Robert Downey Jr.

**Robert John Downey Jr.** (born April 4, 1965) is an American actor. One of his most famous roles is Tony Stark in the _Marvel Cinematic Universe_ (2008–2019). He played Lewis Strauss in the 2023 Christopher Nolan movie _Oppenheimer_. He won an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, Screen Actors Guild Award and BAFTA Award for this role.

## Personal life

Downey was born in Manhattan, New York City, the younger of two children. His father, Robert Downey Sr. (1936 - 2021), was an actor, writer, producer, cinematographer, and director of underground films, and his mother, Elsie (née Ford) (1934 - 2014), was also an actress and appeared in Downey, Sr.'s movies. His paternal grandfather was of Lithuanian Jewish ancestry and his paternal grandmother was of Irish Canadian and Hungarian Jewish ancestry. His mother is of Scottish, English, German, and Swiss German ancestry. His father was born "Robert Elias", and changed his last name to "Downey" (after his stepfather James Downey), when he was a minor and wanted to enlist in the Army. He and his older sister, Allyson, grew up in Greenwich Village.

### Soundtrack appearances

|scope="col"|Year|scope="col"|Song|scope="col"|Soundtrack|scope="col" class="unsortable"|Notes|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|"Smile"|_Chaplin OST_|On _The Futurist_||||||
|""|_Heart and Souls OST_|With B.B. King||||||
|"White Christmas"|_Ally McBeal: A Very Ally Christmas_|With Vonda Shepard||||||
|"River"|_Ally McBeal: A Very Ally Christmas_|||||||
|"Every Breath You Take"|_Ally McBeal: For Once in My Life Featuring Vonda Shepard_|With Sting||||||
|"Chances Are"|_Ally McBeal: For Once in My Life Featuring Vonda Shepard_|With Vonda Shepard||||||
|"Snakes"|_Ally McBeal: For Once in My Life Featuring Vonda Shepard_|||||||
|"In My Dreams"|_The Singing Detective OST_|||||||
|"In My Dreams"|_The Futurist_|||||||
|"Broken"|_Kiss Kiss Bang Bang OST_|On _The Futurist_||||||

