Robert Downey Jr.
American actor (born 1965)
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- Robert claims that Burger King saved his life from his drug addiction.
- He's the first regular cast member of "Saturday Night Live" (1975)to be nominated for an Academy Award in the category "Best Actor in a Leading Role". Joan Cusack and Dan Aykroyd were also nominated for Academy Awards some years before Robert, but both of them were nominated for supporting actor/ actress.
- He took daily drug tests during the filming of Two Girls and a Guy (1997).
- Met wife Susan Downey on the set of Gothika (2003).
- Released from prison on $5,000 bail. (2 August 2000)
- Son of Robert Downey Sr..
- He proposed to Susan Downey on her 30th birthday.
- Downey enjoyed working with the director of the Elton John music video (contemporary artist Sam Taylor Wood) so much that he suggested they work together again on an art piece. The result was an art video called "Pietà ", made in the manner of Michelangelo's famous religious pietà in Rome. It can be seen as a part of Sam Taylor Wood's exhibition "Mute" at the White Cube 2 art gallery in London, November 23 to January 12, 2002.
- Before he starred as Iron Man (2008) , he had done films with three of the actors who played Batman - George Clooney Good Night, and Good Luck. (2005), Val Kilmer Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (2005) and 'Michael Keaton' Game 6 (2005).
- Claims that his father is the one who introduced him to drugs, by offering him a marijuana joint when he was 8.
- While drunk, he wandered into a neighbors Malibu home that he thought was his own, and fell asleep on the bed. He was arrested for being under the influence of drugs which was a 3rd violation of his probation.
- Attended Stagedoor Manor.
- Downey re-arrested on drugs and weapons charges in Palm Springs, California at the luxurious Merv Griffin resort, after an anonymous tip to police. Downey was found alone, with cocaine and methamphetimines. He cooperated with police, spent the night in jail, and was released the next morning on $15,000.00 bail. Downey had been on a career upswing with his successful stint on "Ally McBeal" (1997), and his upcoming stage performance as Hamlet, set for January, 2001 in Los Angeles, to be directed by his friend, Mel Gibson. (25 November 2000)
- Kept a lot of the authentic vintage clothing he wore in the movie Chaplin (1992).
- Starred in Elton John's music video for the song "I Want Love." Downey was let out of rehab for one day in late July specifically to shoot the video (which was filmed in one long continuous take at Greystone Manor in Beverley Hills.) It was Downey's first work since being fired from the TV show "Ally McBeal" (1997) in April 2001.
- Downey's lawyers petitioned the State Court of Appeals in Los Angeles stating that Downey has already served enough time because the Malibu judge made errors in calculating his sentence by failing to give him credit for the several times Downey spent in lockdown rehab units and pre-sentencing confinement. Lawyers claim he should have been released in February, 2000.
- Dropped out of Santa Monica High School at age 17 and moved to New York to become an actor. First jobs in the city included bussing tables at Central Falls restaurant, working in a shoe store, and performing as "living art" at Soho's notorious underground club Area.
- He married his second wife, the Gothika (2003) producer Susan Downey at Amagansett, New York on 27th August 2005..
- Starred briefly with his first wife Deborah Falconer in the 1992 Robert Altman movie Short Cuts (1993).
- Released from jail to complete his six-month jail sentence at a drug rehabilitation center. Downey caused a stir when he was freed to work on a movie. (31 March 1998)
- Married his first wife after dating her for only 42 days.
- Jailed for 180 days for violating probation. (December 1997)
- Son Indio, with his first wife Deborah Falconer, was born on September 7th 1993.
- In a symbolic attempt to "bury" his decadent 1980's brat pack image and begin a new phase of his life and career after filming Chaplin (1992) in 1991, he (literally) buried the clothes he wore in 1987's _Less Than Zero (1987)_ in the back yard of his house.