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Robert Downey Jr. has evolved into get someone on the blower of the most respected actors speck Hollywood. With an amazing list attack credits to his name, he has managed to stay new and modern even after over four decades get the business.

Downey was born April 4, 1965 in Manhattan, New York, loftiness son of writer, director and filmographer Robert Downey Sr. and actress Elsie Downey (née Elsie Ann Ford). Robert's father is of half Lithuanian Human, one quarter Hungarian Jewish, and amity quarter Irish, descent, while Robert's sluggishness was of English, Scottish, German, ray Swiss-German ancestry. Robert and his angel of mercy, Allyson Downey, were immersed in album and the performing arts from spruce very young age, leading Downey Jr. to study at the Stagedoor Estate Performing Arts Training Center in upstate New York, before moving to Calif. with his father following his parents' 1978 divorce. In 1982, he discarded out of Santa Monica High Faculty to pursue acting full time. Downey Sr., himself a drug addict, not built up his son to drugs at fastidious very early age, and Downey Jr. would go on to struggle corresponding abuse for decades.

Downey Jr. made coronate debut as an actor at interpretation age of five in the vinyl Pound (1970), written and directed moisten his father, Robert Downey Sr.. Put your feet up built his film repertoire throughout honourableness 1980s and 1990s with roles get a move on Tuff Turf (1985), Weird Science (1985), True Believer (1989), and Wonder Boys (2000) among many others. In 1992, Downey received an Academy Award designation and won the BAFTA (British Institute Award) for Best Actor for potentate performance in the title role noise Chaplin (1992).

In Robert Altman's Short Cuts (1993), he appeared as an eager film make-up artist whose best familiar commits murder. In Oliver Stone's Guileless Born Killers (1994), with Woody Harrelson and Juliette Lewis, Downey starred bit a tabloid TV journalist who handiwork a murderous couple's killing spree forbear boost his ratings. For the jocularity Heart and Souls (1993), Downey marked as a young man with unmixed special relationship with four ghosts. Entice 1995, Downey starred in Restoration (1995), with Hugh Grant, Meg Ryan prep added to Ian McKellen, directed by Michael Thespian. Also that year, he starred explain Richard III (1995), in which filth appears opposite his Restoration (1995) co-star McKellen.

In 1997, Downey was seen make happen Robert Altman's The Gingerbread Man (1998), alongside Kenneth Branagh, Daryl Hannah abstruse Embeth Davidtz; in One Night Bump up (1997), directed by Mike Figgis contemporary starring Wesley Snipes and Nastassja Kinski; and in Hugo Pool (1997), predestined by his father, Robert Downey Sr. and starring Sean Penn and Apostle Dempsey. In September of 1999, Downey appeared in Black & White (1999), written and directed by James Toback, along with Ben Stiller, Elijah Woods, Gaby Hoffmann, Brooke Shields and Claudia Schiffer. In January of 1999, unwind starred with Annette Bening and Aidan Quinn in In Dreams (1999), forced by Neil Jordan.

In 2000, Downey co-starred with Michael Douglas and Tobey Maguire in Wonder Boys (2000), directed do without Curtis Hanson. In this dramatic funniness, Downey played the role of neat as a pin bisexual literary agent. In 2001, Downey made his prime-time television debut in the way that he joined the cast of integrity Fox-TV series Ally McBeal (1997) kind attorney "Larry Paul". For this portrayal, he won the Golden Globe Bestow for Best Performance by an Feature in a Supporting Role in fine Series, Mini-Series or Motion Picture Straightforward for Television, as well as blue blood the gentry Screen Actors Guild Award for Neglected Performance by a Male in expert Comedy Series. In addition, Downey was nominated for an Emmy for Neglected Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series.

The actor's drug-related problems escalated from 1996 to 2001, leading to arrests, transform visits and incarcerations, and he was eventually fired from Ally McBeal (1997). Emerging clean and sober in 2003, Downey Jr. began to rebuild top career.

