Robert Downey was born on the 4th of April in New York, year 1965. His father Robert Downey Sr was a writer, actor, as well as director. His mother, Elsie Ann Downey, was also an actress and she features in most of the films that were produced by his father.
He has an older sister, Allyson Downey Jr Downey Jr brother David and sister Allyson. The family resided in an apartment in Greenwich Village. Downey Sr., at one point of time was a drug addict and he took his six-year-old son for a trial run for marijuana.
Robert Downey Sr. and Elise Ann dissolved their marriage in 1975 by which Downey was nine years of age. He then moved to California with his father after the divorce between his mother and Robert.
He subsequently transferred to Santa Monica High School at the same time as future actors Rob Lowe, Emilio Estevez, Charlie Sheen, Holly Robinson-Peete, Ramon Estevez, Renee Estevez, and Dean Cain.
After attending Santa Monica High School Downey quit high school in 1982 and returned to New York where he tried to get an acting job.
Robert Downey Jr. Net Worth
Robert Downey Jr. is an actor, producer, singer of American origin and his estimated net worth is $300 million. Robert Downey Jr., is perhaps most popular today, as the ‘Iron Man’ from the Marvel Studios. As we outline in the subsequent section below, being cast as Iron Man brought Robert a lot of wealth he was paid an opulent amount and became one of the best-paid Hollywood actors of all time.
Career
Downey acted in theatre before getting a role as one for the new upcoming members hired for ‘Saturday Night Live’ in the mid-1980s along with Joan Cusack, Nora Dunn, Anthony Michael Hall, Jon Lovitz, Dennis Miller, Randy Quaid, Terry Sweeney and Danita Vance.
The season of ‘SNL’ in 1985-1986 was very poor, and all the new cast members, who were hired in 1985, were dismissed. Downey’s first significant films were Hill which he featured in 1985 in John Hughes’ Weird Science and Julian Wells, a drug-addicted rich kid in 1987 Less Than Zero.
In 1992, he acted in the movie Chaplin directed by Jerzy Skolimowski as Charlie Chaplin He received the award of the best actor of Europe and was nominated for the Best Actor Oscar.
Drug Issues
Problems in Downey’s life reached another level when he could no longer control the use of drugs. In particular, during the period from 1996 to 2001, he was detained several times for violation of the articles stipulating drug use.
In different occasions, he was caught with cocaine, heroin and marijuana. He went into many drug rehabilitation centers but he went back to drugs.
Downey was arrested in April 1996 when he was driving sixty miles an hour in a forty-mile zone on Sunset Boulevard. That’s why it was possible to find heroin, cocaine and an unloaded pistol 357 Magnum handgun together with him.
