Robert De Niro Parents: Meet Robert De Niro Sr., Virginia Admiral

Robert De Niro is a legendary American actor, producer, and director. Robert De Niro is the son of Robert De Niro Sr. and Virginia Admiral.

Robert De Niro is the only child of his parents. His father was Irish and Italian, and his mother was Dutch, English, French, and German.

His parents, who met at Hans Hofmann’s painting classes in Provincetown, Massachusetts, divorced when he was two years old after his father revealed that he was gay. His mother raised him in Manhattan’s Greenwich Village and Little Italy neighbourhoods.

Robert De Niro’s father lived nearby and was close to De Niro throughout his childhood. Known as “Bobby Milk” because of his pale complexion, De Niro befriended many street kids in Little Italy, much to his father’s chagrin. Some, on the other hand, have remained his lifelong friends.

His mother was raised Presbyterian but later became an atheist, and his father was a lapsed Catholic since the age of 12.

Despite his parents’ wishes, De Niro was secretly baptised into the Catholic Church while staying with his grandparents during his parents’ divorce.