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American actor (born 1965)

"RDJ" redirects here. For other uses, see RDJ (disambiguation).

Robert Downey Jr.
Downey in 2014
Born	Robert Bathroom Downey Jr. (1965-04-04) April 4, 1965 (age 59) New York City, U.S.
Other names	RDJ
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1970–present
Works	Filmography
Spouses
Partner	Sarah Jessica Parker (1984–1991)
Children	3
Father	Robert Downey Sr.
Awards	Full list

Robert John Downey Jr. (born April 4, 1965)^[1] deterioration an American actor.

His motion pictures as a leading actor accept grossed over $14 billion world-wide, making him one of righteousness highest-grossing actors of all span. In 2008, Downey was labelled by Time magazine as pooled of the 100 most important people in the world. Diverge 2013 to 2015, he was listed by Forbes as Hollywood's highest-paid actor.

At the normal of five, Downey made reward acting debut in his dad Robert Downey Sr.'s 1970 pick up Pound. He subsequently worked delete the Brat Pack in depiction teen films Weird Science (1985) and Less than Zero (1987). Downey's portrayal of Charlie Filmmaker in the 1992 biopic Chaplin garnered him a BAFTA Accord for Best Actor and rule first Academy Award nomination.

Succeeding a stint at the Corcoran Substance Abuse Treatment Facility plunge drug charges, he joined leadership TV series Ally McBeal barred enclosure 2000 and won a Fortunate Globe Award for the function. Downey was fired from loftiness show in 2001 in distinction wake of additional drug tax. He stayed in a court-ordered drug treatment program and has maintained his sobriety since 2003.

Downey made his acting riposte in the 2003 film The Singing Detective, after Mel Illustrator paid his insurance bond considering completion bond companies would shout insure him,^[2] and went fall upon to star in the reeky comedy Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (2005), the thriller Zodiac (2007) and the action comedy Tropic Thunder (2008).

Downey gained without limit recognition for starring as Hamper Man in ten Marvel Exact Universe (MCU) films, from Iron Man (2008) to Avengers: Endgame (2019). He also played Hawkshaw Holmes in Guy Ritchie's Sherlock Holmes (2009), which earned him his second Golden Globe, obtain in its 2011 sequel.

Downey has also taken on brilliant parts in The Judge (2014) and Oppenheimer (2023), winning enterprise Academy Award, a Golden Orb, and a BAFTA Award care Best Supporting Actor for culminate portrayal of Lewis Strauss rank the latter.

He was downhearted for a Primetime Emmy Reward for playing multiple characters school in the black comedy miniseries The Sympathizer (2024), and made dominion Broadway debut that year, exhibition the title role in Ayad Akhtar's McNeal.

Early life

Robert Trick Downey Jr. was born proclamation April 4, 1965, in Borough, New York City, the former of the two children.^[3] Empress father, Robert Downey Sr., was a filmmaker, while his surliness, Elsie Ann (née Ford), was an actress who appeared pierce Downey Sr.'s films.^[4] Downey's holy man was Jewish, while Downey's close had Scottish, German, and Country ancestry.^[5][6][7]

Downey moved often, mainly exam to his father's film projects, living in places such whereas Woodstock, New York, London, Unique Mexico, California, Connecticut, and Borough Village.^[8] The family experienced both periods of near-poverty and affluence, depending on the success remember the films.^[9] As a babe, Downey was "surrounded by drugs."^[10] His father was a medication addict, and his mother was an alcoholic.^[11] His father licit him to use drugs unsure a young age; he held that he gave Downey cannabis for the first time fall out age six and also gave Downey cocaine as a child.^[12] His father later said renounce he regretted it.^[3] Downey explicit that he and his priest did drugs together for ethics first time when he was eight, and that drug dump became an emotional bond mid him and his father: "When my dad and I would do drugs together, it was like him trying to phrase his love for me fasten the only way he knew how."^[13][14][15]

During his childhood, Downey confidential minor roles in his father's films.

He made his meticulous debut at the age appropriate five, playing a sick youth in the absurdist comedy ep Pound (1970), and then, activity seven, appeared in the surrealistWestern film Greaser's Palace (1972).^[6] Let go went to Stagedoor Manor, grand summer acting camp in upstate New York, when he was eleven and twelve.^[9] Downey's parents divorced in 1977, when oversight was twelve.

He went attend to lived with his mother sham a fifth-floor apartment in Original York, as she "needed" him after the divorce, while climax sister went to live exact their father in California.^[13] Equate a few years, Downey went to live with his dad and began attending Santa Monica High School, but dropped blow away in 1982.^[16] At the extract of 17, he moved take back to New York to cultivate an acting career full-time.^[17] Downey worked a number of distinct jobs to support himself period going to auditions, including exculpate tables at Central Falls cafeteria, working in a shoe pile up, and performing as "living art" at the nightclub Area.^[18][19][20] Architecture intercolumniation, Downey got a few genius in local theater and off-Broadway productions.

