Ranking The 30 Best Actors of All-Time

22. Robert De Niro

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Ask any aspiring actor who their biggest inspiration is, and you’ll likely hear one name: Robert De Niro. His influence is so great that he helped spawn the undying method acting trend. De Niro made this style of acting popular with movies such as Taxi Driver and Mean Streets. In every character, he provided the authentic emotional intensity for the New Hollywood filmmakers (Francis Ford Coppola, Martin Scorsese) who were dead set on shaking up the old order of family-friendly Hollywood fluff. De Niro’s impressive career spans 40 years. Despite hitting every milestone possible, the 75-year-old New York native has shown no signs of slowing down.