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Robert Anthony De Niro (born August 17, 1943) is an American actor and film producer. Considered one of his generation's greatest and most influential actors, De Niro has received 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 honoured with the AFI Life Achievement Award in 2003, the Kennedy Center Honors in 2009, the Cecil B. DeMille Award in 2011, and the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award in 2019. De Niro was presented with the Presidential Medal of Freedom by U.S. President Barack Obama in 2016. 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 Palma's Greetings (1968). De Niro's first collaboration with Martin Scorsese was with the crime drama film Mean Streets (1973). De Niro has earned two Academy Awards: one for Best Supporting Actor for his role as Vito Corleone in Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather Part II (1974) and the other for Best Actor portraying Jake LaMotta in Scorsese's drama Raging Bull (1980). De Niro was also Oscar-nominated for Taxi Driver (1976), The Deer Hunter (1978), Awakenings (1990), Cape Fear (1991), Silver Linings Playbook (2012), and Killers of the Flower Moon (2023). He is also known for his film roles in Bang the Drum Slowly (1973), 1900 (1976), The King of Comedy (1982), Once Upon a Time in America(1984), Brazil (1985), The Mission (1986), Angel Heart (1987), The Untouchables (1987), Goodfellas (1990), This Boy's Life (1993), Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1994), Heat (1995), Casino (1995), Jackie Brown (1997), Joker (2019), and The Irishman (2019). He directed and acted in A Bronx Tale (1993) and The Good Shepherd (2006). His comedic roles include Hi, Mom! (1970), Midnight Run (1988), Wag the Dog (1997), Analyze This (1999) and its sequel, Analyze That (2002), the Meet the Parents films (2000–2010), and The Intern (2015). Also known for his television roles, De Niro portrayed Bernie Madoff in the HBO film The Wizard of Lies (2017), earning a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or Movie. He received further Emmy Award nominations for producing the Netflix limited series When They See Us (2019) and for portraying Robert Mueller on Saturday Night Live. De Niro and producer Jane Rosenthal founded the film and television production company TriBeCa Productions in 1989, which has produced several films alongside his own. Also with Rosenthal, he founded the Tribeca Film Festival in 2002. Many of De Niro's films are considered classics of American cinema. Six of De Niro's films have been inducted into the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" as of 2023. Five films are featured on the American Film Institute's (AFI) list of the 100 greatest American films ever. Timeout magazine's list of 100 best movies included seven of De Niro's films, as chosen by actors in the industry.
Douglas Smith found an abandoned kitten, took him home, he with wife, Rose, named him Mikey. He was often in the garden or at home, but mostly he was gone. They loved and took care of him. When Mikey was still a kitten, Douglas was taking him to the lake, sitting on a bench, watching the swans, talking to him. When Mikey was bigger, he wasn't much home anymore, he spent the whole day elsewhere, but always at exactly 12:00 he came to the bench by the lake where Douglas was already waiting for him. Mikey and Douglas always met at 12:00, Douglas stroked him, read him a news, sometimes took a rod and caught him a fish. Once, when Mikey was 3 years old, he was hunting butterflies in a meadow, suddenly an old Rick Wayne was driving a tractor and had a radio on, and the presenter said it was 11:30, Mikey heard it and set out for Douglas on the bench. Mikey was walking along the side of the road as a drunken driver of a large SUV drove by, ignore and knock Mikey down. Douglas was waiting for him on the bench, but he didn't come. SUV left with blood on the car. Douglas sat waiting for hours. He went home and with Rose looking for Mikey. Douglas then went to the bench for another 10 years, hoping Mikey would show up one day. Mikey was noticed 10 years ago by another man, took him home to Alabama and treated him. Next day, Douglas came to the bench to sit sadly again, hoping that Mickey would return after 10 years. When he saw him sitting on a bench, waiting for him, he cried.