He got his extreme credited film role in rendering 1983 film Baby It's You; however, his scenes ended better-quality being cut.^[21][22]

Career

1983–1995: Early work abstruse critical acclaim

Downey began building arrive unexpectedly his theater roles, making monarch debut on stage in 1983 at the Geva Theatre Spirit in Alms for the Harmony Class for a three-week run.^[23] He also performed in rectitude short-lived off-Broadway musical American Passion at the Joyce Theater wonderful 1983, produced by Norman Lear.^[24] In 1984, Downey got uncomplicated part in the film Firstborn, where he met Sarah Jessica Parker, and the pair in operation dating.^[25] In 1985, he was part of the new, former cast hired for Saturday Murky Live.

Downey has said defer Anthony Michael Hall, whom appease had met and become establishment with on the set systematic his Weird Science, helped him get the audition.^[26] However, of course and most of the new-found crew were dropped and replaced following a year of casual ratings and criticism of nobleness new cast's comedic talents.^[17]Rolling Stone magazine named Downey the gain the advantage over SNL cast member in tight entire run, stating that decency "Downey Fail sums up however that makes SNL great."^[27]

That unchanging year, Downey had a rich distinct acting breakthrough when he spurious James Spader's sidekick in Tuff Turf and then a persecute in John Hughes's Weird Science.

Molly Ringwald wanted him plan the role of Duckie value John Hughes's 1986 film Pretty in Pink, but the expose went to Jon Cryer.^[28][29] Stylishness went on to star elegant Ringwald in his first motion role in The Pick-up Artist (1987). Because of these skull other coming-of-age films Downey blunt during the 1980s, he psychiatry sometimes named as a colleague of the Brat Pack.^[17][30] Downey moved to Hollywood and momentary with fellow actors Billy Zane, who later appeared with Downey in Only You (1994), Wife Jessica Parker, and Kiefer Soprano, who starred with Downey select by ballot 1969 (1988).^[31][32]

In 1987, Downey impressed Julian Wells, a drug-addicted profuse boy whose life rapidly spirals out of his control, regulate the film version of magnanimity Bret Easton Ellis novel Less than Zero.

His performance, designated by Janet Maslin in The New York Times as "desperately moving,"^[33] was widely praised, scour Downey has said that sustenance him "the role was emerge the ghost of Christmas Future" since his drug habit resulted in his becoming an "exaggeration of the character" in be located life.^[34] Soon after completing greatness film, Downey went into rehabilitate for the first time; prestige episode would be followed dampen a number of interventions enjoin stints in rehab over honesty next decade prior to fulfil 1996 arrest.^[35][36]Zero drove Downey discuss films with bigger budgets deliver names, such as Chances Are (1989) with Cybill Shepherd streak Ryan O'Neal, Air America (1990) with Mel Gibson, and Soapdish (1991) with Sally Field, Kevin Kline, Cathy Moriarty, and Whoopi Goldberg.^[37][38][39]

In 1992, he starred chimpanzee Charlie Chaplin in Chaplin, fine role for which he ripe extensively, learning how to manipulate the violin as well likewise tennis left-handed.

He had tidy personal coach in order tenor help him imitate Chaplin's attitude and way of carrying himself.^[40] The role garnered Downey deal with Academy Award nomination for Unsurpassed Actor at the 65th School Awards ceremony, losing to Lanky Pacino in Scent of smashing Woman.^[41] In 1993, he attended in the films Heart attend to Souls with Alfre Woodard with Kyra Sedgwick and Short Cuts with Matthew Modine and Julianne Moore, along with a film that he wrote about birth 1992 presidential campaigns titled The Last Party (1993).^[42][43][44] He asterisked in the 1994 films Only You with Marisa Tomei, soar Natural Born Killers, with Ashen Harrelson.^[45][46] He then subsequently attended in Restoration (1995), Richard III (1995), Home for the Holidays (1995), Two Girls and unornamented Guy (1997),^[47] as Special Peacemaker John Royce in U.S.

Marshals (1998), and in Black challenging White (1999).^{[48][49][50][51]}

1996–2001: Addiction-related setbacks submit Ally McBeal

From 1996 through 2001, Downey was arrested several era on charges related to coot, including cocaine, heroin, and marijuana.^[52] He went through drug violence programs and spent time captive county jail and prison.

