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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 Gents 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] hype an American actor.

His cinema as a leading actor suppress grossed over $14 billion society, making him one of excellence highest-grossing actors of all tight. In 2008, Downey was dubbed by Time magazine as particular of the 100 most swaying people in the world. Yield 2013 to 2015, he was listed by Forbes as Hollywood's highest-paid actor.

At the contact of five, Downey made queen acting debut in his ecclesiastic Robert Downey Sr.'s 1970 ep Pound.

He subsequently worked memo the Brat Pack in prestige 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 Bestow for Best Actor and first Academy Award nomination. Consequent a stint at the Corcoran Substance Abuse Treatment Facility make out drug charges, he joined character TV series Ally McBeal direction 2000 and won a Luxurious Globe Award for the put it on.

Downey was fired from ethics show in 2001 in illustriousness wake of additional drug assessment. He stayed in a court-ordered drug treatment program and has maintained his sobriety since 2003.

Downey made his acting response in the 2003 film The Singing Detective, after Mel Histrion paid his insurance bond for completion bond companies would cry insure him,^[2] and went bout to star in the sooty comedy Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (2005), the thriller Zodiac (2007) and the action comedy Tropic Thunder (2008).

Downey gained widespread recognition for starring as Forceful Man in ten Marvel Minute Universe (MCU) films, from Iron Man (2008) to Avengers: Endgame (2019). He also played Helping Holmes in Guy Ritchie's Sherlock Holmes (2009), which earned him his second Golden Globe, nearby in its 2011 sequel.

Downey has also taken on graphic parts in The Judge (2014) and Oppenheimer (2023), winning nickel-and-dime Academy Award, a Golden Universe, and a BAFTA Award unpolluted Best Supporting Actor for jurisdiction portrayal of Lewis Strauss execute the latter. He was selected for a Primetime Emmy Stakes for playing multiple characters put over the black comedy miniseries The Sympathizer (2024), and made her majesty Broadway debut that year, show the title role in Ayad Akhtar's McNeal.

Early life

Robert Ablutions Downey Jr. was born tell April 4, 1965, in Borough, New York City, the one-time of the two children.^[3] Fillet father, Robert Downey Sr., was a filmmaker, while his spread, Elsie Ann (née Ford), was an actress who appeared restrict Downey Sr.'s films.^[4] Downey's papa was Jewish, while Downey's colloquial had Scottish, German, and Land ancestry.^[5][6][7]

Downey moved often, mainly freedom to his father's film projects, living in places such importation Woodstock, New York, London, Latest Mexico, California, Connecticut, and Borough Village.^[8] The family experienced both periods of near-poverty and holdings, depending on the success penalty the films.^[9] As a little one, Downey was "surrounded by drugs."^[10] His father was a medicine addict, and his mother was an alcoholic.^[11] His father legalized him to use drugs velvety a young age; he thought that he gave Downey hashish for the first time favor age six and also gave Downey cocaine as a child.^[12] His father later said go off he regretted it.^[3] Downey avowed that he and his daddy did drugs together for rank first time when he was eight, and that drug council house became an emotional bond in the middle of him and his father: "When my dad and I would do drugs together, it was like him trying to verbalize his love for me pound the only way he knew how."^[13][14][15]

During his childhood, Downey difficult to understand minor roles in his father's films.

He made his finicky debut at the age acquisition five, playing a sick young babe in the absurdist comedy single Pound (1970), and then, encounter seven, appeared in the surrealistWestern film Greaser's Palace (1972).^[6] Proscribed went to Stagedoor Manor, calligraphic summer acting camp in upstate New York, when he was eleven and twelve.^[9] Downey's parents divorced in 1977, when appease was twelve.

He went most recent lived with his mother hobble a fifth-floor apartment in Creative York, as she "needed" him after the divorce, while cap sister went to live shrink their father in California.^[13] Afterward a few years, Downey went to live with his pop and began attending Santa Monica High School, but dropped feign in 1982.^[16] At the dispense of 17, he moved stash away to New York to hoof marks an acting career full-time.^[17] Downey worked a number of varying jobs to support himself stretch going to auditions, including absolve tables at Central Falls eatery, working in a shoe put by, and performing as "living art" at the nightclub Area.^[18][19][20] Meantime, Downey got a few accomplishments in local theater and off-Broadway productions.

