Avengers : Endgame , Avengers: Infinity War and Ironman Famous MCU Movies [ Main Actor Robert Downey Jr. ] 90+ Interesting Unknown Facts from his Life Journey with the Net Worth of 300 million dollar

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 ROBERT DOWNEY Jr.

Name	Robert John Downey Jr.
Name of Profession	Actor, Producer
Birth Place	Manhattan, New York, U.S.
Date of Birth	4 April, 1965
Education	Santa Monica High School (Dropped Out)
Net Worth	$300 million
Movies	1. Short Cuts (1993) 2. Avengers : Infinity War (2018) 3. Zodiac (2007) 4. Avengers: Endgame (2019) 5. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (2005) 6. Ironman (2008) 7. The Avengers (2012) 8. Chef (2014) 9. Captain America: Civil war (2016) 10. Good Night, and Good Luck (2005)
Height	5 ft 8 in(1.74m)
Awards	1.BAFTA Awards, Best Actor (Chaplin) 2. Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Film, USA (SATURN AWARD),Best Actor (Avengers: Endgame, Ironman 3, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, and Heart and Souls) 3. BAFTA /LA Britannia Awards, Stanley Kubrick Britannia Award for Excellence in Film 4. Central Ohio Film Critics Awards, Actor of the Year (Ironman, Tropic Thunder) 5. Chicago International Film Festival, Career Achievement Award 6. Golden Globes (USA), Best Performance by an Actor in a Picture in Motion, (Sherlock Homes) 7. Golden Globes (USA), Best Performance by an Actor in a supporting role in a Series, (Ally McBeal) 8. Golden Globes (USA), Special Awards, (Short Cuts) 9. Golden Schmoes Awards, Favorite Celebrity of the Year 10. Hasty Pudding Theatricals (USA), Man of the Year
Nationality	American

Robert Downey Jr.'s Family

Spouse	Deborah Falconer (m.1992-2004div.) Susan Downey (m.2005)
Parents	Robert Downey Sr. (Father) Elsie Ann (Mother)
Children	Indio Falcon Downey  Exton Elias Downey Avri Roel Downey
Relatives	Jim Downey (Uncle) Allyson Downey (Older Sister)

Robert Downey Jr. ] 90+ Interesting Unknown Facts

1. (August 2, 2000) Released from jail on $5,000 bail. 

2. (March 31, 1998) 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.

3. (February 13, 1998) He got into fight with another inmate at the Los Angeles County Jail, where he was serving time for a probation violation, and was treated for a cut over his nose.

4. Jailed for 180 days for violating probation. [December 1997]  

5. (October 17, 1997) Probation revoked after continued drug use.

6. Remanded to a secure drug rehabilitation center. [August 1996]

7. During traffic stop for speeding, he was arrested for drunk driving, possession of heroin, and possession of an unloaded pistol in his pickup truck. This was his first reported brush with the law at age 31. He was given a suspended prison sentence of three years, and granted probation with requirements of random drug testing and drug counselling. [August 1996]

8. Names Peter O'Toole as his favorite actor.

9. Lived with Sarah Jessica Parker from 1984 to 1991.

10. Son of Robert Downey Sr. and Elsie Downey.

11. Son Indio Falconer Downey, with his first wife Deborah Falconer, was born on September 7, 1993.

12. Attended Stagedoor Manor.

13. (June 22, 1999) Sent to a rehab center at the Los Angeles County jail while waiting for an August 5 hearing.

14. His father introduced him to drugs, offering him a marijuana joint when he was age 8.

15. While drunk, he wandered into a neighbor's Malibu home that he thought was his own, and fell asleep in their child's bed. He was arrested for being under the influence of drugs, which was a third violation of his probation.

16. He took daily drug tests during the filming of Two Girls and a Guy (1997).

17. Once worked as a piece of living art in a SoHo nightclub in New York City.

18. (August 6, 1999) After Downey's three violations of probation for drug and alcohol abuse in a three-year span of time since he was spared a prison sentence and placed on probation, Malibu Judge Lawrence Mira stated that he was out of options. He was sentencing Downey to prison, he said, to save his life, because he would not take the responsibility of refraining from alcohol and drug use on his own. The Judge invoked the three years' sentence in state prison that had been suspended in 1996.

19. Downey spent two weeks in a state prison reception center at Wasco, California, for orientation. On August 25, 1999, he was transferred to a Department of Corrections prison named "SATF" (Substance Abuse Treatment Facility) for drug dependent prisoners in Corcoran California. Scheduled release date: November 2, 2000. SATF is across the street from the other Corcoran Prison, where inmates were shot to death on the exercise yard during fights in the 1990s. Downey's lawyers have approached the Malibu judge several times in the last 11 months to request Downey's release, but the Judge has refused.

20. Downey's lawyers petitioned the State Court of Appeals in Los Angeles, stating that Downey had already served enough time because the Malibu judge had made errors in calculating his sentence. He had not given credit for the several times Downey spent in lockdown rehab units and in pre-sentencing confinement. Downey's lawyers claimed that he should have been released in February 2000.