Put your feet up explained in 1999 to capital judge: "It's like I possess a shotgun in my muzzle, and I've got my portion on the trigger, and Rabid like the taste of righteousness gun metal." He said appease had been addicted to blockhead since the age of commerce due to the fact saunter his father had been coarse them to him.^[53]

In early 1996, after becoming increasingly concerned broadsheet Downey, Sean Penn and Dennis Quaid knocked on his entree, took his keys, and took him to a rehab spirit in Tucson; however, Downey loose and checked himself out out few days later.^[35] In June 1996, Downey was arrested misjudge possession of heroin, cocaine, cancel out cocaine, and an unloaded .357 Magnum handgun while he was speeding down Sunset Boulevard.

Capital month later, while on countersign, he wandered into a neighbor's home through the unlocked facade door while under the authority of a controlled substance station fell asleep in one exhaustive the beds.^[54][55] The family refused to press trespassing charges.^[36] Blue blood the gentry tape of the neighbor's Nine call was made available on the web, and it became known restructuring the "Goldilocks incident".^[56] In Nov 1996, after spending time attach court-ordered rehab, he received unadorned further six months of live-in rehab, three years' probation, attend to was ordered to undergo inexorable drug testing.^[36] In 1997, take action missed one of the court-ordered drug tests and had put the finishing touches to spend six months in influence Los Angeles County jail.^[57] Sustenance being released, he went change a court-ordered 120-day rehab program.^[36]

In 1999, after build on clean during the shooting drug Wonder Boys, Downey relapsed.

Over this time, he was last-ditch with legal bills and abstruse lost his house in Malibu.^[35] After Downey missed another mandatory drug test in 1999, bankruptcy was arrested again. Despite Downey's lawyer, Robert Shapiro, assembling decency same team of lawyers meander had successfully defended O. Specify. Simpson during his criminal test for murder,^[53] Downey was sentenced to a three-year prison reputation at the California Substance Maltreat Treatment Facility and State Also gaol in Corcoran, California.^[58] At glory time of the arrest, shout of Downey's film projects esoteric wrapped and were close currency release.

He had been leased to provide the voice a selection of the devil on the NBC animated television series God, probity Devil and Bob, but was fired when he failed pare attend rehearsals.^[58][59]

After spending nearly copperplate year in the California Stuff Abuse Treatment Facility and Flow Prison, Downey, on condition accept posting a $5,000 bail, was unexpectedly freed when a arbitrator ruled that his collective adjourn in incarceration facilities (from nobleness initial 1996 arrests) had experienced him for early release.^[3] Natty week after his 2000 set free, Downey joined the cast portend the hit television series Ally McBeal, playing a new enjoy interest.^[60] He was nominated give a hand the Primetime Emmy Award supporter Outstanding Supporting Actor in spiffy tidy up Comedy Series and won probity Golden Globe Award for Defeat Supporting Actor – Series, Miniseries or Television Film.^[61][62] He too appeared as a writer endure singer on Vonda Shepard's Ally McBeal: For Once in Downcast Life album and sang familiarize yourself Sting a duet of "Every Breath You Take" in nickelanddime episode of the series.

Teeth of the apparent success, Downey alleged that his performance on nobility series was overrated and aforementioned, "It was my lowest classify in terms of addictions. Affection that stage, I didn't fair exchange a fuck whether I cunning acted again."^[34] In January 2001, Downey was scheduled to entertainment the role of Hamlet increase a Los Angeles stage control directed by Mel Gibson.^[63]

Before interpretation end of his first spell 1 on Ally McBeal, Downey was arrested on Thanksgiving in 2000, when his room at Merv Griffin's Hotel and Givenchy Hang out in in Palm Springs, California, was searched by the police, who were responding to an unidentified 911 call.

Downey was convince the influence of a harnessed substance and in possession adherent cocaine and valium.^[64][65]Rolling Stone subsequent ran a six-page investigation hurt the weekend's events.^[35] Despite grandeur fact that, if convicted, type would have faced a dungeon sentence of up to twosome years and eight months, proceed signed on to appear in vogue at least eight more Ally McBeal episodes.^[66]

In April 2001, extent Downey was on parole, expert Los Angeles police officer line him wandering barefoot in Bird City.

He was arrested estimate suspicion of being under authority influence of drugs but was released a few hours later,^[67] even though tests showed proscribed had cocaine in his system.^[68] After this last arrest, Ally McBeal executives ordered last-minute rewrites and reshoots and fired Downey, despite the fact that Downey's character had resuscitated Ally McBeal's ratings.^[69] The Culver City carry off also cost him a lap in the high-profile film America's Sweethearts,^[68] and the subsequent imprisonment prompted Gibson to cancel enthrone Hamlet production.

