Robert downey jr. Success Story....
Robert John Downey Jr. (conceived April 4, 1965) is an
American entertainer and maker. His vocation has been portrayed by basic and
famous achievement in his childhood, trailed by a time of substance misuse and
legitimate difficulties, before a resurgence of business achievement later in
his profession. In 2008, Downey was named by Time magazine among the 100 most
persuasive individuals on the planet, and from 2013 to 2015, he was recorded by
Forbes as Hollywood's most generously compensated entertainer.
At five years old, he made his acting presentation in Robert
Downey Sr's. film Pound in 1970. He in this manner worked with the Brat Pack in
the teenager movies Weird Science (1985) and Less Than Zero (1987). In 1992,
Downey depicted the title character in the biopic Chaplin, for which he was
assigned for the Academy Award for Best Actor and won a BAFTA Award. Following
a spell at the Corcoran Substance Abuse Treatment Facility on drug charges, he
joined the TV series Ally McBeal, for which he won a Golden Globe Award. He was
terminated from the show in the wake of medication charges in 2000 and 2001. He
remained in a court-requested medication treatment program and has kept up with
his balance starting around 2003.
At first, bond fulfillment organizations would not safeguard
Downey, until Mel Gibson paid the protection bond for the 2003 film The Singing
Detective. He proceeded to star in the dark parody Kiss Bang (2005), the
thrill ride Zodiac (2007), and the activity satire Tropic Thunder (2008); for
the last he was named for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. Downey
acquired worldwide acknowledgment for featuring as 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 procured him his second Golden Globe, and its spin-off, Sherlock
Holmes: A Game of Shadows (2011).
Early life and family::- -
Downey was brought into the world in Manhattan, New YorkCity, the more youthful of two kids. His dad, Robert Downey Sr., was an
entertainer and movie producer, while his mom, Elsie Ann (née Ford), was an
entertainer who showed up in Downey Sr's. films. Downey's dad was of half
Lithuanian-Jewish, one-quarter Hungarian-Jewish, and one-quarter Irish drop,
while Downey's mom had Scottish, German, and Swiss family. Robert's unique
family name was Elias which was changed by his dad to enroll in the Army.
Downey and his more established sister Allyson experienced childhood in
Greenwich Village.
As a youngster, Downey was "encompassed by drugs."
His dad, a medication junkie, permitted Downey to utilize cannabis at age six,
an occurrence which his dad later said he lamented. Downey later expressed that
medication use turned into an enthusiastic connection among him and his dad:
"When my father and I would take sedates together, it resembled him
attempting to communicate his adoration for me in the main manner he knew
how." Eventually, Downey started going through consistently manhandling
liquor and "settling on 1,000 telephone decisions in quest for
drugs".
During his adolescence, Downey played minor parts in his
dad's movies. He made his acting presentation at five years old, playing a
debilitated little dog in the absurdist satire Pound (1970), and afterward at
seven showed up in the surrealist Western Greaser's Palace (1972). At 10 years
old, he was living in England and concentrated on traditional expressive dance
as a feature of a bigger educational plan. He went to the Stage-door Manor
Performing Arts Training Center in upstate New York as a youngster. At the
point when his folks separated in 1978, Downey moved to California with his
dad, yet in 1982, he exited Santa Monica High School, and moved back to New
York to seek after an acting vocation full-time.
Downey and Kiefer Sutherland, who shared the screen in the
1988 dramatization 1969, were flat mates for quite a long time when he previously
moved to Hollywood to seek after his vocation in acting.
Vocation::-
1983–1995::-
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 essential for the new, more youthful
cast recruited for Saturday Night Live, however following a time of helpless
appraisals and analysis of the new cast's comedic gifts, he and a large portion
of the new group were dropped and supplanted. He was considered for the job of
Duckie in John Hughes' film Pretty in Pink (1986), however his first lead job
was with Molly Ringwald in The Pick-up Artist (1987). In 1987, Downey played
Julian Wells, a medication dependent rich kid whose life quickly twistings out
of his control. Zero drove Downey into films with greater financial plans and
names, like Chances Are (1989) with Cybill Shepherd and Ryan O'Neal, Air
America (1990) with Mel Gibson, and Soapdish (1991) with Sally Field, Kevin
Kline, and Whoopi Goldberg. In 1992, he featured as Charlie Chaplin in Chaplin,
a job for which he arranged extensively.In 1993, he showed up in the movies
Heart and Souls with Alfre Woodard and Kyra Sedgwick and Short Cuts with
Matthew Modine and Julianne Moore, alongside a narrative that he expounded on
the 1992 official missions named The Last Party. He featured in the 1994
movies, Only You with Marisa Tomei, and Natural Born Killers with Woody
Harrelson. He then, at that point, consequently showed up in Restoration
(1995), Richard III (1995), Two Girls and a Guy (1997),[36] as Special Agent
John Royce in U.S. Marshals (1998), and in Black and White (1999).
