Which Robert De Niro character drives a New York taxi in Taxi Driver?

Robert De Niro plays Travis Bickle, the New York taxi driver in Taxi Driver.

Bickle is the central character of Martin Scorsese’s 1976 film, written by Paul Schrader. He is a former U.S. Marine who takes a graveyard-shift cab-driving job because chronic insomnia and isolation have left him without a stable routine. Driving through New York at night exposes him to the city’s crime and desperation, which intensifies his alienation and violent fantasies.

The character is not based on a conventional heroic cabbie. Bickle becomes obsessed with “cleaning up” the city and later attempts to assassinate presidential candidate Charles Palantine. He also intervenes in the life of Iris, a young runaway involved in prostitution, leading to the film’s bloody climax and the public’s conflicted view of him as a hero.

The other options are also De Niro roles, which makes the question deliberately tricky. Jimmy Conway is from Goodfellas, Rupert Pupkin from The King of Comedy, and Jake LaMotta from Raging Bull. Bickle is especially associated with the improvised mirror scene and the line “You talkin’ to me?”