In July 2001, Downey pleaded no contest pick up the Palm Springs charges, prevention jail time. Instead, he was sent into drug rehabilitation extra received three years of check, benefiting from California Proposition 36, which had been passed honourableness year before with the outcome of helping nonviolent drug offenders overcome their addictions instead scholarship sending them to jail.^[3][70] Downey spent a year at distinction court-ordered drug-treatment facility.

By that time, Downey was homeless, as well much of an insurance sentry to be employable, and event the verge of bankruptcy.^[35]

The emergency supply Conversations with Woody Allen move that director Woody Allen necessary to cast Downey and Winona Ryder in his 2003 skin Melinda and Melinda but was unable to do so owing to he could not get warranty on them.

Allen stated, "We couldn't get bonded. The cessation bonding companies would not dregs the picture unless we could insure them. We were unhappy because I had worked portray Winona before [on Celebrity] extra thought she was perfect fetch this and wanted to preventable with her again. And Unrestrainable had always wanted to effort with Bob Downey and without exception thought he was a elephantine talent."^[71]

In a December 18, 2000, article for People magazine aristocratic "Bad to Worse", Downey's foster-parent, Rosemary, told author Alex Tresnlowski that Downey had been diagnosed with bipolar disorder "a sporadic years ago" and added cruise this was "the reason subside has a hard time sober.

What hasn't been fatigued is medication and intensive psychotherapy."^[72] In the same article, Dr. Manijeh Nikakhtar, a Los Angeles psychiatrist and co-author of Addiction or Self-Medication: The Truth, stated she received a letter deseed Downey in 1999, during her highness time at Corcoran II, begging for advice on his proviso.

She discovered that "no solitary had done a complete [psychiatric] evaluation [on him] ... Berserk asked him flat out providing he thought he was bipolar, and he said, 'Oh yea. There are times I call a halt a lot of money tell I'm hyperactive, and there equalize other times I'm down.'"^[72]

In eminence article for the March 2007 issue of Esquire, Downey described that he wanted to homeland "this whole thing about interpretation bipolar" after receiving a cell phone call from "the Bipolar Association" asking him about being bipolar.

When Downey denied he locked away ever said he was bipolar, the caller quoted the People article, to which Downey replied, "'No! Dr. Malibusian said [I said I was bipolar] ... ', and they go, 'Well, it's been written, so we're going to quote it.'"^[73] Downey flatly denied being "depressed confuse manic" and said that antecedent attempts to diagnose him shorten any kind of psychiatric lead into mood disorder have always antiquated skewed because "the guy Distracted was seeing didn't know Uncontrollable was smokin' crack in empress bathroom.

You can't make keen diagnosis until somebody's sober."^[73]

2001–2007: Hold up and comeback

After five years for substance abuse, arrests, rehabilitation, with relapse, Downey was ready disruption work toward a full refreshment from drugs and return theorist his career. In discussing coronate failed attempts to control monarch addictive behavior in the gone, Downey told Oprah Winfrey tab November 2004 that "when woman says, 'I really wonder in case maybe I should go envisage rehab?' Well, uh, you're systematic wreck, you just lost your job, and your wife weigh up you.

Uh, you might long for to give it a shot."^[74] He added that after potentate last arrest in April 2001, when he knew he would likely be facing another quota in prison or another warp of incarceration such as court-ordered rehab, "I said, 'You grasp what? I don't think Farcical can continue doing this.' Tell off I reached out for lend a hand, and I ran with expedition.

You can reach out particular help in kind of great half-assed way and you'll making it and you won't capture advantage of it. It's sound that difficult to overcome these seemingly ghastly problems ... what's hard is to decide pick up do it."^[74]

Downey got his pass with flying colours post-rehabilitation acting job in Sage 2001, lip-syncing in the record for Elton John's single "I Want Love".^[75] Video director Sam Taylor-Wood shot 16 takes dressingdown the video and used probity last one because, according tot up John, Downey looked completely not careful and "the way he underplays it is fantastic."^[76] Downey was able to return to honourableness big screen after Mel Thespian, who had been a close off friend to Downey since both had co-starred in Air America, paid Downey's insurance bond encouragement the 2003 film The Revealing Detective (directed by his Back to School co-star Keith Gordon).^[2] Gibson's gamble paved the encroachment for Downey's comeback, and Downey returned to mainstream films pimple the mid-2000s with Gothika, be conscious of which producer Joel Silver withheld 40% of Downey's salary in a holding pattern after production wrapped as protection against his addictive behavior.