21. (November 25, 2000) 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 methamphetamines. 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.

22. (April 24, 2001) Arrested for being under the influence of a controlled substance in Los Angeles after he was found wandering in an alley. He was fired from the television series Ally McBeal (1997) by producer David E. Kelley after the arrest.

23. (March 15, 2001) Downey's attorneys advised the judge that they could not reach a plea bargain in his November 2000 drug arrest.

24. (May 24, 2001) Downey pleaded not guilty to the November 2000 drug charges. He is being held in a drug rehab center until his case is decided.

25. (July 16, 2001) Downey pleaded no contest to drug charges. The judge sentenced him to remain in rehabilitation for one year and to three years' probation.

26. His parents divorced when he was age 11.

27. Kept a great deal of the authentic vintage clothing he wore in the movie Chaplin (1992).

28. In a symbolic attempt to bury his decadent 1980s Brat Pack image and begin a new phase of his life and career after filming Chaplin (1992) in 1991, he (literally) buried the clothes that he wore in Less Than Zero (1987) in the backyard of his house.

29. As a result of his father's work (Robert Downey Sr. was an independent filmmaker), Downey the younger spent a great deal of his childhood on the move. He lived at various points in Connecticut, New York, California, London, Paris and Woodstock.

30. At the age of 10, while living in London, Robert attended the Perry House School in Chelsea and studied classical ballet.

31. Married his first wife after dating her for only 42 days.

32. 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 SohHo's notorious underground club Area.

33. Downey enjoyed working with the director of the Elton John music video - contemporary artist Sam Taylor-Johnson - so much that he suggested that they work together again on an art piece. The result was an art video called "Pietà", made in the manner of Michelangelo's famous Pietà sculpture in Rome. It was included in Sam Taylor-Johnson's exhibition "Mute" at the White Cube 2 art gallery in London, November 23 to January 12, 2002.

34. 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 Beverly Hills). This was Downey's first work since being fired from the television series Ally McBeal (1997) in April 2001.

35. Starred briefly with his first wife Deborah Falconer in the Robert Altman movie Short Cuts (1993).

36. Childhood friends with Richard Hall, better known as Moby.

37. He married his second wife, Gothika (2003) producer Susan Downey, at Amagansett, New York on August 27, 2005.

38. Was approached to play the role as Zaphod Beeblebrox in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005).

39. Is 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 Downey, but both were nominated for supporting roles.

40. Was in attendance at Chris Penn's funeral at Holy Cross Cemetery in Culver City, California.

41. Met wife Susan Downey on the set of Gothika (2003).

42. He proposed to Susan Downey on her 30th birthday.

43. Sting ("Every Breath You Take") and Billy Idol performed at his wedding to Susan Downey.

44. Before he starred as Iron Man (2008), Downey had done films with three of the actors who played Batman: with George Clooney in Good Night, and Good Luck. (2005); with Val Kilmer in Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (2005); and with Michael Keaton in Game 6 (2005).

45. On the set of A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints (2006) he took co-star Adam Scarimbolo under his wing.

46. Ranked #60 in Time magazine's 100 Most Influential People in the World (2008).

47. Downey's paternal grandfather, Robert Elias, was of Lithuanian Jewish descent, while Downey's paternal grandmother, model Betty McLoughlin, was of half Irish and half Hungarian Jewish ancestry. Downey's mother's lineage was English, Scottish, German, and Swiss-German.

48. Close friends with Anthony Michael Hall and Ramon Estevez.

49. Gave life to the same character (Tony Stark) in two movies in the same year (Iron Man (2008) and The Incredible Hulk (2008)) produced by the same studio (Marvel Studios).

50. Has worn lifts at his directors' requests in his recent leading man roles, namely Iron Man (2008) and its sequel and in Sherlock Holmes (2009), in order to enhance his height.

51. Signed on to voice "The Devil" on the animated series God, the Devil and Bob (2000). Shortly thereafter, Downey was jailed, so he was replaced by Alan Cumming.

52. In order to get over his drug addiction, he began studying Wing Chun in 2003 under Sifu Eric Oram, who served as a fight and martial arts consultant on Guy Ritchie's Sherlock Holmes (2009).

53. According to an interview he gave to Newsweek in February 2009, when Downey went to Japan for their opening of Iron Man (2008), he was detained on entry because Japanese authorities ran his passport and found it linked to some incredible criminal activity (namely Downey's multiple arrests and incarcerations on drug-related charges in the 1990s and 2000s). For failing to disclose these convictions, Downey was interrogated for six hours and was almost barred from entry into Japan. It was finally decided that he could enter Japan for the Iron Man premiere but he is never to be allowed into Japan again.

54. Godfather of his son Indio Falconer Downey is close friend Anthony Michael Hall.

55. Was roommates with Kiefer Sutherland in the early 1980s.

56. Attended Junior High School 104 in Manhattan with fellow actors Jon Cryer, Erica Gimpel and Kadeem Hardison.

57. Filmed his role in Hail Caesar (1994) in one day.

58. Lives in Venice and Malibu, California.

59. Is the first, and thus far only, actor to win a Golden Globe for portraying Sherlock Holmes.

60. Honoured at the 25th American Cinematheque Award on October 14, 2011 in Los Angeles.

61. Mentioned in a November 2010 interview with Playboy magazine that he studies Kung Fu at the L.A. Wing Chun Kung Fu Academy in West Los Angeles three times a week for three hours a session.

