Robert Downey, Jr.

Robert Downey, Jr. (b. 1965) is an Academy Award winning actor. He starred as Mr. Willowby in the 1995 TV special Mr. Willowby's Christmas Tree.
Downey was a cast member of Saturday Night Live during the 1985 to 1986 season. Graduating to comedic film roles, such as the all-star Soapdish (with Sally Field, Kevin Kline, Whoopi Goldberg, Teri Hatcher, and Kathy Najimy), and playing Albert Einstein in That's Adequate, Downey turned to dramatic roles. Nominated for an Oscar for playing Charlie Chaplin in Richard Attenborough's Chaplin, he later re-emerged with a turn on Ally McBeal and more artistic films such as Good Night and Good Luck (the story behind Edward R. Murrow's journalistic coverage of Joseph McCarthy) and The Singing Detective (with Katie Holmes). 
Downey fully returned to stardom as the title characters in two franchises: Iron Man for Marvel Comics and Sherlock Holmes (with Jude Law). Other films include Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, Zodiac (with Jake Gyllenhaal) and Tropic Thunder (with Ben Stiller and Jack Black).
==References==
* When Cookie Monster appeared on The Colbert Report in 2008, he responds to Stephen Colbert who asserts that he wants to eat cookies all the time. Cookie told him that he's been there, referencing "crazy" times in the 70s and 80s, and calling himself the Robert Downey, Jr. of cookies.
* On August 2, 2017, Uncle Deadly tweeted, "Dress for the job you want, not the job you have. I'll be dressing as @RobertDowneyJr all week in hopes this advice pays off." 
==External links==
* IMDb
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