A First Look at Robert DeNiro as Bernie Madoff in HBO Movie

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By Anne Cohen September 10, 2015

HBO has released the first promotional still for its upcoming “Wizard of Lies,” which chronicles the rise and epic fall of Ponzi-schemer Bernie Madoff.

Robert De Niro plays an elegantly slipper-clad Bernard (notice the ankle-monitor), while Michelle Pfeiffer rocks the sweater-set look as his wife, Ruth. The film is currently in production.

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Anne Cohen was the Forward’s deputy digital media editor. When she’s not looking for the secret Jewish history of Voodoo in New Orleans, or making lists about Ruth Bader Ginsburg, she writes for The Assimilator. She graduated from the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism with an M.S. magazine concentration in 2012.

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