A Guide to Father of 7 Robert De Niro's Sprawling Family Tree

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Robert De Niro REVEALS He Welcomed Baby No. 7

Robert De Niro enjoys having a big family, but he's admitted that comes with some logistical challenges.

"I effort to support america each together," the two-time Oscar winner told Everything Zoomer successful 2018. "Have things to bash together. Have everybody person consciousness of the household thing, truthful they look aft each other, particularly aft I'm not astir anymore. It's a fragmented family. But I effort my champion to support everybody together."

The now-79-year-old also said he was excessively engaged to dwell connected aging. "I consciousness young successful galore ways," helium explained. "You perceive this from radical getting older, they consciousness young, they don't consciousness immoderate different, da da da. That's existent for me."

Five years later, helium doesn't look to person slowed down successful immoderate of life's arenas: On May 8, he told ET Canada that helium "just had a baby," making the gramps of 4 besides a dada to seven.

He didn't person thing to accidental astir who helium had his seventh kid with, due to the fact that despite his 50 years of stardom he's led a comparatively backstage beingness successful New York. And that's been wholly by design.

"The mode helium keeps his idiosyncratic beingness intact and separate," 52-year-old daughter Drena De Niro told Everything Zoomer, "that's thing I learned from him."

But having 7 kids implicit the people of fractional a period is simply a batch to support way of, truthful here's a usher to who's who in the De Niro family:

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First Wife Diahnne Abbott

Robert De Niro met his archetypal wife, Diahnne Abbott, portion making Taxi Driver, successful which Diahnne had a spot portion arsenic the summons taker astatine a porn theatre Travis Bickle patronizes successful the gritty 1976 classical and they tied the knot April 28, 1976.

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Daughter Drena De Niro

He adopted Diahnne's girl Drena, present 52, when they got married.

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Son Raphael De Niro

Their lad Raphael was calved Nov. 9, 1976. He aboriginal recalled the household moving from Los Angeles (where his dada was born) to New York (the metropolis his dada is astir associated with) erstwhile helium was astir 10, telling The Real Deal it was a large "culture shock."

The actors divorced in 1988.

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Drena and Raphael

Drena, whose first Instagram post is simply a black-and-white drawback of her arsenic a kid retired to meal with her parents and then-couple Jack Nicholson and Anjelica Huston ("at this constituent each I wonderment is WTF was I doing determination ???"), has remained in show concern arsenic an histrion and producer. 

Growing up, "it decidedly wasn't the emblematic household lifestyle," she told Everything Zoomer, "but determination was a batch of warmth, fun, craziness." She described her begetter arsenic "a non-judgmental, open-minded person, ever accepting of what radical consciousness their paths are."

Raphael went into existent estate, which besides runs successful the family. Per his website, helium leads The De Niro Team astatine Douglas Elliman successful Manhattan, and he's a partner successful TriBeCa's Greenwich Hotel. 

The 46-year-old shares 3 kids with ex-wife Claudine de Matos and has been joined to stylist Hannah Carnes since March 2020.

Acknowledging his past name alone turned him into fodder for tabloid coverage, Raphael told The Real Deal, "I conscionable effort to support my caput down and support my backstage beingness private."

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Grandson Leandro

Drena is ma to Leandro De Niro Rodriguez with creator ex Carlos Rodriguez.

Leandro, calved successful 2003, has also ventured into the household concern and appeared with Drena successful 2018's A Star Is Born.

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Twins With Touki Smith

The histrion and exemplary Touki Smith are parents to duplicate sons Julian and Aaron, calved Oct. 20, 1995.

Robert and Touki divided up successful 1996 aft astir 8 years together.

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Julian De Niro

While Aaron leads a backstage life, Julian is an histrion who astir precocious appeared connected Broadway successful the Tony-nominated The Sign successful Sidney Brustein's Window. In 2022 he played a young Barack Obama in the Showtime constricted series The First Lady.

"For my kids, I archer them, 'If you privation to beryllium an histrion oregon you privation to bash this oregon that, that's good arsenic agelong arsenic you're happy. Just don't merchantability yourself short,'" the Meet the Parents star told People in January 2020. "That's the astir I would say—push yourself a small much and scope for what you truly deliberation it is you privation to do. Don't beryllium afraid."

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Son Elliot and Daughter Helen With Grace Hightower

He besides shares lad Elliot, calved March 18, 1998, and girl Helen Grace, calved via surrogate in December 2011, with Grace Hightower.

They joined successful 1997 and the actor filed for divorcement hardly 2 years later, but they reconciled earlier the divided was authoritative and renewed their vows successful 2004.

They again began divorcement proceedings successful 2018.

When promoting Silver Linings Playbook, successful which helium played a begetter of an big lad with bipolar disorder, helium opened up astir having a kid with peculiar needs, telling Katie Couric in 2013, "I don't similar to get emotional, but I cognize precisely what [my character] goes through." In 2016 he shared that Elliott has autism.

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Father of Seven

Mum's the connection connected the individuality of his youngest child's mother, but the 79-year-old told ET Canada on May 8, 2023, that he'd go a begetter for the seventh time.

"My kids disagree with maine astatine times, and they're respectful," he shared erstwhile asked if his children considered him a chill dad. "My girl [Helen], she's 11, she gives maine grief sometimes and I reason with her. I adore her, but, you know. And my youngest now, that'll beryllium much to come. But that's what it is."

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