Drena De Niro

Drena De Niro is an American actress and filmmaker who was born in New York City and grew up between there, Los Angeles, and Italy, raised by her mother, the actress Diahnne Abbott, and by the actor Robert De Niro, who adopted her. After high school she worked first as a model, then as a DJ and fashion consultant, and coordinated runway shows for Giorgio Armani as a musical supervisor. She broke into acting with a part in Allison Anders' Grace of My Heart and later trained with Larry Moss and Susan Batson. Her first film as writer and director was the documentary Girls and Dolls, about a young stylist's fixation on her dolls, and in 2001 the New York Independent Film/Video Festival gave her its Best Directorial Debut Award. She has acted in several films made by her father, among them Wag the Dog (1997), Showtime (2002), City by the Sea (2002) and The Intern (2015).