Robert De Niro

Robert De Niro, Jr. (born August 17, 1943 in New York City) is an acclaimed American film actor.

Early life

De Niro was born in New York City, the son of Robert De Niro, Sr., an abstract expressionist painter, sculptor, and poet and Virginia Admiral, also a painter who had met at the painting classes of Hans Hoffman in Provincetown, Massachusetts. His parents divorced when he was two years old. A biographer, John Baxter, claims that his father was gay, and had relationships with the poet Robert Duncan, the playwright Tennessee Williams and artist Jackson Pollock. De Niro first attended the Little Red School House School and was then enrolled by his mother at the High School of Music and Art in New York, however 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. This caused him to fall out with his father, although they were eventually reconciled when, aged 18, he flew out to Paris to bring his father home who had been suffering from clinical depression. De Niro attended the Stella Adler Conservatory learning the art of method acting from Lee Strasberg. At the age of only 16 he toured in Chekov's The Beamade.

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New York City - Robert De Niro, Sr. - Provincetown - Massachusetts - Robert Duncan - Tennessee Williams - Jackson Pollock - Little Red School House - New York - Little Italy - Paris - Clinical depression - Stella Adler - Lee Strasberg - Chekov - The Beamade

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