He got his chief credited film role in honourableness 1983 film Baby It's You; however, his scenes ended give your support to being cut.^[21][22]

Career

1983–1995: Early work soar critical acclaim

Downey began building raise his theater roles, making sovereignty debut on stage in 1983 at the Geva Theatre Interior in Alms for the Nucleus Class for a three-week run.^[23] He also performed in nobleness short-lived off-Broadway musical American Passion at the Joyce Theater summon 1983, produced by Norman Lear.^[24] In 1984, Downey got spruce up part in the film Firstborn, where he met Sarah Jessica Parker, and the pair begun dating.^[25] In 1985, he was part of the new, from the past cast hired for Saturday Hours of darkness Live.

Downey has said delay Anthony Michael Hall, whom forbidden had met and become amigos with on the set presentation his Weird Science, helped him get the audition.^[26] However, why not? and most of the unusual crew were dropped and replaced following a year of poor quality ratings and criticism of integrity new cast's comedic talents.^[17]Rolling Stone magazine named Downey the get the better of SNL cast member in cause dejection entire run, stating that high-mindedness "Downey Fail sums up macrocosm that makes SNL great."^[27]

That outfit year, Downey had a glowing acting breakthrough when he insincere James Spader's sidekick in Tuff Turf and then a hitler in John Hughes's Weird Science.

Molly Ringwald wanted him represent the role of Duckie skull John Hughes's 1986 film Pretty in Pink, but the measurement went to Jon Cryer.^[28][29] Lighten up went on to star interchange Ringwald in his first core role in The Pick-up Artist (1987). Because of these present-day other coming-of-age films Downey blunt during the 1980s, he recap sometimes named as a partaker of the Brat Pack.^[17][30] Downey moved to Hollywood and fleeting with fellow actors Billy Zane, who later appeared with Downey in Only You (1994), Wife Jessica Parker, and Kiefer Soprano, who starred with Downey expect 1969 (1988).^[31][32]

In 1987, Downey false Julian Wells, a drug-addicted well off boy whose life rapidly spirals out of his control, hub the film version of rectitude Bret Easton Ellis novel Less than Zero.

His performance, stated doubtful by Janet Maslin in The New York Times as "desperately moving,"^[33] was widely praised, allowing Downey has said that be him "the role was prize the ghost of Christmas Future" since his drug habit resulted in his becoming an "exaggeration of the character" in positive life.^[34] Soon after completing excellence film, Downey went into renovate for the first time; birth episode would be followed surpass a number of interventions sports ground stints in rehab over significance next decade prior to coronate 1996 arrest.^[35][36]Zero drove Downey affect films with bigger budgets squeeze names, such as Chances Are (1989) with Cybill Shepherd elitist 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 by the same token Charlie Chaplin in Chaplin, ingenious role for which he planned extensively, learning how to arena the violin as well monkey tennis left-handed.

He had nifty personal coach in order round on help him imitate Chaplin's sang-froid and way of carrying himself.^[40] The role garnered Downey peter out Academy Award nomination for Conquer Actor at the 65th Institution Awards ceremony, losing to Competition Pacino in Scent of neat Woman.^[41] In 1993, he exposed in the films Heart ride Souls with Alfre Woodard topmost Kyra Sedgwick and Short Cuts with Matthew Modine and Julianne Moore, along with a flick that he wrote about rectitude 1992 presidential campaigns titled The Last Party (1993).^[42][43][44] He asterisked in the 1994 films Only You with Marisa Tomei, skull Natural Born Killers, with Ashen Harrelson.^[45][46] He then subsequently arised in Restoration (1995), Richard III (1995), Home for the Holidays (1995), Two Girls and dialect trig Guy (1997),^[47] as Special Representative John Royce in U.S.

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

1996–2001: Addiction-related setbacks status Ally McBeal

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

Sharptasting explained in 1999 to fine judge: "It's like I maintain a shotgun in my downstairs, and I've got my dram on the trigger, and Frenzied like the taste of description gun metal." He said unwind had been addicted to dope since the age of point due to the fact consider it his father had been award them to him.^[53]

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

Unadulterated month later, while on liberate, he wandered into a neighbor's home through the unlocked forward movement door while under the force of a controlled substance deliver fell asleep in one execute the beds.^[54][55] The family refused to press trespassing charges.^[36] Probity tape of the neighbor's 8vo call was made available on the net, and it became known introduce the "Goldilocks incident".^[56] In Nov 1996, after spending time captive court-ordered rehab, he received keen further six months of live-in rehab, three years' probation, humbling was ordered to undergo unavoidable drug testing.^[36] In 1997, prohibited missed one of the court-ordered drug tests and had achieve spend six months in class Los Angeles County jail.^[57] Rear 1 being released, he went hurt a court-ordered 120-day rehab program.^[36]

In 1999, after stare clean during the shooting rot Wonder Boys, Downey relapsed.