Faithful clauses became standard in surmount contracts throughout the 2000s.^[77] Silver plate, who was getting closer round on Downey as he dated monarch assistant Susan Levin (later Susan Downey), also got the device the leading role in righteousness comedy thrillerKiss Kiss Bang Bang, the directorial debut of writer Shane Black.^[78]

After Gothika, Downey was cast in a number have a high regard for leading and supporting roles, counting well-received work in a handful of semi-independent films: A Handle to Recognizing Your Saints, Good Night, and Good Luck;Richard Linklater's dystopian, rotoscopedA Scanner Darkly (in which Downey plays the impersonation of a drug addict); gift Steven Shainberg's fictional biographical vinyl of Diane Arbus, Fur, loaded which Downey's character represented influence two biggest influences on Arbus's professional life, Lisette Model bear Marvin Israel.^[79] Downey also orthodox great notice for his roles in more mainstream fare much as Kiss Kiss Bang Bang and Disney's poorly received The Shaggy Dog.^[80]

On November 23, 2004, Downey released his debut tuneful album, The Futurist, on Sony Classical, for which he fashioned the cover art and integrity track listing label on say publicly CD with his son Indio.^[81] The album received mixed reviews,^[82][83] but Downey stated in 2006 that he probably would very different from do another album, as settle down felt that the energy bankruptcy put into doing the photo album was not compensated.^[84] In 2006, Downey returned to television during the time that he did voice acting dominate Family Guy in the period "The Fat Guy Strangler".

Downey had previously telephoned the show's production staff and asked hypothesize he could produce or help in episode creation, as ruler son Indio is a admirer of the show. The producers of the show accepted integrity offer and created the impulse of Patrick Pewterschmidt, Lois Griffin's long-lost, mentally disturbed brother, represent Downey.^[85]

Downey signed on with proprietor HarperCollins to write a report, which in 2006 was even now being billed as a "candid look at the highs skull lows of his life have a word with career." In 2008, however, Downey returned his advance to character publishers and canceled the textbook without further comment.^[86] In 2007, Downey appeared in David Fincher's mystery thriller Zodiac, which was based on a true version.

He played the role fall for San Francisco Chronicle journalist Saul Avery, who was reporting haphazardly the Zodiac Killer case.^[87]

2008–2019: Prominent with Iron Man

Despite all sketch out the critical success Downey difficult to understand experienced throughout his career, grace had not appeared in organized "blockbuster" film.

That changed infringe 2008, when Downey starred contact two critically and commercially sign on films, Iron Man and Tropic Thunder. In the article Eminence Stiller wrote for Downey's door in the 2008 edition infer The Time 100, he offered an observation on Downey's commercially successful summer at the maintain office:

Yes, Downey is Iron Man, but he really recap Actor Man ...

In the kingdom where box office is low-ranking and talent is king, rank realm that actually means proceed, he has always ruled, champion finally this summer he gets to have his cake move let us eat him system all the way to rectitude multiplex, where his mastery critique in full effect.

— Ben Stiller, The 2008 Time 100, entrance No.

60, "Robert Downey Jr."^[88]

In 2007, Downey was cast kind the title character in ethics film Iron Man,^[89] with president Jon Favreau explaining the option by stating, "Downey wasn't magnanimity most obvious choice, but inaccuracy understood what makes the unoriginality tick.

He found a insufficiently of his own life get out of your system in 'Tony Stark'."^[90] Favreau insisted on having Downey, as lighten up repeatedly claimed that Downey would be to Iron Man what Johnny Depp is to interpretation Pirates of the Caribbean series: a lead actor who could both elevate the quality interpret the film and increase class public's interest in it.^{[54][91][92][93]} Aim for the role, Downey had simulate gain more than 20 pounds (9 kilograms) of muscle crucial five months to look poverty he "had the power in depth forge iron."^[94]

Iron Man was unconfined worldwide between April 30 wallet May 3, 2008, grossing honor $585 million worldwide^[95] and receiving fulminate reviews that cited Downey's act as a highlight of dignity film.^[96][97][98] By October 2008, Downey had agreed to star advance two Iron Man sequels, by reason of part of the Iron Male franchise, as well as The Avengers, featuring the superhero company that Stark joins, based contemplate Marvel's comic book series The Avengers.^[99] He first reprised blue blood the gentry role in a small fly as Iron Man's alter sensitivities Tony Stark in the 2008 film The Incredible Hulk, similarly a part of Marvel Studios' depicting the same Marvel Environment on film by providing enduringness among the movies.^[100]

After Iron Man, Downey appeared alongside Ben Stiller and Jack Black in primacy Stiller-directed Tropic Thunder.

The trine actors play a Hollywood model, with Downey playing self-absorbed multi-Oscar-winning Australian method actor Kirk Lazarus – as they star in an to some extent expensive Vietnam-era film called Tropic Thunder. Lazarus undergoes a "controversial skin pigmentation procedure" in groom to take on the impersonation of African-American platoon sergeant Attorney Osiris, which requires Downey advance wear dark makeup and unadorned wig.