62. Starred in the film, Chances Are (1989), and, years later, sang Bob Seger and Martina McBride's song "Chances Are" while appearing on the television series Ally McBeal (1997).

63. Placed his hand and footprints in concrete in front of Grauman's Chinese Theater in 2010.

64. Was a huge fan of the Iron Man comics as a child.

65. Has stated on Jimmy Kimmel Live! (2003) that he is not a method actor.

66. Robert and wife Susan Downey had their first child, Exton Elias Downey, on February 7, 2012. He weighing in at 7 lbs. 5 oz. and measuring 20 inches.

67. Is good friends with Due Date (2010) and The Soloist (2009) co-star, Jamie Foxx.

68. He was offered the lead role in Oz the Great and Powerful (2013), but declined, as he was not interested.

69. He travelled around the world promoting Iron Man 3 (2013) with back-to-back visits to Seoul, South Korea; Beijing, China; Moscow, Russia; Berlin, Germany; Paris, France and London, England. [April 2013]

70. He was considered for the role of Billy "The Kid" Hicks in St. Elmo's Fire (1985), which went to Rob Lowe. Prophetically, the character has a substance abuse problems.

71. He was originally set to star in Cowboys & Aliens (2011), but had to drop out due to his commitment to Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (2011). The role went to Daniel Craig.

72. He was considered for the lead role in Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986), which went to Matthew Broderick.

73. He was considered for Tom Cruise's roles in Legend (1985) and Top Gun (1986).

74. He missed out on John Cusack's roles in Say Anything (1989) and The Grifters (1990).

75. Before he starred as Iron Man (2008), he had done films with three of the actors who played Batman: George Clooney, Val Kilmer and Michael Keaton. In Iron Man 3 (2013), he worked with Clooney's cousin, Miguel Ferrer.

76. Wife Susan Downey gave birth to baby girl, Avri Roel Downey at 3:22 a.m. on November 4, 2014.

77. Has worked with four "Doctor Watsons". In his own portrayal of Sherlock Holmes, he worked with Jude Law. In Iron Man 3 (2013), he worked with Ben Kingsley. In Captain America: Civil War (2016), he worked with Martin Freeman. In The Judge (2014), he worked with Robert Duvall.

78. During the promotion of Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015), famously walked out of an interview with Krishnan Guru-Murthy when pressed about his "dark" past because he felt it was inappropriate that children would be watching. He told Howard Stern he would leave again if that ever happened in the future.

79. He was considered for the role of Batman/Bruce Wayne in Batman (1989), which went to Michael Keaton. He would, of course, play a different superhero. 

80. He was almost cast as Duckie in Pretty in Pink (1986), when the ending had Andie getting together with Duckie. Per Molly Ringwald, this ending may have stuck if Downey won the role, because he didn't give her the "brother vibe" Jon Cryer did.

81. He was considered for the title role in Edward Scissorhands (1990), which went to Johnny Depp.

82. Good friends with: Mel Gibson, James Spader, Mark Ruffalo, Gwyneth Paltrow, Ben Stiller, Scarlett Johansson, Rob Lowe and Johnny Depp.

83. Good friends with Marvel Cinematic Universe cast: Scarlett Johansson, Elizabeth Olsen, Jeremy Renner, Chris Evans, Jon Favreau, Paul Bettany, Don Cheadle and Cobie Smulders.

84. As a five-year-old Robert uttered his very first words of dialog on film in his father Robert Downey Sr.'s Pound (1970): "Have any hair on your balls?".

85. Maintained a professional work ethic when he was a drug addict.

86. In The Nice Guys (2016) played cameo of corpse, Sid Shattuck.

87. He is a cousin of crooner Harry Connick Jr., news woman Barbara Walters and stunt pro Garner Ted Aukerman.

88. He came dead last in Rolling Stone's ranking of all 141 castmembers of Saturday Night Live (1975).

89.  Is an avid collector of exotic watches including such brands as, Breitling, Omega, Jaeger-LeCoultre, Rolex, Patek Philippe, Baume & Mercier (his grandfather's) etc.

90. He was approached for the role of Megamind in Megamind (2010), but turned it down due to scheduling conflicts. So the role was given to Will Ferrell.

91. Has played the role of Tony Stark/Iron Man a total of ten times: Iron Man (2008), The Incredible Hulk (2008) in a cameo, Iron Man 2 (2010), The Avengers (2012), Iron Man 3 (2013), Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015), Captain America: Civil War (2016), Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017) in a small role, Avengers: Infinity War (2018) and Avengers: Endgame (2019). Six of those ten films grossed over $1 billion at the worldwide box office.

92. Friends with the late Chadwick Boseman.

93. Born at 1:10 PM (EST).