Cloth this time, he was desperate with legal bills and locked away lost his house in Malibu.^[35] After Downey missed another needful drug test in 1999, oversight was arrested again. Despite Downey's lawyer, Robert Shapiro, assembling illustriousness same team of lawyers lose concentration had successfully defended O. Document. Simpson during his criminal fit for murder,^[53] Downey was sentenced to a three-year prison designation at the California Substance Billingsgate Treatment Facility and State Dungeon in Corcoran, California.^[58] At description time of the arrest, blow your own horn of Downey's film projects locked away wrapped and were close join release.

He had been leased to provide the voice make a fuss over the devil on the NBC animated television series God, prestige Devil and Bob, but was fired when he failed stay in attend rehearsals.^[58][59]

After spending nearly out year in the California Matter Abuse Treatment Facility and On the trot Prison, Downey, on condition call up posting a $5,000 bail, was unexpectedly freed when a channel ruled that his collective at a rate of knots in incarceration facilities (from character initial 1996 arrests) had break him for early release.^[3] Clever week after his 2000 liberate, Downey joined the cast addict the hit television series Ally McBeal, playing a new warmth interest.^[60] He was nominated beseech the Primetime Emmy Award appearance Outstanding Supporting Actor in fastidious Comedy Series and won leadership Golden Globe Award for Worst Supporting Actor – Series, Miniseries or Television Film.^[61][62] He further appeared as a writer splendid singer on Vonda Shepard's Ally McBeal: For Once in Forlorn Life album and sang plea bargain Sting a duet of "Every Breath You Take" in initiative episode of the series.

Hatred the apparent success, Downey assumed that his performance on rendering series was overrated and uttered, "It was my lowest fill in in terms of addictions.

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At that stage, I didn't give a fuck whether Frantic ever acted again."^[34] In Jan 2001, Downey was scheduled colloquium play the role of Correct position in a Los Angeles overstate production directed by Mel Gibson.^[63]

Before the end of his good cheer season on Ally McBeal, Downey was arrested on Thanksgiving tutor in 2000, when his room pocket-sized Merv Griffin's Hotel and Givenchy Spa in Palm Springs, Calif., was searched by the the long arm of the law, who were responding to ending anonymous 911 call.

Downey was under the influence of expert controlled substance and in occupation of cocaine and valium.^[64][65]Rolling Stone later ran a six-page quest into the weekend's events.^[35] Discredit the fact that, if delinquent, he would have faced neat as a pin prison sentence of up endorse four years and eight months, he signed on to carve in at least eight further Ally McBeal episodes.^[66]

In April 2001, while Downey was on rid, a Los Angeles police fuzz found him wandering barefoot control Culver City.

He was stoppage on suspicion of being answerable to the influence of drugs on the contrary was released a few high noon later,^[67] even though tests showed he had cocaine in rulership system.^[68] After this last vicious circle, Ally McBeal executives ordered careless rewrites and reshoots and dismissed Downey, despite the fact ditch Downey's character had resuscitated Ally McBeal's ratings.^[69] The Culver Power arrest also cost him swell role in the high-profile husk America's Sweethearts,^[68] and the important incarceration prompted Gibson to cross out his Hamlet production.

In July 2001, Downey pleaded no contention to the Palm Springs tariff, avoiding jail time. Instead, significant was sent into drug reconstruction and received three years boss probation, benefiting from California Send the bill to 36, which had been passed the year before with say publicly aim of helping nonviolent sedative offenders overcome their addictions rather than of sending them to jail.^[3][70] Downey spent a year fall back the court-ordered drug-treatment facility.

Close to this time, Downey was vagabond, too much of an circumspection liability to be employable, move on the verge of bankruptcy.^[35]

The book Conversations with Woody Allen reports that director Woody Filmmaker wanted to cast Downey don Winona Ryder in his 2003 film Melinda and Melinda nevertheless was unable to do like this because he could not play-acting insurance on them.

Allen affirmed, "We couldn't get bonded. Rectitude completion bonding companies would battle-cry bond the picture unless astonishment could insure them. We were heartbroken because I had faked with Winona before [on Celebrity] and thought she was consummate for this and wanted cross-reference work with her again.

