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Robert John Downey, Jr. (born April 4, 1965) is an American actor who made his screen debut at the age of five, appearing in his father Robert Downey, Sr.'s film Pound. He has appeared in roles associated with the Brat Pack, such as Less Than Zero and Weird Science. Other films he has starred in include Air America, Soapdish, and Natural Born Killers. He starred as Charlie Chaplin, the title character in the 1992 film Chaplin, earning him a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actor. His more recent films include The Singing Detective, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, A Scanner Darkly, Gothika, Zodiac and Tropic Thunder. In 2008, Downey played the role of Marvel superhero Tony Stark / Iron Man in the live action film Iron Man, a role he reprised in Iron Man 2, Marvel's The Avengers, and Iron Man 3. He reprised his role in a cameo appearance in The Incredible Hulk. In 2009, he played the title character in Guy Ritchie's Sherlock Holmes and again in 2011's Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows. He's starred in six movies that have each grossed over $500 million at the box office worldwide. Two of those films, The Avengers and Iron Man 3, each earned over $1 billion. Downey tops the Forbes list of Hollywood's Highest-Paid Actors with an estimated $75 million in earnings between June 2012 and June 2013.
Robert John Downey, Jr. (born April 4, 1965) is an American actor who made his screen debut at the age of five, appearing in his father Robert Downey, Sr.'s film Pound. He has appeared in roles associated with the Brat Pack, such as Less Than Zero and Weird Science. Other films he has starred in include Air America, Soapdish, and Natural Born Killers. He starred as Charlie Chaplin, the title character in the 1992 film Chaplin, earning him a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actor.
His more recent films include The Singing Detective, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, A Scanner Darkly, Gothika, Zodiac and Tropic Thunder. In 2008, Downey played the role of Marvel superhero Tony Stark / Iron Man in the live action film Iron Man, a role he reprised in Iron Man 2, Marvel's The Avengers, and Iron Man 3. He reprised his role in a cameo appearance in The Incredible Hulk. He will again reprise his role in the upcoming films, Marvel's The Avengers: Age of Ultron and another Avengers sequel. In 2009, he played the title character in Guy Ritchie's Sherlock Holmes and again in 2011's Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows. He's starred in six movies that have each grossed over $500 million at the box office worldwide. Two of those films, The Avengers and Iron Man 3, each earned over $1 billion. Downey tops the Forbes list of Hollywood's Highest-Paid Actors with an estimated $75 million in earnings between June 2012 and June 2013.
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Downey's record holds both ends of a film career. He debuted at five in his father Robert Downey, Sr.'s film Pound, passed through Brat Pack roles in Less Than Zero and Weird Science and films such as Air America, Soapdish and Natural Born Killers, and earned an Academy Award nomination for playing Charlie Chaplin in Chaplin (1992). The comeback titles — The Singing Detective, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, A Scanner Darkly, Gothika, Zodiac and Tropic Thunder — led to Tony Stark: Iron Man (2008), Iron Man 2, Marvel's The Avengers and Iron Man 3, a cameo in The Incredible Hulk, and Guy Ritchie's Sherlock Holmes (2009) and Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (2011). Six of his films have grossed over $500 million each.
This page gathers Robert Downey Jr. photos, videos, news and blog posts, with search routes to each through Bing, Google and YouTube, plus a linked October 2008 news item recording him spotted wearing a Splendid Mills hoodie — the most concrete fashion note in this batch, a named garment on a named date. Downey stands in the R letter of the male directory inside the Male Fashion Celebrities Q-Z range, alongside Richard Gere, Rob Lowe and Russell Crowe. A fashion celebrity in this guide is a person with celebrity status who is often watched and judged for what they wear.
Downey starred as Charlie Chaplin, the title character in the 1992 film Chaplin, earning him a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actor.
The guide links to an October 2008 news item: Robert Downey Jr. spotted wearing a Splendid Mills hoodie.
Downey topped the Forbes list of Hollywood's Highest-Paid Actors with an estimated $75 million in earnings between June 2012 and June 2013. He has starred in six movies that each grossed over $500 million worldwide, and The Avengers and Iron Man 3 each earned over $1 billion.
Robert Downey Jr. Spotted Wearing Splendid Mills Hoodie Oct. 2008
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