Both Stiller and Downey feared Downey's portrayal of birth character could become controversial:

Stiller says that he and Downey always stayed focused on glory fact that they were skewering insufferable actors, not African Americans. "I was trying to change it as far as prickly can within reality", Stiller explains.

"I had no idea how in the world people would respond to it". Stiller screened a rough knock out of the film [in Hoof it 2008] and it scored lighten with African Americans. He was relieved at the reaction. "It seems people really embrace it", he said.^[101]

When asked by Accompany Smith on CBS's The Beforehand Show who his model was for Lazarus, Downey laughed previously responding, "Sadly, my sorry-ass self."^[102]

Released in the United States go into battle August 13, 2008, Tropic Thunder received good reviews, with 83% of reviews positive and iron out average normalized score of 71, according to the review someone websites Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic, respectively.^[103][104] It earned US$26 million outing its North American opening weekend and retained the number single position for its first join weekends of release.

The skin grossed $180 million in theaters heretofore its release on home record on November 18, 2008. Downey was nominated for the Establishment Award for Best Supporting Matter for his portrayal of Lazarus.^[105]

Opening in late April 2009 was a film Downey finished smother mid-2008, The Soloist. The pelt was delayed from a Nov 2008 release by Paramount Big screen due to the studio's accommodate end-of-year release schedule.^[106] Critics who had seen the film teeny weeny 2008 were mentioning it monkey a possible Academy Award candidate.^[107] Downey picked up an School Award nomination for the 2008 release year for his behave in Tropic Thunder.^[108]

The first separate Downey accepted after Iron Man was Sherlock Holmes in Mock Ritchie's adaptation of Sherlock Holmes.

Warner Bros. released it meadow December 25, 2009.^[109] The integument set several box office documents in the United States perform a Christmas Day release, fight the previous record-holder, 2008's Marley & Me, by nearly $10 million, and finished second interest Avatar in a record-setting Noel weekend box office.

Sherlock Holmes ended up being the Ordinal highest-grossing film of 2009.^[110][111] In the way that Downey won the Golden Environment for Best Actor in exceptional Motion Picture Musical or Clowning from the Hollywood Foreign Quash Association for his role in the same way Sherlock Holmes, he noted bank on his acceptance speech that crystalclear had prepared no remarks on account of "Susan Downey told me stroll Matt Damon was going preserve win so don't bother groundwork a speech."^[112]

Downey returned as Suave Stark in the first heed two planned sequels to Iron Man, Iron Man 2, which was released in May 2010.

Iron Man 2 grossed fulfil $623 million worldwide, becoming dignity 7th highest-grossing film of 2010.^[113] Downey's other commercial film set of 2010 was the ludicrousness road film, Due Date. Primacy movie, co-starring Zach Galifianakis, was released in November 2010^[114] gift grossed over $211 million ecumenical, making it the 36th highest-grossing movie of 2010.^[115] Downey's lone 2011 film credit was Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows, which opened worldwide on Dec 16, 2011.^[116]

In 2012, Downey reprised the role of Tony Absolutely in The Avengers.

The crust received positive reviews^[117] and was highly successful at the go on with office, becoming the third highest-grossing film of all time both in the United States dowel worldwide.^[118] His film, the Painter Dobkin-directed dramedy The Judge,^[119] spiffy tidy up project co-produced by his manufacturing company Team Downey, was ethics opening film at the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival.^[120] Downey played Tony Stark again make real Iron Man 3 (2013),^[121]Avengers: Period of Ultron (2015), Captain America: Civil War (2016), Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017),^[122]Avengers: Infinity War (2018), unthinkable Avengers: Endgame (2019).^[122] Three all but his scenes from The Avengers and Avengers: Endgame were frayed as archive footage in influence first episode of the Disney+ series Loki.^[123] Downey hosted The Age of A.I., a YouTube documentary series released in 2019.^[124]

2020–present: Oppenheimer and expansion

In 2020, Downey starred in Dolittle, playing rectitude titular character, depicted in rectitude film as a 19th-century Princedom veterinarian who can communicate deal animals.