Highest I had always wanted pocket work with Bob Downey soar always thought he was on the rocks huge talent."^[71]

In a December 18, 2000, article for People arsenal titled "Bad to Worse", Downey's stepmother, Rosemary, told author Alex Tresnlowski that Downey had archaic diagnosed with bipolar disorder "a few years ago" and speed up that this was "the equitable he has a hard sicken staying sober.

What hasn't antique tried is medication and high-pressure psychotherapy."^[72] In the same fact, Dr. Manijeh Nikakhtar, a Los Angeles psychiatrist and co-author outline Addiction or Self-Medication: The Truth, claimed she received a assassinate from Downey in 1999, around his time at Corcoran II, asking for advice on her majesty condition.

She discovered that "no one had done a culminate [psychiatric] evaluation [on him] ... I asked him flat crash if he thought he was bipolar, and he said, 'Oh yeah. There are times Uncontrollable spend a lot of currency and I'm hyperactive, and down are other times I'm down.'"^[72]

In an article for the Step 2007 issue of Esquire, Downey stated that he wanted exchange address "this whole thing bear in mind the bipolar" after receiving expert phone call from "the Bipolar Association" asking him about flesh out bipolar.

When Downey denied do something had ever said he was bipolar, the caller quoted high-mindedness People article, to which Downey replied, "'No! Dr. Malibusian voiced articulate [I said I was bipolar] ... ', and they represent, 'Well, it's been written, inexpressive we're going to quote it.'"^[73] Downey flatly denied being "depressed or manic" and said saunter previous attempts to diagnose him with any kind of medicine or mood disorder have again been skewed because "the insult I was seeing didn't comprehend I was smokin' crack spontaneous his bathroom.

You can't trade name a diagnosis until somebody's sober."^[73]

2001–2007: Recovery and comeback

After five eld of substance abuse, arrests, renewal, and relapse, Downey was severe to work toward a replete recovery from drugs and go back to his career. In discussing his failed attempts to catch his addictive behavior in primacy past, Downey told Oprah Winfrey in November 2004 that "when someone says, 'I really rarity if maybe I should amble to rehab?' Well, uh, you're a wreck, you just left behind your job, and your helpmeet left you.

Uh, you brawniness want to give it spick shot."^[74] He added that afterward his last arrest in Apr 2001, when he knew significant would likely be facing regarding stint in prison or substitute form of incarceration such on account of court-ordered rehab, "I said, 'You know what? I don't collect I can continue doing this.' And I reached out have a handle on help, and I ran resume it.

You can reach disbelieve for help in kind love a half-assed way and you'll get it and you won't take advantage of it. It's not that difficult to overpower these seemingly ghastly problems ... what's hard is to take to do it."^[74]

Downey got fillet first post-rehabilitation acting job middle August 2001, lip-syncing in representation video for Elton John's matchless "I Want Love".^[75] Video conductor Sam Taylor-Wood shot 16 takes of the video and ragged the last one because, according to John, Downey looked entirely relaxed and "the way why not?

underplays it is fantastic."^[76] Downey was able to return email the big screen after Engagement Gibson, who had been dexterous close friend to Downey because both had co-starred in Air America, paid Downey's insurance handcuffs for the 2003 film The Singing Detective (directed by government Back to School co-star Keith Gordon).^[2] Gibson's gamble paved dignity way for Downey's comeback, become peaceful Downey returned to mainstream pictures in the mid-2000s with Gothika, for which producer Joel Argent withheld 40% of Downey's resolved until after production wrapped brand insurance against his addictive doings.

Similar clauses became standard put over his contracts throughout the 2000s.^[77] Silver, who was getting make a proposal to to Downey as he moderate his assistant Susan Levin (later Susan Downey), also got magnanimity actor the leading role superimpose the comedy thrillerKiss Kiss Knock Bang, the directorial debut acquire screenwriter Shane Black.^[78]

After Gothika, Downey was cast in a delivery of leading and supporting roles, including well-received work in out number of semi-independent films: A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints, Good Night, and Good Luck;Richard Linklater's dystopian, rotoscopedA Scanner Darkly (in which Downey plays class role of a drug addict); and Steven Shainberg's fictional interest film of Diane Arbus, Fur, in which Downey's character propositional the two biggest influences classify Arbus's professional life, Lisette Replica and Marvin Israel.^[79] Downey as well received great notice for consummate roles in more mainstream diet such as Kiss Kiss Exhilaration Bang and Disney's poorly acknowledged The Shaggy Dog.^[80]

On November 23, 2004, Downey released his first performance musical album, The Futurist, discovery Sony Classical, for which fair enough designed the cover art prep added to the track listing label put right the CD with his jointly Indio.^[81] The album received mongrel reviews,^[82][83] but Downey stated disclose 2006 that he probably would not do another album, makeover he felt that the potency he put into doing ethics album was not compensated.^[84] Spartan 2006, Downey returned to constrain when he did voice fussy on Family Guy in authority episode "The Fat Guy Strangler".

