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August 17th, 2006 - Happy Birthday Robert DeNiro!
By Allie | August 17, 2006
Robert De Niro Jr. (born August 17, 1943) is a two time Academy Award-winning American film actor, director, producer and founder of the Tribeca Film Festival.
He is regarded as one of the finest motion picture actors of his generation. Many regard him as the successor to Marlon Brando. He is particularly noted for his portrayal of mobsters in the gangster underworld, and conflicted, troubled characters, and for his enduring collaboration with director Martin Scorsese.
He’s 63!
De Niro was born in New York City, the son of Robert De Niro, Sr., an abstract expressionist painter, sculptor and poet (De Niro’s great-grandparents were Italian immigrants from the village of Ferrazzano, Molise,), and Virginia Admiral, also a painter. They had met at the painting classes of Hans Hofmann in Provincetown, Massachusetts. His parents divorced when he was two years old.
De Niro first attended the Little Red School House and was then enrolled by his mother at the High School of Music and Art in New York. He dropped out at the age of 13 and joined a Little Italy street gang, where he earned the nickname Bobby Milk due to his white complexion. He then had a falling-out with his father, although they were eventually reconciled when, at 18, he flew to Paris to bring his father home when he had been suffering from depression. De Niro attended the Stella Adler Conservatory, as well as Lee Strasberg’s Actor’s Studio (although De Niro conflicted with Strasberg’s methods, and used his membership there mostly as a professional advantage). At the age of 16 he toured in Chekhov’s The Bear.
De Niro has been married twice. He has a stepdaughter, Drina (after Drina river on the border between Republika Srpska And Serbia, described in Nobel laureate Ivo Andrić’s book Bridge on the Drina), and a son, Raphael, from first wife Dianne Abbott; and two sons, Julian Henry and Aaron Kendrick, from a long-term live-in relationship with former model Toukie Smith. Smith and De Niro’s boys, who are twins, were conceived by in vitro fertilization. Raphael, a former actor, now works in the New York real estate market.
A Bit of Trivia:
Other August 17th Birthdays:
Maureen O’Hara-Actress (86)
Robert Joy-Actor (55)
Belinda Carlisle-Singer (48)
Sean Penn-Actor (46)
Brady Corbet-Actor/24 (18)
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2 Responses to “August 17th, 2006 - Happy Birthday Robert DeNiro!”
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January 14th, 2008 at 5:45 am
- His daughter’s name is Drena
- She had that name when she was adopted.
- Information about him naming her that is not true.
- “Republika Srpska” doesn’t exist. The country is called Bosnia and Herzegovina. I was there so I know it for a fact. The “Republika Srpska” name is name of the region that Serbs attacked in Bosnia and commited genocide against Muslims and Croatians. The region left the name after the war. However that doesn’t make it a country.
September 26th, 2008 at 5:49 pm
I agree with George. So-called “Republika Srpska” is a genocidal statelet that wants to become a country after they exterminated Bosnian muslims and catholics. Its leading party is called “Union of National Socialist Democrats”. Does national-socialist ring a bell?
I bet that the writer of the article is under fascist propaganda before checking facts. Such a reputable page should not disseminate disimformation or you’ll becoma a laughing stock.
Bosnia is a country that exists since 10 century as a kingdom. It was often occupied and still is as a result of genocide.