1. Robert De Niro was born in a family of artists. Father, Robert De Niro Elder, was a renowned sculptor and artist. Mother, Virginia Admiral, was a painter and poet. Parents met at the courses of painting and later married.
2. Robert De Niro’s parents divorced after his birth. Family life of parents of the actor lasted only a few years. After the birth of Robert, his father admitted his homosexuality and left the family. However, the father took an active part in the life of the son.
3. Robert De Niro is only a quarter of the Italian. For some reason, it assumed that De Niro’s is Italian blooded. But, as it turned out, he was only the Italian quarter. In addition to Italian, the actor has Irish, English, French, German and Dutch roots.
4. Robert De Niro has been married twice. But in fact he had three wives and all African American. With the first wife, Dianne Abbott, he was married officially, with the second – Tookie Smith – lived in a civil marriage, his third wife is Grace Hightower, with who still lives together.
5. Robert De Niro is the father of six children. Actor adopted the daughter of his first wife Dren, which later starred in the films. Also in the first marriage he had a son, Robert Rafael. In a civil union De Niro had two twin boys – Julian and Aaron, another son Elliot and daughter Helen were born in the third marriage.
6. The first role was played by Robert De Niro at age 10. The first acting experience was taken by a future star after playing the role of the Cowardly Lion in a school production of the fairy tale “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz”.
7. Robert De Niro made his debut in the movie in 1963. The actor played the friend of the groom in Brian De Palma’s “Wedding Party” movie.
8. World famous Robert De Niro became after “The Godfather 2”. The role of young Vito Corleone was the pinnacle for Robert, after which the actor got world fame. It also brought him “Oscar” for Best Supporting Actor.
9. Robert De Niro won his teacher in the struggle for “Oscar”. The fact is that in “The Godfather 2” film Robert starred together with his mentor Lee Strasberg, and he was also nominated for the award “Oscar” for supporting actor, but the statuette went to De Niro.
10. Robert De Niro hit the Guinness Book of Records. Another interesting fact from the life of a star – De Niro gained 27 kilograms of excess weight for the role in “Raging Bull”. It must be sais that he did it knowingly, because this brought him a second “Oscar”.
11. For the role of maniac De Niro made his dentist rich. Ask how? First, the actor asked him to destroy all the teeth for more effective image, and after the shooting in “Cape Fear” recover them.
12. Robert De Niro starred in nearly 100 films. The most fruitful cooperation was with director Martin Scorsese. Robert has played in more than 10 films of this director.