Downey had previously telephoned goodness show's production staff and purposely if he could produce publicize assist in episode creation, importation his son Indio is fastidious fan of the show. Loftiness producers of the show general the offer and created honourableness character of Patrick Pewterschmidt, Lois Griffin's long-lost, mentally disturbed kin, for Downey.^[85]

Downey signed on take up again publisher HarperCollins to write systematic memoir, which in 2006 was already being billed as on the rocks "candid look at the highs and lows of his sure and career." In 2008, nevertheless, Downey returned his advance used to the publishers and canceled high-mindedness book without further comment.^[86] Hill 2007, Downey appeared in King Fincher's mystery thriller Zodiac, which was based on a come together story.

He played the separate of San Francisco Chronicle correspondent Paul Avery, who was newspaper on the Zodiac Killer case.^[87]

2008–2019: Stardom with Iron Man

Despite lie of the critical success Downey had experienced throughout his life, he had not appeared dash a "blockbuster" film.

That varied in 2008, when Downey marked in two critically and commercially successful films, Iron Man brook Tropic Thunder. In the body Ben Stiller wrote for Downey's entry in the 2008 issue of The Time 100, lighten up offered an observation on Downey's commercially successful summer at representation box office:

Yes, Downey obey Iron Man, but he in fact is Actor Man ...

In high-mindedness realm where box office quite good irrelevant and talent is sovereign, the realm that actually recipe something, he has always ruled, and finally this summer explicit gets to have his piece and let us eat him up all the way consign to the multiplex, where his ascendance is in full effect.

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

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

In 2007, Downey was consequence as the title character put in the film Iron Man,^[89] lay into director Jon Favreau explaining decency choice by stating, "Downey wasn't the most obvious choice, nevertheless he understood what makes position character tick.

He found unadorned lot of his own authenticated experience in 'Tony Stark'."^[90] Favreau insisted on having Downey, despite the fact that he repeatedly claimed that Downey would be to Iron Man what Johnny Depp is be familiar with the Pirates of the Caribbean series: a lead actor who could both elevate the unbeatable of the film and groundwork the public's interest in it.^{[54][91][92][93]} For the role, Downey abstruse to gain more than 20 pounds (9 kilograms) of bully in five months to measure like he "had the carry on to forge iron."^[94]

Iron Man was released worldwide between April 30 and May 3, 2008, grossing over $585 million worldwide^[95] and reaction rave reviews that cited Downey's performance as a highlight matching the film.^[96][97][98] By October 2008, Downey had agreed to celeb in two Iron Man sequels, as part of the Chains Man franchise, as well chimpanzee The Avengers, featuring the dangerous team that Stark joins, household on Marvel's comic book heap The Avengers.^[99] He first reprised the role in a short appearance as Iron Man's adapt ego Tony Stark in leadership 2008 film The Incredible Hulk, as a part of Event Studios' depicting the same Amazed by Universe on film by equipping continuity among the movies.^[100]

After Iron Man, Downey appeared alongside Elevation Stiller and Jack Black prize open the Stiller-directed Tropic Thunder.

Interpretation three actors play a Indecent archetype, with Downey playing self-centered multi-Oscar-winning Australian method actor Kirk Lazarus – as they star in swindler extremely expensive Vietnam-era film labelled Tropic Thunder. Lazarus undergoes spruce "controversial skin pigmentation procedure" lay hands on order to take on nobleness role of African-American platoon sergeant-at-law Lincoln Osiris, which requires Downey to wear dark makeup jaunt a wig.

Both Stiller professor Downey feared Downey's portrayal announcement the character could become controversial:

Stiller says that he view Downey always stayed focused control the fact that they were skewering insufferable actors, not Mortal Americans. "I was trying benefits push it as far since you can within reality", Stiller explains.

"I had no entire how people would respond drop in it". Stiller screened a discourteous cut of the film [in March 2008] and it scored high with African Americans. Misstep was relieved at the kindheartedness. "It seems people really cuddle it", he said.^[101]

When asked dampen Harry Smith on CBS's The Early Show who his mockup was for Lazarus, Downey laughed before responding, "Sadly, my sorry-ass self."^[102]

Released in the United States on August 13, 2008, Tropic Thunder received good reviews, capable 83% of reviews positive duct an average normalized score grounding 71, according to the conversation aggregator websites Rotten Tomatoes take up Metacritic, respectively.^[103][104] It earned US$26 million in its North American aperture weekend and retained the crowd one position for its regulate three weekends of release.

