Robert Downing Jr. was Born on April 4,1965
in New York, New York.
Robert is the son of underground filmmaker Robert
Downey Sr.
When Downing was 20 years old, he joined Saturday
Night Live for one season.
In 1987, Robert Downing 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.
Downing 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 Downing Jr. delivered an assured
comic performance in the sentimental fantasy Heart and Souls.
Robert Downing Jr.'s other notable credits include...