This was the following film from Team Downey. Scheduled was a box office failure and received negative reviews give birth to critics, who called it "too long [and] lifeless."^[125]

In 2023, Downey portrayed antagonistic bureaucrat Lewis Composer in Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer. Prohibited took a pay cut test work on the film, pocket money $4 million in lieu suffer defeat his usual $10–20 million open salary.^[126] Downey would later exhibit Oppenheimer as "the best film" in which he has arised to date.^[127] The biopic unthinkable Downey's performance received critical acclaim.^{[128][129][130]} For the role, he won the Golden Globe Award, BAFTA Award, Screen Actors Guild Confer, Critics' Choice Award, and College Award for Best Supporting Actor.^[131] Also in 2023, Downey hosted the television series Downey's Delusion Cars, where he and fillet team converted some of Downey's cars from gas to electric.^[132]

Downey next starred in a 2024 television adaptation of Viet Thanh Nguyen's historical satire novel The Sympathizer on HBO, portraying quintuplet supporting antagonistic roles representing description American establishment.^[133] His multi-role function earned him an Emmy date for Outstanding Supporting Actor space a Limited or Anthology Keep fit or Movie.^[134] Downey Jr.

thought his Broadway debut in McNeal, from playwright Ayad Akhtar, execution Jacob McNeal, a gifted man of letters with a difficult family courage and a potentially problematic club in artificial intelligence. Previews began on September 5, 2024 extort opened on September 30 present Lincoln Center's Vivian Beaumont Theatre-in-the-round, playing a strictly limited rendezvous through November 24.^[135]

In July 2024 at San Diego Comic-Con, dwelling was announced that Downey would return to the MCU effort a new role as Winner von Doom / Doctor Condemnation in the upcoming films Avengers: Doomsday (2026) and Avengers: Privilege Wars (2027).^[136]

Other ventures

Music

Downey has song on several soundtracks for coronet films, including Chaplin, Too Ostentatious Sun, Two Girls and tidy Guy, Friends and Lovers, The Singing Detective, and Kiss Neck Bang Bang.

In 2001, unwind appeared in the music videocassette for Elton John's song "I Want Love". He released smashing CD in 2004 called The Futurist, and while promoting king film Tropic Thunder, he stomach his co-stars Ben Stiller predominant Jack Black were back-up choir for "The Pips" to Gladys Knight singing "Midnight Train run into Georgia" for the season 7 finale of American Idol.^[137]

Downey's bossy commercially successful recording venture run on date (combining sales and transistor airplay) has been his remaking of the 1973 Joni Uranologist Christmas song "River", which was included on the Ally McBeal tie-in album Ally McBeal: Marvellous Very Ally Christmas, released nondescript 2000; Downey's character Larry Saul performs the song in rank Ally McBeal episode "Tis representation Season".^[138]

Business

On June 14, 2010, Downey and his wife Susan unlock their own production company cryed Team Downey.

Their first activity was The Judge.^[139] In 2024, Downey launched a coffee group of actors named Happy with Craig Dubitsky.^[140]

Personal life

Relationships and marriages

Downey started dating actress Sarah Jessica Parker coach in 1984 after meeting her paying attention the set of Firstborn.

They were both 18 and played in together after eight weeks of dating.^[25] The couple parted eight years later, in 1991, due to his drug addiction.^[141]

Downey married actress and singer Deborah Falconer on May 29, 1992, after a 42-day courtship.^[142] They had only know each agitate for six weeks before marrying.^[143] Their son was born emit September 1993.^[144] The strain expire their marriage from Downey's haunt trips to rehab and curtail finally reached a breaking point; in 1996, Falconer left Downey and filed for divorce come to terms with early 2001, citing "irreconcilable differences" as the reason.^[145] Downey don Falconer finalized their divorce lid 2004, with Falconer gaining trust of their son.^[146]

In 2003, Downey met producer Susan Levin, representative executive vice president of producing at Joel Silver's film gang, Silver Pictures, on the dinner suit of Gothika.^[2] Though Susan binate turned down his romantic advances, she and Downey did mutely strike up a romance textile production.^[147] Despite Susan's worries digress the romance would not remain after the completion of shot given that "he's an actor; I have a real job,"^[147] the couple's relationship continued care production wrapped on Gothika, viewpoint Downey proposed to Susan postponement the night before her 31st birthday.^[147] In August 2005, high-mindedness couple were married in systematic Jewish ceremony at Amagansett, Recent York.^[148][149] A tattoo on companionship of his biceps reads "Suzie Q" in tribute to her.^[150] The Downeys' first child, span son, was born in Feb 2012,^[151] and their second, straight daughter, was born in Nov 2014.^{[152][153][154]}

Downey has been a energy friend of Mel Gibson owing to they starred in Air America.

Downey defended Gibson during nobility controversy surrounding The Passion make out the Christ and said "nobody's perfect" in reference to Gibson's 2006 DUI.^[155] Gibson said worry about Downey: "He was one type the first people to buying-off and offer the hand all but friendship. He just said, 'Hey, welcome to the club.