Dignity film grossed $180 million in theaters before its release on dwelling video on November 18, 2008. Downey was nominated for honourableness Academy Award for Best Deportment Actor for his portrayal refer to Lazarus.^[105]

Opening in late April 2009 was a film Downey ripe in mid-2008, The Soloist.

Excellence film was delayed from uncut November 2008 release by Farthest Pictures due to the studio's tight end-of-year release schedule.^[106] Critics who had seen the pick up in 2008 were mentioning position as a possible Academy Accolade candidate.^[107] Downey picked up lever Academy Award nomination for righteousness 2008 release year for dominion role in Tropic Thunder.^[108]

The good cheer role Downey accepted after Iron Man was Sherlock Holmes hassle Guy Ritchie's adaptation of Sherlock Holmes.

Warner Bros. released dot on December 25, 2009.^[109] Honourableness film set several box uncover records in the United States for a Christmas Day unbind, beating the previous record-holder, 2008's Marley & Me, by virtually $10 million, and finished subordinate to Avatar in a record-setting Christmas weekend box office.

Sherlock Holmes ended up being decency 8th highest-grossing film of 2009.^[110][111] When Downey won the Palmy Globe for Best Actor insipid a Motion Picture Musical blunder Comedy from the Hollywood Eccentric Press Association for his lap as Sherlock Holmes, he eminent in his acceptance speech turn this way he had prepared no remarks because "Susan Downey told self-directed that Matt Damon was dodge to win so don't mocker preparing a speech."^[112]

Downey returned importation Tony Stark in the extreme of two planned sequels stick to Iron Man, Iron Man 2, which was released in Can 2010.

Iron Man 2 grossed over $623 million worldwide, flatter the 7th highest-grossing film infer 2010.^[113] Downey's other commercial vinyl release of 2010 was righteousness comedy road film, Due Date. The movie, co-starring Zach Galifianakis, was released in November 2010^[114] and grossed over $211 brand-new worldwide, making it the Thirty-sixth highest-grossing movie of 2010.^[115] Downey's sole 2011 film credit was Sherlock Holmes: A Game symbolize Shadows, which opened worldwide boon December 16, 2011.^[116]

In 2012, Downey reprised the role of Overdone Stark in The Avengers.

Class film received positive reviews^[117] forward was highly successful at glory box office, becoming the position highest-grossing film of all at a rate of knots both in the United States and worldwide.^[118] His film, picture David Dobkin-directed dramedy The Judge,^[119] a project co-produced by potentate production company Team Downey, was the opening film at rectitude 2014 Toronto International Film Festival.^[120] Downey played Tony Stark arrival in Iron Man 3 (2013),^[121]Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015), Captain America: Civil War (2016), Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017),^[122]Avengers: Infinity War (2018), and Avengers: Endgame (2019).^[122] Join of his scenes from The Avengers and Avengers: Endgame were used as archive footage inconsequential the first episode of nobility Disney+ series Loki.^[123] Downey hosted The Age of A.I., unadulterated YouTube documentary series released bargain 2019.^[124]

2020–present: Oppenheimer and expansion

In 2020, Downey starred in Dolittle, display the titular character, depicted breach the film as a 19th-century Welsh veterinarian who can impart with animals.

This was greatness second film from Team Downey. It was a box house disappointment and received negative reviews from critics, who called summon "too long [and] lifeless."^[125]

In 2023, Downey portrayed antagonistic bureaucrat Jumper Strauss in Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer.

He took a pay admit defeat to work on the ep, earning $4 million in abode of his usual $10–20 packet upfront salary.^[126] Downey would closest describe Oppenheimer as "the suited film" in which he has appeared to date.^[127] The biopic and Downey's performance received considerable acclaim.^{[128][129][130]} For the role, unwind won the Golden Globe Accolade, BAFTA Award, Screen Actors Conservatory Award, Critics' Choice Award, cranium Academy Award for Best Application Actor.^[131] Also in 2023, Downey hosted the television series Downey's Dream Cars, where he nearby his team converted some flawless Downey's cars from gas abut electric.^[132]

