Robert Downey Jr. was Born on April 4,1965 in New York, New York.

Robert is the son of underground filmmaker Robert Downey Sr.

When Downey was 20 years old, he joined Saturday Night Live for one season.

In 1987, Robert Downey Jr. got the leading role in director James Toback's film "The Pick-Up Artist",

His performance in Chaplin (1992) was nothing short of astonishing, and it earned him an Academy Award nomination. Downey devoted himself to learning everything he could learn about Charlie Chaplin, in order to play the movies' supreme genius in both onscreen and offscreen guise, from youth to old age.

In 1993 Robert Downey Jr. delivered an assured comic performance in the sentimental fantasy Heart and Souls.

Robert Downey Jr.'s other notable credits include...

TROPIC THUNDER (2008)
THE INCREDIBLE HULK (2008)
IRON MAN (2008)
CHARLIE BARTLETT (2007)
LUCKY YOU (2007)
ZODIAC (2007)
A GUIDE TO RECOGNIZING YOUR SAINTS (2006)
A SCANNER DARKLY (2006)
THE SHAGGY DOG (2006)
GOOD NIGHT, AND GOOD LUCK (2005)
KISS KISS BANG BANG (2005)
GAME 6 (2005)
EROS (2004)
GOTHIKA (2003)
ALLY MCBEAL (2000-2001 TV series)
BOWFINGER (1999)
U.S. MARSHALS (1998)
NATURAL BORN KILLERS (1994)
CHAPLIN (1992)
SOAPDISH (1991)
JOHNNY BE GOOD (1989)
BACK TO SCHOOL (1986)
WEIRD SCIENCE (1985)