1996–2001:::- - (Career difficulties)
In April 1996, Downey was captured for ownership of heroin,
cocaine, and a dumped .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' probation and was requested to go through necessary 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.
After Downey missed one more required medication test in
1999, he was captured once more. In spite of Downey's legal advisor, Robert
Shapiro, collecting the very group of attorneys that had effectively shielded
O. J. Simpson during his criminal preliminary for murder, Downey was
condemned to a three-year jail term at the California Substance Abuse Treatment
Facility and State Prison in Corcoran, California. At the hour of the capture,
all of Downey's film projects had wrapped and were near discharge. He had been
employed to give the voice of Satan on the NBC enlivened TV series God, theDevil and Bob, yet was terminated when he neglected to go to practices.
Prior to the furthest limit of his first season on AllyMcBeal, over the Thanksgiving 2000 occasion, Downey was captured when his room
at Merv Griffin's Hotel and Givenchy Spa in Palm Springs, California, was
looked by the police, who were reacting to an unknown emergency call. Downey
was affected by a controlled substance and possessing cocaine and Valium.
Notwithstanding the way that, whenever indicted, he would have confronted a
jail sentence of as long as four years and eight months, he endorsed on to show
up in somewhere around eight more Ally McBeal scenes.
In April 2001, while Downey was on parole, a Los Angeles cop
thought that he is 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 showed he had cocaine in his framework.
After this last capture, Ally McBeal chiefs requested somewhat late revamps and
reshoots and terminated Downey, in spite of the way that Downey's person had revived
Ally McBeal's evaluations.
2001–2007: Resurgence::-
Following five years of substance misuse, captures,
recovery, and backslide, Downey was prepared to pursue a full recuperation from
medications and return to his vocation. In examining his bombed endeavors to
control his habit-forming conduct previously, Downey told Oprah Winfrey in
November 2004 that "when somebody says, 'I truly keep thinking about
whether perhaps I ought to follow a path toward full recovery?' Well, uh,
you're a disaster area, you just lost your employment, and your significant
other left you. Uh, you should give it a shot." He added that after his
last capture in April 2001, when he realized he would almost certainly be
confronting one more stretch in jail or one more type of detainment, for
example, court-requested recovery, "I said, 'Guess what? I don't figure I
can keep doing this.' And I connected for help, and I went for it. You can
connect for help in sort of a pathetic manner and you'll get it and you will
not exploit it. It isn't so hard to defeat these apparently appalling issues
... what's hard is to choose to do it."
Downey got his first post-recovery acting position in August 2001, lip-matching up in the video for Elton John's single "I WantLove". Downey had the option to get back to the big screen after Mel Gibson, who had been a dear companion to Downey since both had co-featured in Air America, paid Downey's protection bond for the 2003 film The SingingDetective. On November 23, 2004, Downey delivered his introduction melodic collection, The Futurist, on Sony Classical. In 2007, Downey showed up in David Fincher's secret thrill ride Zodiac, which depended on a genuine story. He assumed the part of San Francisco Chronicle writer Paul Avery, who was detailing the Zodiac Killer case.
2008–present: Marvel Cinematic Universe and further
achievement
With all of the basic achievement Downey had encountered all
through his profession, he had not showed up in a "blockbuster" film.
That changed in 2008 when Downey featured in two fundamentally and monetarily
effective movies, Iron Man and Tropic Thunder. In the article Ben Stiller
composed for Downey's entrance in the 2008 version of The Time 100, he
expressed an impression on Downey's monetarily effective summer in the cinema
world:
Indeed, Downey is Iron Man, yet he truly is Actor Man ... In
the domain where film industry is insignificant and ability is best, the domain
that really implies something, he has consistently controlled, lastly this mid
year he will have his cake and allowed us to gobble him up right to the
multiplex, where his dominance is in full impact.