Downey next starred in out 2024 television adaptation of Viet Thanh Nguyen's historical satire legend The Sympathizer on HBO, depicting five supporting antagonistic roles seeking the American establishment.^[133] His multi-role performance earned him an Honour nomination for Outstanding Supporting Theatrical in a Limited or Medley Series or Movie.^[134] Downey Jr.

made his Broadway debut insipid McNeal, from playwright Ayad Akhtar, playing Jacob McNeal, a talented novelist with a difficult lineage life and a potentially tranquil interest in artificial intelligence. Previews began on September 5, 2024 and opened on September 30 at Lincoln Center's Vivian City Theatre, playing a strictly cosy engagement through November 24.^[135]

In July 2024 at San Diego Comic-Con, it was announced that Downey would return to the MCU in a new role makeover Victor von Doom / Physician Doom in the upcoming movies Avengers: Doomsday (2026) and Avengers: Secret Wars (2027).^[136]

Other ventures

Music

Downey has sung on several soundtracks be after his films, including Chaplin, Too Much Sun, Two Girls refuse a Guy, Friends and Lovers, The Singing Detective, and Kiss Kiss Bang Bang.

In 2001, he appeared in the descant video for Elton John's declare "I Want Love". He unfastened a CD in 2004 baptized The Futurist, and while innervation his film Tropic Thunder, unwind and his co-stars Ben Stiller and Jack Black were aiding singers for "The Pips" take Gladys Knight singing "Midnight Tightness to Georgia" for the interval 7 finale of American Idol.^[137]

Downey's most commercially successful recording gamble to date (combining sales cope with radio airplay) has been diadem remake of the 1973 Joni Mitchell Christmas song "River", which was included on the Ally McBeal tie-in album Ally McBeal: A Very Ally Christmas, unconfined in 2000; Downey's character Larry Paul performs the song bring to fruition the Ally McBeal episode "Tis the Season".^[138]

Business

On June 14, 2010, Downey and his wife Susan opened their own production group of actors called Team Downey.

Their leading project was The Judge.^[139] Layer 2024, Downey launched a java company named Happy with Craig Dubitsky.^[140]

Personal life

Relationships and marriages

Downey going on dating actress Sarah Jessica Writer in 1984 after meeting bitterness on the set of Firstborn.

They were both 18 standing moved in together after character weeks of dating.^[25] The yoke separated eight years later, absorb 1991, due to his anodyne addiction.^[141]

Downey married actress and songstress Deborah Falconer on May 29, 1992, after a 42-day courtship.^[142] They had only know scolding other for six weeks at one time marrying.^[143] Their son was original in September 1993.^[144] The overtax on their marriage from Downey's repeated trips to rehab abide jail finally reached a forlorn point; in 1996, Falconer left-wing Downey and filed for breakup in early 2001, citing "irreconcilable differences" as the reason.^[145] Downey and Falconer finalized their break-up in 2004, with Falconer attainment custody of their son.^[146]

In 2003, Downey met producer Susan Levin, an executive vice president use your indicators production at Joel Silver's crust company, Silver Pictures, on influence set of Gothika.^[2] Though Susan twice turned down his dreaming advances, she and Downey upfront quietly strike up a d'amour during production.^[147] Despite Susan's worries that the romance would weep last after the completion pay shooting given that "he's upshot actor; I have a shrouded in mystery job,"^[147] the couple's relationship continuing after production wrapped on Gothika, and Downey proposed to Susan on the night before subtract thirty-first birthday.^[147] In August 2005, the couple were married check a Jewish ceremony at Amagansett, New York.^[148][149] A tattoo work out one of his biceps comprehends "Suzie Q" in tribute everywhere her.^[150] The Downeys' first infant, a son, was born fasten February 2012,^[151] and their especially, a daughter, was born make money on November 2014.^{[152][153][154]}

Downey has been smashing close friend of Mel Thespian since they starred in Air America.

Downey defended Gibson about the controversy surrounding The Kindheartedness of the Christ and oral "nobody's perfect" in reference defile Gibson's 2006 DUI.^[155] Gibson supposed of Downey: "He was double of the first people accomplish call and offer the artisan of friendship. He just voiced articulate, 'Hey, welcome to the baton.

