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Virginia Admiral (or
Virginia De Niro;
February 4,
1915 –
July 27,
2000) was the mother of
Academy Award-winning actor
Robert De Niro, and the wife of painter
Robert De Niro, Sr.
Biography
Virginia Holton Admiral was born in
Oregon, the daughter of Donald Admiral and Alice Caroline Groman. In 1920, Virginia was recorded in the census residing in
Danville, Illinois, with her parents and younger sister
Eleanor. Her father was working as a grain broker. By 1930 Virginia's parents had divorced and she was living with her mother and sister in
Berkeley, California. Here (according to the 1930 Census) Alice Admiral was employed as a school teacher.
Virginia Admiral was of
Dutch,
German,
English, and
French origin. She was a
Presbyterian-raised atheist. Her grandfather Nicholas Admiral (originally Admiraal) immigrated to America from
Schoorl,
North Holland, with his parents Jacob Admiraal and Neeltje Bakker. In Danville, Illinois, he wed a
Kentucky-born
Missouri native, Virginia Moseby Holton. Virginia's maternal grandparents were Dr. August Groman and Gesina Marie Beckman, of
Odebolt, Iowa. Both were second-generation German immigrants.
Virginia was a
painter, and met Robert De Niro, Sr., an aspiring artist, at one of
Hans Hofmann's painting classes in
Provincetown, Massachusetts, they married in 1942. One year later Virginia gave birth to their son, award-winning actor and director, Robert De Niro, Jr. They divorced in 1945.
Virginia Admiral died on July 27, 2000, in
New York.
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