— Ben Stiller, The 2008 Time 100, passage No. 60,
"Robert Downey Jr.
In 2007, Downey was given a role as the title character in
the movie Iron Man, with chief Jon Favreau clarifying the decision by
expressing: "Downey wasn't the most clear decision, however he got what is
most important to the person. He discovered his very own great deal beneficial
involvement with 'Tony Stark. Iron Man was universally delivered between April
30 and May 3, 2008, earning more than $585 million worldwide and getting rave
surveys which refered 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
spin-offs, as a component of the Iron Man establishment, just as The Avengers,
highlighting the hero group that Stark joins, in light of Marvel's comic book
series The Avengers. He initially repeated the job in a little appearance as
Iron Man's change inner self Tony Stark in the 2008 film The Incredible Hulk,
as a piece of Marvel Studios' portraying a similar Marvel Universe on film by
giving progression among the motion pictures.
The main job Downey acknowledged after Iron Man was the
title character in Guy Ritchie's Sherlock Holmes. Warner Bros. delivered it on
December 25, 2009. The film set a few film industry standards in the United
States for a Christmas Day discharge, beating the past record-holder, 2008's
Marley and Me, by almost $10M, and completed second to Avatar in an unrivaled
Christmas weekend film industry. Sherlock Holmes wound up being the eighth most
elevated earning film of 2009. At the point when Downey won the Golden Globe
for Best Actor in a Motion Picture Musical or Comedy from the Hollywood Foreign
Press Association for his job as Sherlock Holmes, he noted in his
acknowledgment discourse that he had arranged no comments on the grounds that
"Susan Downey (his better half and Sherlock Holmes maker) let me know that
Matt Damon (named for his part in The Informant!) planned to win so try not to
set up a discourse".
Downey returned as Tony Stark in the first of two arranged
continuations of Iron Man, Iron Man 2, which delivered in May 2010. Iron Man 2
earned more than $623M around the world, turning into the seventh most
noteworthy netting film of 2010. Downey's other business film arrival of 2010
was the satire street film, Due Date. The film, co-featuring Zach Galifianakis,
was delivered in November 2010 and netted more than $211M around the world,
making it the 36th most noteworthy earning film of 2010. Downey's sole 2011
film credit was the continuation of the 2009 adaptation of Sherlock Holmes,
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows, which opened worldwide on December 16,
2011.
In 2012, Downey repeated the job of Tony Stark in The Avengers. The film got positive surveys and was exceptionally effective in the
cinematic world, turning into the third most elevated netting film ever both in
the United States and around the world. His movie, the David Dobkin-coordinated
dramedy The Judge, an undertaking co-created by his creation organization Team
Downey, was the initial film at the Toronto International Film Festival in
2014.[ Downey played Tony Stark again in Iron Man 3 (2013), Avengers: Age ofUltron (2015), Captain America: Civil War (2016), Spider-Man: Homecoming(2017), Avengers: Infinity War (2018), Avengers: Endgame (2019) and three of
his scenes from the primary Avengers and Avengers: Endgame likewise show up in
the main scene of Loki.
Downey facilitated The Age of A.I., a YouTube narrative
series delivered in 2019. In 2020, he featured in Dolittle, playing the nominal
person, portrayed in the film as a nineteenth century Welsh veterinarian who
can speak with creatures. This was the second film from Team Downey. It was a
film industry disillusionment, and got negative surveys from pundits, who
called it "too long [and] inert."
Impending tasks
Downey will show up in the games satire dramatization movie
All-Star Weekend, coordinated by Jamie Foxx. He will repeat his job as Holmes
in a third movie, booked for discharge on December 22, 2021 however it is
required to be postponed endlessly as per chief Dexter Fletcher.
On July 15, 2021, it was reported that Downey would co-star
in the TV transformation of writer Viet Thanh Nguyen's novel, The Sympathizer.
Music::
Downey has sung on a few soundtracks for his movies,
including for Chaplin, Too Much Sun, Two Girls and a Guy, Friends and Lovers,
The Singing Detective, and Kiss Bang. In 2001, he showed up in the music video
for Elton John's melody, "I Want Love". He delivered a CD in 2004
called The Futurist, and keeping in mind that advancing his film Tropic
Thunder, he and his co-stars Ben Stiller and Jack Black were back-up vocalists
"The Pips" to Gladys Knight singing "12 PM Train to
Georgia".
