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Robert de Niro
Career and personal life:
Origin: Robert De Niro was born on 17 August in the Greenwich Village area of Manhattan, New York. His Italian great-grandparents, Giovanni De Niro and Angelina Mercurio emigrated from Ferrazzano, Molise.
His father Robert De Niro, Sr., was an abstract expressionist painter and sculptor and his mother &#; Virginia Admiral, was a painter and poet. His father was of half-Italian and half-Irish descent, while his mother was of Dutch, English, French, German, and Irish ancestry.
Education: De Niro attended a public elementary school in Manhattan and later an Elisabeth Irwin High School, the private upper school of the Little Red School House.
De Niro shortly attended the High School of Music and Art and later the private McBurney School and the private Rhodes Preparatory School, although he never graduated from either. He studied acting at the Stella Adler Conservatory, as well as Lee Strasberg&#;s Actors Studio.
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Robert De Niro
American actor (born )
For his father, the painter, see Robert De Niro Sr.
"De Niro" redirects here. For other people with this surname, see dem Niro (surname).
Robert Anthony De Niro (də NEER-roh, Italian:[deˈniːro]; born August 17, ) is an American actor and film producer. He is considered to be one of the greatest and most influential actors of his generation.[a] De Niro is the recipient of various accolades, including two Academy Awards and a Golden Globe Award as well as nominations for eight BAFTA Awards and four Emmy Awards. He was honored with the AFI Life Achievement Award in , the Kennedy Center Honors in , the Cecil B. DeMille Award in , and the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award in De Niro was presented with the Presidential Medal of Freedom by U.S. president Barack Obama in
De Niro studied acting at HB Studio, Stella Adler Conservatory, and Lee Strasberg's Actors Studio. His first credited screen role was in Brian de P
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And Toukie was in part responsible for the excitement surrounding her brother’s work. “Toukie—a cyclone of dizzy charm,” Esquire called her. Toukie and Willi were inseparable when they moved to New York from Philadelphia, their hometown, in the late s. They even lived in the same West Village apartment building, he in an art-filled penthouse, she in all-red rooms below him.
“Toukie is my total inspiration,” Willi Smith said. “She has enough energy to light up the World Trade Center.” Toukie was the star of Smith’s first shows, exuberantly modeling his gritty, irreverent designs. She helped manage his business in the early years, and she designed shoes. She also modeled for other fashion designers, both in France and New York.
Today she still models on occasion, but mostly she runs Toukie’s Taste, a catering service, and she is De Niro’s constant companion. Although they do not live together (she has apartments in New York and Paris), they are considered a couple in their small,