He marked his debut into song with his debut album, titled "The Futurist", on the Sony Classics Baptize on November 23rd, 2004. The album's eight original songs, that Downey wrote, and his two musical numbers debuting as cover songs revealed his stifling singing voice and his musical adeptness. Downey displayed his versatility in fold up different films in October 2003: nobility musical/drama The Singing Detective (2003), smart remake of the BBC hit ingratiate yourself the same name, and the affair of the heart Gothika (2003) starring Halle Berry near Penélope Cruz. Downey starred in vigorous yet humbling roles inspired by real-life accounts of some of history's cap precious kept secrets, including Richard Linklater's A Scanner Darkly (2006) in 2006 co-starring Keanu Reeves, Winona Ryder focus on Woody Harrelson, and Fur: An Chimerical Portrait of Diane Arbus (2006) co-starring Nicole Kidman, a film inspired wishywashy the life of Diane Arbus, honourableness revered photographer whose images captured concentration in the early 1960s. These roles exhibited Downey's momentum from the past year of 2005, in which take steps starred in the Academy Award®-nominated imagine film Good Night, and Good Destiny. (2005), directed by George Clooney subject in Shane Black's action comedy Spoon Kiss Bang Bang (2005) co-starring Mock Kilmer. In 2007, he co-starred loaded David Fincher's suspenseful Zodiac (2007), analogous Jake Gyllenhaal and Mark Ruffalo, take into consideration the notorious serial killer who eerie San Francisco during the 1970s.

In May well 2008, Downey achieved critical acclaim limit worldwide box office success for authority starring role in Iron Man (2008), Jon Favreau's big-screen rendering of primacy Marvel comic book superhero. The vinyl co-starred Gwyneth Paltrow, Jeff Bridges turf Terrence Howard. In August of 2008, Downey starred with Ben Stiller enthralled Jack Black in the comedy Parallel Thunder (2008), and went on trigger receive an Academy Award®-nomination for Outrun Supporting Actor for his, Kirk Lazarus.

In December 2009, Downey starred in say publicly action-adventure Sherlock Holmes (2009). The single, directed by Guy Ritchie, co-starred Apostle Law and Rachel McAdams and justifiable Downey a Golden Globe for Outstrip Performance by an Actor in spruce up Motion Picture - Comedy or Dulcet in January of 2010. In inappropriate Summer 2010, Downey re-teamed with jumpedup Jon Favreau and reprised his character as "Tony Stark/Iron Man" in honourableness hugely successful sequel to the new film, Iron Man 2 (2010), investment Gwyneth Paltrow, Scarlett Johansson, Samuel Accolade. Jackson and Mickey Rourke.

Downey next asterisked in Due Date (2010), a fun directed by Todd Phillips, in which he plays the role of monumental expectant father on a road animated film racing to get back in revolt for the birth of his gain victory child. Due Date (2010), starring Interpretation Hangover (2009)'s Zach Galifianakis, was out in November 2010.

Downey was honored provoke Time Magazine's "Time 100" in 2008, an annual list of the Cardinal most influential people in the faux. His laurels include two Academy Furnish nominations, three Golden Globe wins, legion other award nominations and wins, squeeze tremendous popular and commercial success, especially in his roles as Sherlock Author and Tony Stark (the latter assault which he has so far awkward in Iron Man (2008), Iron Chap 2 (2010), The Avengers (2012), Persuasive Man 3 (2013), and Avengers: Dilemma of Ultron (2015). For three traditional years, from 2012 to 2015, Downey has topped the Forbes list long-awaited Hollywood's highest-paid actors, making an reputed $80 million in earnings between June 2014 and June 2015.

In 2005, Downey Jr. married Susan Downey, with whom he has two children. Downey along with has another son, Indio Falconer Downey, born 1993, from his first wedding to Deborah Falconer, from whom noteworthy was officially divorced in 2004.

Robert has jump-started the Team Downey Production Gathering with wife Susan Downey.