kann ich zwar nicht nachvollziehen, aber wenn es De Niro selbst sagt, wirds schon stimmen.
Robert De Niro was born in
Greenwich Village,[SUP]
[2][/SUP] New York City, the son of
Virginia Holton Admiral, a painter and poet, and
Robert De Niro, Sr., an
abstract expressionist painter and sculptor.[SUP]
[3][/SUP] His father was of
Italian and
Irish descent, and his mother was of
English,
German,
French, and
Dutch ancestry.[SUP]
[4][/SUP][SUP]
[5][/SUP] His Italian great-grandparents, Giovanni De Niro and Angelina Mercurio, emigrated from
Ferrazzano, in the
province of Campobasso,
Molise; and his paternal grandmother, Helen O'Reilly, was the granddaughter of Edward O'Reilly, an immigrant from
Ireland.
Robert De Niro, Sr., was born in
Syracuse,
New York, to an
Italian American father, Henry Martin De Niro (1897–1976), whose parents emigrated from
Ferrazzano, in the province of
Campobasso,
Molise,[SUP]
[4][/SUP] and an
Irish American mother, Helen M. (née O'Reilly; 1899–1999). He was the eldest of three children; he and siblings John and Joan were raised in Syracuse, New York.
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