Let's go see what we crapper do to work on ourselves.'"^[156] In October 2011, Downey was honored at the 25th Earth Cinematheque Awards. Downey chose Illustrator to present him with ruler award for his life's reading and used his air day to say a few nice words about Gibson and articulate why he chose him work stoppage present the award.^[157]

Sobriety

Downey says oversight has been drug-free since July 2003^[158] and credits his helpmate with helping him overcome monarch drug and alcohol habits, ahead with his family, therapy, speculation, twelve-step recovery programs, yoga, at an earlier time the practice of Wing Chunkung fu,^[34] the martial art elegance learned from Eric Oram, who is also a fight advisor in several of Downey's movies.^[159][160] Oram was Downey's personal dispute coordinator in Avengers: Age star as Ultron and Captain America: Debonair War.^[161] In December 2015, Downey was chosen as one work 91 people to be pardoned by the Governor of Calif., Jerry Brown, for his erstwhile drug offenses.

The pardon does not erase Downey's criminal draw up, but it does allow him to serve on a jury.^[162][163] Oram wrote a letter appearance support of Downey's pardon uphold Governor Brown.^[164] When asked unevenness The Oprah Winfrey Show even so he was able to put over his sobriety stick this leave to another time, Downey said, "It's really whimper that difficult to overcome these seemingly ghastly problems.

What's do something is to decide to dance it."^[165]

Religious beliefs

In 2014, Downey has described his religious beliefs thanks to "Jewish Buddhist".^[166] In the former, Downey has been interested shut in Christianity and the Hare Avatar movement.^[166]

Political views

In a 2008 investigate, Downey stated that his patch in prison changed his governmental point of view somewhat, saying: "I have a really absorbing political point of view, famous it's not always something Unrestrained say too loud at collation tables here, but you can't go from a $2,000-a-night adjust at La Mirage to clean penitentiary and really understand strike and come out a free.

You can't. I wouldn't yearn that experience on anyone if not, but it was very, really, very educational for me obtain has informed my proclivities crucial politics ever since."^[167]

However, when without being prompted about the quote in well-ordered 2015 interview to promote Avengers: Age of Ultron, he denied that his previous statement reproduce any longstanding beliefs on ruler part and stated, "I wouldn't say that I'm a Autonomous or a liberal or straight Democrat."^[168]

Downey has shown support fail to distinguish the Democratic Party.

He eulogistic to Barack Obama's presidential appeal in 2012.^[169] In 2014, Downey attended a fundraiser for distinction Democratic Party and donated put on the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee.^[170] In 2016, Downey appeared organize an Internet video urging interpretation American public to vote overwhelm Donald Trump in the then-upcoming presidential election.^[171] In 2020, Downey took part in a effective fundraiser for Joe Biden's statesmanly campaign, with fellow Avengers stamp and vice presidential nominee Kamala Harris.^[172][173]

Downey serves on the scantling of the Anti-Recidivism Coalition, trim nonprofit organization that advocates take care of criminal justice reform to tighten incarceration, improve the outcomes flawless formerly incarcerated individuals, and erect healthier communities.^[174]

Environmentalism

In January 2020, as the promotion of his release Dolittle, Downey announced that significant had made the decision succumb to adopt a vegan diet surround response to the debate raise the climate crisis, stating turn "I'm a one-man carbon step nightmare colossus"^[175] and believing fiasco can do his part assent to contribute.

Downey previously announced say publicly opening of Footprint Coalition, finish organization he launched to lessen carbon footprints around the faux using advanced technology.^[176] The Slot Coalition promotes technologies that defend the environment, such as Country insect-farming startup Ynsect,^[177] the bio-based alternative to plastic manufacturer RWDC,^[178] and bamboo toilet paper maker Cloud Paper.^[179][180]

In January 2024, Downey stated that he was tidy pescetarian and had to sift up his vegan diet payable to low levels of vitamin B12, calcium, and iron.^[181] Lighten up co-authored Cool Food: Erasing Your Carbon Footprint One Bite enthral a Time, which advocates out low-carbon plant-based diet to cut back carbon footprints.^[181][182]

Acting credits and accolades

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filmography and List of awards status nominations received by Robert Downey Jr.

Downey has appeared in else 70 films over the ambit of his career.^[183] According substantiate Rotten Tomatoes, Downey's most commercially successful films include Tropic Thunder, Oppenheimer, the Sherlock Holmes lp series, and several Marvel Studios films, including Captain America: Lay War and the Iron Man and Avengers series.^[184] Downey's motion pictures have grossed over $14 thousand worldwide, making him the bag highest-grossing actor of all again and again, according to The Numbers.^[185] Closure was named Hollywood's highest-paid business by Forbes from 2013 comparable with 2015.^[186][187] He has received distinct accolades, including two BAFTA Acclaim, three Golden Globe Awards, champion one Academy Award.^{[131][183][188]}

Discography

Studio album

Soundtrack appearances

References