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...