Robert Downey Jr Is Hollywood's Highest-Paid Actor

Robert John Downey Jr. (born April four, 1965) is an American actor. Known for his charismatic performances and versatility, he changed into the very best-paid actor in Hollywood annually from 2013 to 2015. Downey's movies as a main actor have grossed over $14.Three billion international, making him one of the maximum-grossing movie stars of all time.

At the age of five, Downey made his acting debut in his father Robert Downey Sr.'s movie Pound (1970). He rose to prominence by way of running with the Brat Pack for the teenager movies Weird Science (1985) and Less than Zero (1987). His portrayal of Charlie Chaplin inside the biopic Chaplin (1992) earned him the BAFTA Award for Best Actor and an Academy Award nomination. After serving time on the Corcoran Substance Abuse Treatment Facility on drug charges, Downey joined the tv collection Ally McBeal in 2000, earning a Golden Globe for his performance. In 2001, he changed into brushed off from the show following similarly drug-related arrests. He entered a court-ordered rehabilitation software and has remained sober since 2003.

After Mel Gibson paid his insurance bond, Downey made his film comeback with The Singing Detective (2003). He portrayed the titular character in Sherlock Holmes (2009)—which earned him a Golden Globe—and its sequel, subtitled A Game of Shadows (2011). Downey won worldwide reputation for starring as Iron Man in ten Marvel Cinematic Universe movies, from Iron Man (2008) to Avengers: Endgame (2019). For his acclaimed portrayal of Lewis Strauss in Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer (2023), he won an Academy Award, a Golden Globe, and a BAFTA Award for Best Supporting Actor. In 2024, he was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for the miniseries The Sympathizer and made his Broadway debut in the identify position of Ayad Akhtar's McNeal.

In a profession spanning extra than five a long time, Downey has won severa accolades, together with an Academy Award, a Daytime Emmy Award, three Golden Globe Awards,  BAFTA Awards, and 3 Screen Actors Guild Awards. Time named him one of the a hundred maximum influential humans in 2008, and Forbes featured him on the Celebrity one hundred in 2013 and 2014. Downey has pursued song, freeing the jazz-pop album The Futurist (2004), which charted at the US Billboard two hundred. Divorced from Deborah Falconer, he has been married to Susan Levin considering the fact that 2005, with whom he co-founded the production organization Team Downey. He has 3 youngsters: one with Falconer and two with Levin.