Downey's most financially effective recording dare to date
(joining deals and radio airplay) has been his redo of the 1973 Joni Mitchell
Christmas melody "Stream", which was remembered for the Ally McBeal
tie-in collection Ally McBeal: A Very Ally Christmas, delivered in 2000;
Downey's person Larry Paul plays out the tune in the Ally McBeal scene
"Tis the Season".
Creation organization
On June 14, 2010, Downey and his significant other Susan
opened their own creation organization called Team Downey. Their first task was
The Judge.
Personal life::
Downey began dating entertainer Sarah Jessica Parker in 1984
in the wake of meeting her on the arrangement of Firstborn. The couple later
isolated in 1991 because of his medication addiction.
He wedded entertainer and artist Deborah Falconer on May 29,
1992, following a 42-day courtship. Their child, Indio Falconer Downey, was
brought into the world in September 1993. The strain on their marriage from
Downey's rehashed excursions to recovery and prison at long last arrived at a
limit; in 2001, amidst Downey's last capture and condemning to an all-inclusive
visit in recovery, Falconer left Downey and took their child with her. Downey and Falconer concluded their separation
on April 26, 2004.
Downey with spouse Susan Downey at the 2010 Academy Awards
In 2003, Downey met maker Susan Levin, an Executive Vice
President of Production at Joel Silver's film organization, Silver Pictures on
the arrangement of Gothika. Though Susan twice turned down his affectionate
advances, she and Downey did unobtrusively strike up a sentiment during production.
Despite Susan's concerns that the sentiment would not endure after the
culmination of shooting since "he's an entertainer; I have a genuine
job", the couple's relationship proceeded after creation wrapped on
Gothika, and Downey proposed to Susan on the night prior to her 30th birthday.
In August 2005, the couple were hitched, in a Jewish service, at Amagansett,
New York. A tattoo on one of his biceps peruses "Suzie Q" in accolade
for her. The Downeys' first kid, a child named Exton Elias, was brought into the
world in February 2012, and their second, a little girl named Avri Roel, was
brought into the world in November 2014.
Downey has been a dear companion of Mel Gibson since they
featured in Air America. Downey guarded Gibson during the discussion
encompassing The Passion of the Christ, and said "no one's ideal"
regarding Gibson's DUI. Gibson said of Downey: "He was one of the main
individuals to call and offer the hand of companionship. He recently said,
'Hello, welcome to the club. We should go see how we can deal with work on
ourselves.'" In October 2011, Downey was being respected at the 25th
American Cinematheque Awards; Downey picked Gibson to give him his honor for
his all consuming purpose and utilized his broadcast appointment to say a
couple of kind words regarding Gibson and clarify why he picked him to
introduce the award.
Strict convictions::
Downey has portrayed his strict convictions as "JewishBuddhist", and he is accounted for to have counseled astrologers. before,
Downey has been keen on Christianity and the Hare Krishna movement.
Political perspectives::
In a 2008 meeting, Downey expressed that his time in jail
changed his political perspective to some degree, saying: "I have a truly
fascinating political perspective, and it's not continually something I say
excessively noisy at supper tables here, however you can't go from a
$2,000-a-night suite at La Mirage to a prison and truly get it and come out a
liberal. You can't. I wouldn't wish that experience on any other individual,
yet it was incredibly, instructive for myself and has illuminated my
proclivities and governmental issues ever since." However, when gotten
some information about the statement in a 2015 meeting to advance Avengers: Age
of Ultron, he rejected that his past assertion mirrored any longstanding
convictions on his part, and expressed: "I wouldn't say that I'm a
Republican or a liberal or a Democrat."
Downey serves on the leading group of the Anti-RecidivismCoalition.
In January 2020, during the advancements of his film
Dolittle, Downey reported that he had settled on the choice to embrace a
vegetarian diet, in light of the discussion about the environment emergency,
expressing that "I'm a limited carbon impression bad dream colossus"
and accepts he can do his part to contribute. Downey recently reported his
opening of The Footprint Coalition, an association he dispatched to decrease
carbon impressions all throughout the planet utilizing progressed technology.