### Movie

|scope="col"|Year|scope="col"|Title|scope="col"|Role|scope="col" class="unsortable"|Notes|scope="col" class="unsortable"||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|_Pound_|Puppy||style="text-align: center;"|||||||
|_Greaser's Palace_|Unnamed Quasimodo-like child||style="text-align: center;"|||||||
|_Moment to Moment_|Himself|Uncredited; also co-producer Aka _Two Tons of Turquoise to Taos Tonight_|style="text-align: center;"|||||||
|_Up the Academy_|Boy on Soccer Team|Uncredited|style="text-align: center;"|||||||
|_Baby It's You_|Stewart||style="text-align: center;"|||||||
|_Firstborn_|Lee||style="text-align: center;"|||||||
|_Tuff Turf_|||style="text-align: center;"|||||||
|_Girls Just Want to Have Fun_|Punk Party Crasher|Uncredited|style="text-align: center;"|||||||
|_Weird Science_|Ian||style="text-align: center;"|||||||
|_Deadwait_||Short|style="text-align: center;"|||||||
|_Back to School_|||style="text-align: center;"|||||||
|__|||style="text-align: center;"|||||||
|_Less Than Zero_|||style="text-align: center;"|||||||
|_Johnny Be Good_|||style="text-align: center;"|||||||
|_Rented Lips_|||style="text-align: center;"|||||||
|_1969_|||style="text-align: center;"|||||||
|_That's Adequate_|||style="text-align: center;"|||||||
|_True Believer_|||style="text-align: center;"|||||||
|_Chances Are_|||style="text-align: center;"|||||||
|_Air America_|||style="text-align: center;"|||||||
|_Too Much Sun_|||style="text-align: center;"|||||||
|_Soapdish_|||style="text-align: center;"|||||||
|_Chaplin_|||style="text-align: center;"|||||||
|_Heart and Souls_|||style="text-align: center;"|||||||
|__|Himself|Also writer|style="text-align: center;"|||||||
|_Short Cuts_|||style="text-align: center;"|||||||
|_Hail Caesar_|Jerry||style="text-align: center;"|||||||
|_Natural Born Killers_|||style="text-align: center;"|||||||
|_Only You_|||style="text-align: center;"|||||||
|_Richard III_|||style="text-align: center;"|||||||
|_Home for the Holidays_|||style="text-align: center;"|||||||
|_Mr. Willowby's Christmas Tree_|||style="text-align: center;"|||||||
|_Restoration_|||style="text-align: center;"|||||||
|_Danger Zone_|||style="text-align: center;"|||||||
|_One Night Stand_|Charlie||style="text-align: center;"|||||||
|_Two Girls and a Guy_|||style="text-align: center;"|||||||
|_Hugo Pool_|||style="text-align: center;"|||||||
|__|||style="text-align: center;"|||||||
|_U.S. Marshals_|||style="text-align: center;"|||||||
|_In Dreams_|||style="text-align: center;"|||||||
|_Friends & Lovers_|Hans||style="text-align: center;"|||||||
|_Bowfinger_|||style="text-align: center;"|||||||
|_Black and White_|||style="text-align: center;"|||||||
|_Wonder Boys_|||style="text-align: center;"|||||||
|_Lethargy_|Animal therapist|Short|style="text-align: center;"|||||||
|_Whatever We Do_|Bobby|Short|style="text-align: center;"|||||||
|__|||style="text-align: center;"|||||||
|_Charlie: The Life and Art of Charles Chaplin_|Charles Chaplin||style="text-align: center;"|||||||
|_Gothika_|||style="text-align: center;"|||||||
|_Eros_||Segment: "Equilibrium"|style="text-align: center;"|||||||
|_Game 6_|||style="text-align: center;"|||||||
|_Kiss Kiss Bang Bang_|||style="text-align: center;"|||||||
|__|Himself|Documentary|style="text-align: center;"|||||||
|_Good Night, and Good Luck_|||style="text-align: center;"|||||||
|_Hubert Selby Jr_|Narrator|Documentary|style="text-align: center;"|||||||
|__||Also co-producer|style="text-align: center;"|||||||
|__|||style="text-align: center;"|||||||
|__|||style="text-align: center;"|||||||
|_Fur_|||style="text-align: center;"|||||||
|_Zodiac_|||style="text-align: center;"|||||||
|_Lucky You_|Telephone Jack|Cameo|style="text-align: center;"|||||||
|_Charlie Bartlett_|Principal Nathan Gardner||style="text-align: center;"|||||||
|_Iron Man_|rowspan="2"|||style="text-align: center;"||||||
|__|Post-credits scene|style="text-align: center;"||||||||
|_Tropic Thunder_|||style="text-align: center;"|||||||
|__|||style="text-align: center;"|||||||
|_Sherlock Holmes_|||style="text-align: center;"|||||||
|_Iron Man 2_|||style="text-align: center;"|||||||
|_Love & Distrust_|Rob|Segment: "Auto Motives"|style="text-align: center;"|||||||
|_Due Date_|||style="text-align: center;"|||||||
|_Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows_|||style="text-align: center;"|||||||
|_The Avengers_|rowspan="2"|||style="text-align: center;"||||||
|_Iron Man 3_||style="text-align: center;"||||||||
|_Chef_|Marvin||style="text-align: center;"|||||||
|__||Also executive producer|style="text-align: center;"|||||||
|_Avengers: Age of Ultron_|rowspan="5"|||style="text-align: center;"||||||
|_Captain America: Civil War_||style="text-align: center;"||||||||
|_Spider-Man: Homecoming_||style="text-align: center;"||||||||
|2018|_Avengers: Infinity War_|||||||||
|2019|_Avengers: Endgame_|||||||||
|2020|_Dolittle_|Dr. Dolittle||||||||
|2021|_Black Widow_|Tony Stark /Iron Man||||||||
|2021|All-Star Weekend|Mexican||Post-production||||||

### Television

|scope="col"|Year|scope="col"|Title|scope="col"|Role|scope="col" class="unsortable"|Notes|scope="col" class="unsortable"||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|_Saturday Night Live_|Cast member|18 episodes|style="text-align: center;"|||||||
|_Mussolini: The Untold Story_||Mini-series|style="text-align: center;"|||||||
|_Saturday Night Live_|Host|Episode: "Robert Downey Jr./Fiona Apple"|style="text-align: center;"|||||||
|_Ally McBeal_||25 episodes|style="text-align: center;"|||||||
|_Family Guy_||Episode: "The Fat Guy Strangler"|style="text-align: center;"|||||||
|_What If...?_|Tony Stark /Iron Man|Guest star Recording voice acting||||||||

### Video game

|scope="col"|Year|scope="col"|Title|scope="col"|Role|scope="col"|Notes|scope="col"||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|_Iron Man_|rowspan=2|Tony Stark|rowspan=2|Iron Man's dialogue filled in by Stephen Stanton|style="text-align: center;"|||||
|_Iron Man 3: The Official Game_|style="text-align: center;"|||||||||

## Other websites

- Robert Downey, Jr interview at www.reviewgraveyard.com
- Robert Downey Jr. LiveJournal Community
- https://www.celebszone.com/robert-downey-jr-quotes/  on https://www.celebszone.com/

## Infobox (person)

- **name**: Robert Downey Jr.
- **image**: Robert Downey Jr 2014 Comic Con (cropped).jpg
- **caption**: Downey at the 2014 San Diego Comic Con
- **birth name**: Robert John Downey Jr.
- **birth place**: New York City, New York (state), New York, U.S.
- **years active**: 1970–present
- **father**: Robert Downey Sr.
- **partner**: Sarah Jessica Parker
(1983–1991)
- **children**: 3