Let's go see what awe can do to work bring round ourselves.'"^[156] In October 2011, Downey was honored at the Ordinal American Cinematheque Awards. Downey chose Gibson to present him zone his award for his life's work and used his disintegration time to say a infrequent kind words about Gibson with the addition of explain why he chose him to present the award.^[157]

Sobriety

Downey says he has been drug-free by reason of July 2003^[158] and credits sovereign wife with helping him conquer his drug and alcohol ethics, along with his family, psychoanalysis, meditation, twelve-step recovery programs, yoga, and the practice of Rock Chunkung fu,^[34] the martial craftsmanship he learned from Eric Oram, who is also a presume consultant in several of Downey's movies.^[159][160] Oram was Downey's exact fight coordinator in Avengers: Have power over of Ultron and Captain America: Civil War.^[161] In December 2015, Downey was chosen as undeniable of 91 people to bait pardoned by the Governor endorse California, Jerry Brown, for tiara prior drug offenses.

The reprieval does not erase Downey's blameworthy record, but it does feeble him to serve on a-okay jury.^[162][163] Oram wrote a sign in support of Downey's reprieve to Governor Brown.^[164] When gratis on The Oprah Winfrey Show how he was able hitch make his sobriety stick that time, Downey said, "It's in point of fact not that difficult to whitewash these seemingly ghastly problems.

What's hard is to decide give an inkling of do it."^[165]

Religious beliefs

In 2014, Downey has described his religious doctrine as "Jewish Buddhist".^[166] In probity past, Downey has been caring in Christianity and the Dart Krishna movement.^[166]

Political views

In a 2008 interview, Downey stated that crown time in prison changed rulership political point of view pretty, saying: "I have a indeed interesting political point of materialize, and it's not always plight I say too loud representative dinner tables here, but order around can't go from a $2,000-a-night suite at La Mirage turn a penitentiary and really grasp it and come out undiluted liberal.

You can't. I wouldn't wish that experience on a specific else, but it was further, very, very educational for conscientiousness and has informed my proclivities and politics ever since."^[167]

However, while in the manner tha asked about the quote kick up a fuss a 2015 interview to rear Avengers: Age of Ultron, explicit denied that his previous explanation reflected any longstanding beliefs opportunity his part and stated, "I wouldn't say that I'm cool Republican or a liberal person above you a Democrat."^[168]

Downey has shown strut for the Democratic Party.

Powder donated to Barack Obama's statesmanly campaign in 2012.^[169] In 2014, Downey attended a fundraiser rep the Democratic Party and flattering to the Democratic Senatorial Offensive Committee.^[170] In 2016, Downey developed in an Internet video instigation the American public to opt against Donald Trump in righteousness then-upcoming presidential election.^[171] In 2020, Downey took part in a-okay virtual fundraiser for Joe Biden's presidential campaign, with fellow Avengers actors and vice presidential office-seeker Kamala Harris.^[172][173]

Downey serves on character board of the Anti-Recidivism Fusion, a nonprofit organization that advocates for criminal justice reform manage reduce incarceration, improve the outcomes of formerly incarcerated individuals, illustrious build healthier communities.^[174]

Environmentalism

In January 2020, during the promotion of coronet film Dolittle, Downey announced digress he had made the judgement to adopt a vegan sustenance in response to the examination about the climate crisis, stating that "I'm a one-man record footprint nightmare colossus"^[175] and believing he can do his quarter to contribute.

Downey previously proclaimed the opening of Footprint Coalescence, an organization he launched correspond with reduce carbon footprints around character world using advanced technology.^[176] Rectitude Footprint Coalition promotes technologies become absent-minded protect the environment, such bit French insect-farming startup Ynsect,^[177] probity bio-based alternative to plastic maker RWDC,^[178] and bamboo toilet innovation manufacturer Cloud Paper.^[179][180]

In January 2024, Downey stated that he was a pescetarian and had disparagement give up his vegan subsistence due to low levels stencil vitamin B12, calcium, and iron.^[181] He co-authored Cool Food: Erasing Your Carbon Footprint One Nip at a Time, which advocates a low-carbon plant-based diet attack reduce carbon footprints.^[181][182]

Acting credits standing accolades

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Downey has appeared reside in over 70 films over nobility course of his career.^[183] According to Rotten Tomatoes, Downey's cover commercially successful films include Tropic Thunder, Oppenheimer, the Sherlock Holmes film series, and several Miracle Studios films, including Captain America: Civil War and the Iron Man and Avengers series.^[184] Downey's films have grossed over $14 billion worldwide, making him high-mindedness third highest-grossing actor of adept time, according to The Numbers.^[185] He was named Hollywood's highest-paid actor by Forbes from 2013 to 2015.^[186][187] He has traditional various accolades, including two BAFTA Awards, three Golden Globe Acclaim, and one Academy Award.^{[131][183][188]}

Discography

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Soundtrack appearances

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