Life and career

De Niro was born in New York City, New York. She is the daughter of actress Diahnne Abbott, and the adopted daughter of actor Robert De Niro, whose last name she took upon her mother's marriage to him in 1976. She was named after the river Drina in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia.

De Niro enjoyed a bohemian upbringing that saw her divide her time between New York City, Los Angeles, and Italy. This transient lifestyle is said to have been a driving factor in her embrace of the arts. Post schooling, she began her career in the entertainment industry working as a model. Further driven by her interest in fashion and music she became a DJ and Fashion Consultant. This led her to work as a musical supervisor for Giorgio Armani, serving as the creative force behind the coordination of musical backdrops for high fashion's most exclusive runway shows.

Her transition to the field of acting began after landing a role in Allison Anders's Grace of My Heart. Since her premiere role, De Niro has worked with and trained under Larry Moss, author of the acting guide, Intent to Live, and Susan Batson of The Black Nexxus Acting Studio. With the turn of the millennium, De Niro set her sights on writing and directing her first film, Girls and Dolls. This documentary examined a young stylist's obsession with her dolls, and won De Niro the Best Directorial Debut Award at the New York Independent Film/Video Festival in 2001.

More recently De Niro's endeavors have led her back to Italy, where she worked on her latest film. Since 2006, she has been the spokesperson for the Kageno Orphan Sponsorship Program, which helps provide care for orphaned children in Kageno villages. De Niro currently lives in New York City with her son.

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1996	Grace of My Heart	Receptionist #1
1997	Wag the Dog	Gate Stewardess
1998	Too Tired to Die	Waitress
1998	Great Expectations	Marcy
1999	At First Sight	Caroline
1999	On the Run	Rita
1999	24 Hour Woman, TheThe 24 Hour Woman	Lori
1999	Personals	Sherie
1999	Entropy	Waitress
2000	Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle, TheThe Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle	RBTV Lackey
2001	Freewheeling in Roma	Keechie
2002	Showtime	Annie
2002	Ghetto Dawg	Semi
2002	City by the Sea	Vanessa Hansen
2002	Soliloquy	Kara
2003	Death of a Dynasty	Female Staff Writer
2005	Freezerburn	Nada the Handler
2005	Collection, TheThe Collection	Various
2007	Lovebirds, TheThe Lovebirds	Stella Clark
2009	Karma, Confessions and Holi	Megan
2009	ExTerminators	Dr. Press
2009	Day in the Life, AA Day in the Life	P
2011	New Year's Eve	Ahern Waitress - Ahern Party
2014	Hands of Stone	Adele
2014	Welcome to New York	Executive Assistant
2015	The Intern	Hotel Manager
2015	Joy	Cindy

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1998	Witness to the Mob	Girl in beauty shop
2002	Groovenians, TheThe Groovenians	Glindy (voice)	TV short
2012	NYC 22	SVU Det. Irma Bolland	Episode: "Block Party"

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