Robert De Niro
An actor whose name became a byword for complete transformation, and Martin Scorsese's leading man: Mean Streets, Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, Goodfellas, The Irishman. Two Oscars — for the young Vito Corleone in The Godfather Part II (1975) and for the boxer Jake LaMotta in Raging Bull (1981). After 11 September he founded the Tribeca Film Festival with the producer Jane Rosenthal to bring life back to his part of Manhattan.
Born in New York on 17 August 1943 at 3:00 in the morning, Eastern War Time. The hour is taken from the birth certificate.