$300,000,000
Robert Downey Jr
Net Worth
Born in (City)
New York City
Born in (Country)
U.S.A.
Date of Birth
04th December, 1965
Date of Death
-
Mother
Elsie Downey
Father
Robert Downey Sr.
About
Robert John Downey Jr. (born April 4, 1965) is an American entertainer, maker, and vocalist. His vocation has been described by basic and mainstream accomplishment in his childhood, trailed by a time of substance misuse and legitimate difficulties, before a resurgence of business achievement in middle age. In 2008, Downey was named by Time magazine among the 100 most powerful individuals on the planet, and from 2013 to 2015, he was recorded by Forbes as Hollywood’s most generously compensated entertainer. His movies have netted over $14.4 billion around the world, making him the second most elevated earning film industry star ever.
Early Life
At five years old, he made his acting introduction in Robert Downey Senior's film Pound in 1970. He thusly worked with the Brat Pack in the high schooler films Weird Science (1985) and Less Than Zero (1987). In 1992, Downey depicted the title character in the biopic Chaplin, for which he was selected for the Academy Award for Best Actor and won a BAFTA Award. Following a spell at the Corcoran Substance Abuse Treatment Facility on sedate charges, he joined the TV arrangement Ally McBeal, for which he won a Golden Globe Award; anyway in the wake of two medication charges, one in late 2000 and one in mid-2001, he was terminated and his character ended. He remained in a court-requested medication treatment program not long after and has kept up his moderation since 2003.
Downey started expanding upon theater jobs, remembering for the brief off-Broadway melodic American Passion at the Joyce Theater in 1983, created by Norman Lear. In 1985, he was a piece of the new, more youthful cast recruited for Saturday Night Live, however, following a time of helpless evaluations and analysis of the new cast’s comedic abilities, he and the majority of the new team were dropped and supplanted. Drifter magazine named Downey the most exceedingly terrible SNL cast part in its whole run, expressing that the "Downey Fail summarizes everything that makes SNL incredible." That equivalent year, Downey had an emotional acting advancement when he played James Spader’s character’s companion in Tuff Turf and afterward a domineering jerk in John Hughe's Weird Science. He was considered for the job of Duckie in John Hughe's film Pretty in Pink (1986), however, his first lead job was with Molly Ringwald in The Pick-up Artist (1987). Due to these and other transitioning films, Downey did during the 1980s, he is some of the time named as an individual from the Brat Pack.
Road to Success
At first, bond finishing organizations would not safeguard Downey, until Mel Gibson paid the protection bond for the 2003 film The Singing Detective. He consequently proceeded to star operating at a profit parody Kiss Bang (2005), the spine chiller Zodiac (2007), and the activity satire Tropic Thunder (2008); for the last, he was selected for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. Downey increased worldwide acknowledgment for featuring Tony Stark/Iron Man in ten movies inside the Marvel Cinematic Universe, starting with Iron Man (2008). He has additionally played the title character in Guy Ritchie’s Sherlock Holmes (2009), which earned him his second Golden Globe, and its continuation (2011).
In 1992, he featured as Charlie Chaplin in Chaplin, a job for which he arranged widely, figuring out how to play the violin just as tennis left-gave. He had an individual mentor so as to assist him with mimicking Chaplin’s stance, and a method of conducting himself. The job collected Downey an Academy Award assignment for Best Actor at the Academy Awards 65th function, losing to Al Pacino in Scent of a Woman.
Iron Man was comprehensively delivered between April 30 and May 3, 2008, earning over $585 million worldwide and getting rave audits which referred to Downey’s exhibition as a feature of the film. By October 2008, Downey had consented to show up as Iron Man in two Iron Man continuations, as a component of the Iron Man establishment, just as The Avengers, including the superhuman group that Stark joins, in light of Marvel’s comic book arrangement The Avengers.
Challenges
In April 2001, while he was on parole, a Los Angeles cop discovered him meandering barefooted in Culver City. He was captured for doubt of being affected by drugs, however was delivered a couple of hours after the fact, despite the fact that tests demonstrated he had cocaine in his framework. After this last capture, maker David E. Kelley and other Ally McBeal chiefs requested a minute ago changes and reshoots and terminated Downey from the show, regardless of the way that Downey’s character had revived Ally McBeal’s appraisals. The Culver City capture additionally cost him a job in the prominent film America’s Sweethearts, and the ensuing imprisonment incited Mel Gibson to close down his arranged stage creation of Hamlet also. In July 2001, Downey argued no challenge to the Palm Springs charges, keeping away from prison time. Rather, he was sent into sedate restoration and got three years of probation, profiting by California Proposition 36, which had been spent the prior year with the point of helping peaceful medication wrongdoers conquer their addictions as opposed to sending them to imprisonment.
The book Conversations with Woody Allen reports that chief Woody Allen needed to project Downey and Winona Ryder in his film Melinda and Melinda in 2005, however, couldn’t do as such, in light of the fact that he was unable to get protection on them, expressing, "We were unable to get fortified. The finishing holding organizations would not bond the image except if we could protect them. We were grief-stricken on the grounds that I had worked with Winona before [on Celebrity] and thought she was ideal for this and needed to work with her once more. What’s more, I had for the longest time been itching to work with Bob Downey and consistently thought he was an enormous ability."
Failures
From 1996 through 2001, Downey was captured on various occasions on charges identified with drugs including cocaine, heroin, and cannabis and experienced medication treatment programs fruitlessly, disclosing in 1999 to an adjudicator: "It resembles I have a shotgun in my mouth, and I have my finger on the trigger, and I like the flavor of the firearm metal." He clarified his backslides by professing to have been dependent on drugs since the age of eight, because of the way that his dad, additionally a junkie beforehand, had been offering them to him. Downey asserted that his exhibition on the arrangement was exaggerated and stated, "It was my absolute bottom as far as addictions. At that stage, I didn’t give a screw whether I at any point acted once more."
In April 1996, Downey was captured for ownership of heroin, cocaine, and an emptied .357 Magnum handgun while he was speeding down Sunset Boulevard. After a month, while on parole, he intruded into a neighbor’s home while affected by a controlled substance, and nodded off in one of the beds. He got three years of probation and was requested to go through mandatory medication testing. In 1997, he missed one of the court-requested medication tests and needed to go through a half year in the Los Angeles County prison.
Achievements
Downey is the winner of a Golden Globe Award and Screen Guild Award for ‘Ally McBeal (2001)’|BAFTA Award for ‘Chaplin (1992)’|Golden Globe Award for ‘Shorcuts (1994)’ and ‘Sherlock Holmes (2009)’|2 People’s Choice Awards for ‘The Avengers (2013)’
Quotes
- The lesson is that you can still make mistakes and be forgiven.
- Do I want to be a hero to my son? No. I would like to be a very real human being. That’s hard enough.
- I think it’s miraculous that anybody survives themselves.
- Job one is to get out of that cave. A lot of people do get out but don’t change.