The Footprint Coalition advances innovations that ensure the climate, for
example, French bug cultivating startup Ynsect, the bio-based option in
contrast to plastic producer RWDC, and bamboo tissue maker Cloud Paper.
Networth::-
Robert Downey Jr. has total assets of $300 million, which
has been procured over many years of working in film and theater. Downey has
made most of his cash from Marvel's Iron Man and Avengers film series. Wonder
pays its entertainers dependent on how long they've been with the studio. This
is the reason Robert Downey Jr. was "as it were" paid $500,000 for
the primary Iron Man film. For his subsequent Iron Man film, which made $623
million universally, Downey was paid $10 million. Repeating his job as Tony
Stark/Iron man in the main Avengers film, Downey's base compensation was $10
million, however through back-end bargains, he wound up making about $50
million. A similar arrangement was struck for Iron Man 3, which was the
person's last independent film. Robert Downey Jr. additionally made $50 million
from this film, which netted $1.2 billion.
In the Avengers continuation, Avengers: Age of Ultron, no
one is sure precisely the amount Robert Downey Jr. made, yet it would have been
between $50 million and $80 million. The film that followed, Captain America:
Civil War, acquired Downey one more $50 million for his job as Tony Stark/Iron
Man, in addition to a $5 million reward for assisting the film with performing
other Captain America motion pictures.
He made extra back-end bargains on that appearance also. Altogether,
Robert Downey Jr. left with about $64 million. For his appearance in
Spider-Man: Homecoming, Robert Downey Jr. made about $1 million every moment of
screen time, passing on him with a sum of $10 million to $15 million. The film
made about $880 million around the world. Vindicators: Infinity War made more
than $2 billion around the world, and Robert Downey Jr. made basically $75
million after the benefit sharing arrangements. His last film in the job of
Iron Man was Avengers: End Game. He made $75 million, or more 8% of the almost
$2.8 billion that the film netted.
Award Of Dawney ::-
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Year |
Nominated work |
Category |
Result |
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1992 |
Chaplin |
Best Actor in a
Leading Role |
Won |
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Year |
Nominated work |
Category |
Result |
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1994 |
Short Cuts |
Special Award for Ensemble (non-competitive) |
Recipient |
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2010 |
Sherlock Holmes |
Best Actor –
Motion Picture Musical or Comedy |
Won |
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Year |
Nominated work |
Category |
Result |
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2014 |
Iron Man 3 |
Favorite Male
Butt Kicker |
Won |
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2019 |
Avengers:
Infinity War |
Favorite Superhero |
Won |
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2021 |
Dolittle |
Favorite Movie Actor |
Won |
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Year |
Nominated work |
Category |
Result |
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2013 |
The Avengers |
Best
Fight (with The Avengers cast) |
Won |
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2015 |
— |
MTV Generation Award |
Awarded |
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2019 |
Avengers:
Endgame |
Best Hero |
Won |
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Year |
Nominated work |
Category |
Result |
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2013 |
The Avengers |
Favorite Movie
Actor |
Won |
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Favorite Movie
Superhero |
Won |
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2014 |
Iron Man 3 |
Favorite Action
Movie Actor |
Won |
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2015 |
The Judge |
Favorite Movie
Actor |
Won |
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2017 |
Captain America:
Civil War |
Favorite Action
Movie Actor |
Won |
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Year |
Nominated work |
Category |
Result |
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1993 |
Heart and Souls |
Best Actor |
Won |
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2009 |
Iron Man |
Best Actor |
Won |
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2014 |
Iron Man 3 |
Best Actor |
Won |
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2019 |
Avengers:
Endgame |
Best Actor |
Won |
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Year |
Nominated work |
Category |
Result |
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2015 |
Iron Man 3 |
Choice Movie
Actor: Action |
Won |
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2018 |
Avengers:
Infinity War |
Choice Action
Movie Actor |
Won |
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2019 |
Avengers:
Endgame |
Choice Action
Movie Actor |
Won |
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Year |
Nominated work |
Category |
Result |
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2001 |
Ally McBeal |
Best Supporting
Actor – Series, Miniseries or Television Film |
Won |
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Year |
Nominated work |
Category |
Result |
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2001 |
Ally McBeal |
Outstanding
Performance by a Male Actor in a Comedy Series |
Won |
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