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    Robert John Downey Jr. (Born April 4, 1965)

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    Robert Downey Jr. is an American actor known for his roles in movies associated with the "Brat Pack" in the 1980s as well as his portrayal of Tony Stark/Iron Man in the Marvel Cinematic Universe films. After a period of substance abuse and legal issues in the 1990s and early 2000s, Downey went to rehab and achieved sobriety, leading to a resurgence in his career with roles in films like Sherlock Holmes and the Iron Man movies, several of which have grossed over $500 million. He has topped Forbes' list of highest-paid actors for three years running from 2012 to 2015.

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    Robert Downey Jr. is an American actor known for his roles in movies associated with the "Brat Pack" in the 1980s as well as his portrayal of Tony Stark/Iron Man in the Marvel Cinematic Universe films. After a period of substance abuse and legal issues in the 1990s and early 2000s, Downey went to rehab and achieved sobriety, leading to a resurgence in his career with roles in films like Sherlock Holmes and the Iron Man movies, several of which have grossed over $500 million. He has topped Forbes' list of highest-paid actors for three years running from 2012 to 2015.

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    Robert Downey Jr. is an American actor known for his roles in movies associated with the "Brat Pack" in the 1980s as well as his portrayal of Tony Stark/Iron Man in the Marvel Cinematic Universe films. After a period of substance abuse and legal issues in the 1990s and early 2000s, Downey went to rehab and achieved sobriety, leading to a resurgence in his career with roles in films like Sherlock Holmes and the Iron Man movies, several of which have grossed over $500 million. He has topped Forbes' list of highest-paid actors for three years running from 2012 to 2015.

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

    His career has included critical


    and popular success in his youth, followed by a period of substance abuse and legal troubles, and a
    resurgence of commercial success in middle age.
    Making his screen debut at the age of five, appearing in his father's film Pound (1970), he appeared
    in roles associated with the Brat Pack, such as the teen sci-fi comedy Weird Science (1985) and the
    drama Less Than Zero (1987). Other films he has starred in include the action comedy Air
    America (1990), the comedy Soapdish (1991), and the crime film Natural Born Killers (1994). He
    starred as Charlie Chaplin, the title character in the 1992 film Chaplin, which earned him a
    nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actor.
    After being released in 2000 from the California Substance Abuse Treatment Facility and State
    Prison where he was on drug charges, Downey joined the cast of the TV series Ally
    McBeal playing Calista Flockhart's love interest. His performance was praised and he received
    a Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Series,
    Miniseries, or Television Film. His character was written out when Downey was fired after two drug
    arrests in late 2000 and early 2001. After one last stay in a court-ordered drug treatment program,
    Downey finally achieved sobriety. In 2015, Downey received a pardon from Governor Jerry Brown.
    His more recent films include the musical comedy crime film The Singing Detective (2003), the
    supernatural horror film Gothika (2003), the crime comedy Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (2005), the
    animated science fiction thriller A Scanner Darkly (2006), the mystery thriller Zodiac (2007), and the
    satirical action comedy Tropic Thunder (2008), for which he was nominated for an Academy Award
    for Best Supporting Actor. Beginning in 2008, Downey has portrayed the role of Marvel
    Comics superhero Tony Stark/Iron Man in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, appearing in several films
    as either the lead role, member of an ensemble cast, or in a cameo. He played the title
    character in Guy Ritchie's Sherlock Holmes (2009) and its sequel (2011).
    Downey has starred in several movies that have each grossed over $500 million at the box office
    worldwide. Three of those films, The Avengers, Avengers: Age of Ultron and Iron Man 3, each
    earned over $1 billion. For three consecutive years from 2012 to 2015, Downey has topped
    the Forbes list of Hollywood's highest-paid actors, making an estimated $80 million in earnings
    between June 2014 and June 2015.

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