over his property in Gardiner, New York. His trust had appealed to lower the tax payment ($6 million) and challenged the decision in Supreme Court, which they won. The local residents that were earlier sympathetic of DeNiro, started collecting money on personal level to defend the state as it was already short on funds to run the estates.
Girls, Affairs and More
Marital StatusMarried
Affairs/GirlfriendsKaren Duffy
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Tatiana Thumbtzen
Tatiana
Cindy Crawford
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Moana Pozzi
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Naomi Campbell(1971-1974)
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Leigh Taylor-Young (1971-1974)
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Carole Mallory (1975)
Carole
Diahnne Abbott(1976-1988)
Dianne and De Niro
Helena Springs (1979-1982)
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Bette Midler (1979)
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Barbara Carrerea (1979)
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Veronica Webb (1990)
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Toukie Smith (1990-1993)
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Uma Thurman (1993)
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Charmaine Sinclair (1993-1995)
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Dominique Simone (1995)
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Ashley Judd (1995)
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Grace Hightower (1996)
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Wife/SpouseDiahnne Abbott (m. 1976; div. 1988)
Grace Hightower (m. 1997)
ChildrenSon- 4
• Raphel De Niro (former actor; works in real rstate now)
• Elliot Deniro (was diagnosed with autism)
• Aaron Kendrick
• Julian Henry De Niro
Daughter- 2
• Helena De Niro
• Drena De Niro (adopted, from his first wife)

Note: Helena, Aaron and Julian are his twin sons who were conceived by in vitro fertilization from a surrogate mother. In May 2023, he became father to his 7th child. [1]BBC
Current Relationship StatusMarried to Grace Hightower
Money Factor
Net Worth$200 million
HouseA 78-acre (32 ha) estate in Gardiner, New York.

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Some Lesser Known Facts About Robert De Niro

  • Does Robert De Niro smoke? Yes
  • Does Robert De Niro drink? Yes
  • Robert De Niro has starred in over 100 films.
  • He won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for playing the young  Vito Corleone in The Godfather Part II.
  • He won an Academy Award for Best Actor for his character Jake La Motta in the movie Ranging Bull.
  • He has received two awards for his brilliant journey in Hollywood. He was honored with AFI Life Achievement Award in 2003 and the  Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Awardin 2010.
  • His parents divorced when he was three years old because his father revealed that he was gay.  He was raised by his mother and his father lived within walking distance, so Robert was not deprived of his company too much.
  • Robert was baptized against the will of his parents. His grandparents secretly took him to the Church while he was staying with them.
  • He acted in a drama where he played the Cowardly Lion in The Wizard of Oz. This not only helped him to get rid of his shyness but he was also fixated by cinema. He dropped out of school at 16 to pursue acting.
  • De Niro was the first person to win an Academy Award when he was mostly speaking a foreign language in the role. For his role in The Godfather, he spoke multiple Sicilian dialects. Marlon Brando was also one of the achievers in the same kind of category.
  • De Niro had traveled his journey from an actor to a jury in 1987. He was part of the jury at  15th Moscow International Film Festival.
  • He was honored at the 20th Moscow International Film Festival in 1997 for his contribution to cinema.
  • The director of the movie Elia Kazan is all praises for Robert De Niro. He noticed on the sets of The Last Tycoon that he is meticulous and precise. He judges the roles inside out and is very imaginative. He also that he was the only one who would visit the scenes on a Sunday when everyone else was playing Tennis.
  • Robert De Niro’s method of acting is “method acting” actually. He is very committed to his characters and does the best to bring out the best in himself and others.
  • He gained 27 kg (60 lb) for his character Jake Lamotta in Raging bull and also learned boxing. For the movie Cape Fear he ground his teeth and lived in Sicily for The Godfather Part II. Worked as a cab driver for Taxi Driver.
  • He emphasized on his character so much that Jerry Lewis actually got furious and forgot that there are cameras and came at De Niro’ s throat.
  • De Niro is a strong supporter of the Democratic Party.
  • After the 9/11 attacks, Robert De Niro started the Tribeca Film Festival to revitalize the lower Manhattan area.
  • Robert De Niro is supporting the anti-vaccination movement for the people who suffer from the effects of vaccines. They also included Andrew Wakefield movie Vaxxed in the 2016 Tribeca Film Festival which was removed earlier due to pressure from the festival filmmakers.
  • De Niro was the last man to see the comedian John Belushi alive when he visited him in a hotel at 3 AM and found him intoxicated with heroin and cocaine.
  • Robert was diagnosed with prostate cancer and  he underwent surgery at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in December 2003.
  • Robert De Niro and Shawn Pen share the same birthday.
  • He and director Martin Scorsese lived only a few blocks away from each other but they did not meet each other until later.
  • He co-owns the celebrity favorite restaurants Nobu and Tribeca Grill. 
  • He made-up the famous scene of Bickle, which originally was just a quiet glaring the mirror scene.
  • Robert De Niro was chosen out of a long list of actors who auditioned for the role of Vito Corleone. The list goes like – Ernest Borgnine, Edward G. Robinson, Orson Welles, Danny Thomas, Richard Conte, Anthony Quinn, and George C. Scott.
  • In the movie Heat, the famous face-off scene between De Niro and Pacino was not rehearsed on Robert’s suggestion, to make their unfamiliarity seem genuine.
  • De Niro performed a lot of scenes of the movie “The Deer Hunter” by himself.
  • In the movie The Deer Hunter, when Christopher Walker spits in his face during The Russian Roulette scene, his reaction was real, because he wasn’t aware that it was part of the script.
  • Robert broke one of Joe Pepsci’s ribs in the sparring scene in Raging Bull.
  • De Niro was part of the impeccable director Sergio Leone’s last movie Once Upon a Time in America.
  • He was nominated for the 96th Academy Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role category on January 23, 2024, for the film ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ (2023).

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