Robert Downey Jr.

Robert Downey Jr. was born the April 4th 1965 in the district from Greenwich Village with New York.

Biography

In 1970, it plays in a film of his/her father Robert Downey Sr. whereas it is yet only 5 years old. His/her father was a producer of independent film and helped it in its current profession. Occupations of Downey Sr. obliged the family with moving much and Downey Jr. has often evil to adapt to various universities. Some time after the divorce of his parents, it retouner will live with his father with Los Angeles, where he will make odd jobs (he works in a restaurant or a store of shoes) and will play in small parts of Théâtre after having given up the university.

It takes part in a televised minisery, Mussolini: The Untold Story, it is engaged for the season 1985-1986 in the troop of the series Saturday Night Live, then share for Hollywood, where it obtains supporting roles in bands for teenagers before taking down in 1987 the head of poster in a film of James Toback, THE RECORD PLAYER ARTIST. The same year, it draws the attention by incarnating a young drug addict in Neige on Beverly Hills. Then, it connects engagements, packing its roles until dividing the high-speed motorboat with celebrities like James Woods in Coupable Resemblance or Mel Gibson in Air America.

At this point in time Richard Attenborough chooses it to incarnate the genius of the cinema in Chaplin, a composition noticed which will be worth to him to be named for the Oscar of the best actor, without however obtaining it. But the career and life of Robert Downey Jr. were affected by serious problems of Toxicomanie and Alcoolisme which was worth to him to be arrested and imprisoned on several occasions.

One discovers the actor on small screen starting from 2000 thanks to the series with success Ally McBeal, for which it takes down a Golden Globe. It takes part in the Original soundtrack, on which it sings in duet with Sting. After an appearance in the video clip I want coils Elton John in 2000, it shows its talents of musician with the album The Futurist (Sony Classical, 2004).

In spite of its excesses in all kinds, Robert Downey Jr. manages to hold its career in awakening, incarnating not very advisable characters as officer John Royce in US Marshals (1997), worrying as psychiatrist and lover of Halle Berry, in Gothika (2004), and even terrifying like serial killer of Prémonitions (1998). Also at ease in the Comedy, it gains in 2001 the Golden Globe of the male Best supporting role in a series for its service in the serial with success Ally McBeal, and is found, four years later, at the head of poster of KIS KIS, Bang Bang, a whodunnit with the image of the actor: removed from rim.

In turn, journalist in Good Night, and Good Luck of George Clooney and doctor in Raymond of Brian Robbins, it becomes, in January 2007, the enigmatic Lionel which allures Nicole Kidman in Fur: an imaginary portrait of Diane Arbus. With the poster, in March 2007, new film of David Fincher, Zodiac. Robert Downey Jr. try, at the sides of Jake Gyllenhaal, to put a term at the intrigues of a Serial killer, before joining Eric Bana and Drew Barrymore in Lucky You of Curtis Hanson.

If the career of the actor knew tops and bottoms, Robert Downey Jr. surfe currently on the top of vagueness with four projects for 2007 since it lends its features to the Super-héros Iron Man in the film adaptation of the Comic-book. Bad lot with Superman, it has only one step there…

Catalog of films

As an actor

1970 : Pound , of Robert Downey Sr.
1972 : Greaser' S De luxe hotel , of Robert Downey Sr.
1975 : Moment to Moment , of Robert Downey Sr.
1980 : Up the Academy , of Robert Downey Sr.
1983 : Baby It' S You , of John Sayles
1984: Firstborn , of Michael Apted
1985: Deadwait , of Sam Hurwitz (short-measuring)
1985: Tuff Racing , of Fritz Kiersch
1985: a creature of dream ( Weird Science ), of John Hughes
1985: Mussolini: The Untold Story , of William A. Graham (serial TV)
1985: Saturday Night Live , of Lorne Michaels (episode 1 season 11)
1986: Back to School , of Alan Metter
1986: America , of Robert Downey Sr.
1987 : the Dredger ( The Record player Artist ), of James Toback
1987: Snow on Beverly Hills ( Than Less Zero ), of Marek Kanievska
1988: Johnny Be Good , of Bud S. Smith
1988: Rented Lips , of Robert Downey Sr.
1988 : 1969 , of Ernest Thompson
1989: That' S Adequate , of Harry Hurwitz
1989: True Believer , of Joseph Ruben
1989: the Sky was mistaken ( Chances Are ), of Emile Ardolino
1990: Air America , of Roger Spottiswoode
1991: Too Much Sun , of Robert Downey Sr.
1991 : Tele cleaner lava ( Soapdish ), of Michael Hoffman
1992: Chaplin , of Richard Attenborough
1993: Funny of phantoms ( Heart and Drunk ), of Ron Underwood
1993: Shorts cuts ( Short Cuts ), of Robert Altman
1994: Hail Caesar , of Anthony Michael Hall
1994: Killers born ( Natural Born Killers ), of Oliver Stone
1994: Only you ( Only You ), of Norman Jewison
1995: Richard III , of Richard Loncraine
1995: Weekend in family ( Home for the Holidays ), of Jodie Foster
1995: Mr. Willowby' S Christmas Tree , of Jon Stone (TV) (short-measuring)
1995: the Gift of the king ( Restoration ), of Michael Hoffman
1996: Saturday Night Live , of Lorne Michaels (episode 6 season 22)
1997: Danger Zone , of Allan Eastman
1997: For one night… ( One Night Stand ), of Mike Figgis
1997: Two Girls and has Guy , of James Toback
1997: Hugo Pool , of Robert Downey Sr.
1998 : The Gingerbread Man , of Robert Altman
1998: U.S. Marshals , of Stuart Baird
1999: Premonitions ( In Dreams ), of Neil Jordan
1999: Friends & Lovers , of George Haas
1999: Bowfinger, king d' Hollywood ( Bowfinger ), of Frank OZ
1999: Black and White , of James Toback
2000: Wonder Servant boys , of Curtis Hanson
2000: Auto Justify , of Lorraine Bracco (short-measuring)
2000: Ale McBeal , of David E. Kelley (series TV)
2002: Lethargy , of David Gelb and Joshua Safdie (short-measuring)
2003: Whatever We Do , of Kevin Connolly (short-measuring)
2003: The Singing Detective , of Keith Gordon
2003: Gothika , of Mathieu Kassovitz and Thom Oliphant
2004: Eros , of Steven Soderbergh (segment Equilibrium )
2005: Range 6 , of Michael Hoffman
2005: Shane Black' S KIS KIS bang bang ( KIS KIS Bang Bang ), of Shane Black
2005: Good Night, and Good Luck. , of George Clooney
2005: Griffin ( Family Guy ), of Sarah Frost (series TV) (episode Conceited Guy Strangler )
2006: has Guide to Recognizing Your Saints , of Dito Montiel
2006: The Shaggy Dog , of Brian Robbins
2006: has Scanner Darkly , of Richard Linklater
2006: Lucky You , of Curtis Hanson
2006: Fur , of Steven Shainberg
2007: Zodiac (film) , of David Fincher

To come:

2008 : Iron Man , of Jon Favreau

As a scenario writer

1993 : The Last Party , of Mark Benjamin and Marc Levin

Trivia

the actor affirmed that his/her father is that which introduced it with drug by offering a joint of Marijuana to him when it was 8 years old.
It is a friend of childhood of Moby.

External bonds

Robert Downey Jr. on Internet Movie Database

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