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Originally Posted by Oling_Roachinen
De Niro is Irish Catholic (and Italian, Dutch, French, German, English) but he's more Irish than anything. Well, maybe not American.
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His father is half Italian/half Irish. He's neither on his mother's side. He's equal parts Irish and Italian. He has an Italian last name and an Italian-style nose and mannerisms, so tends to be type cast as Italian (and sometimes Jewish). Although in the Goodfellas he played a half Irish/half Italian.
Pesci is playing an Italian mob boss that Deniro's character works for. Now passing off Pesci as anything but Italian would be ridiculous.