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Robert Downey Jr.

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Robert Downey, Jr. is an American actor born in 1965 in New York City. Coming from a showbiz family, he started acting on-screen at an early age. He gained attention for his performance in such films as Less than Zero, Natural Born Killers and Chaplin, in which he earned an Oscar nomination. He received a Golden Globe for his role in the hit television series, Ally McBeal. After suffering from substance abuse for years, he managed to redeem his career by starring in several critically-acclaimed and box-office hits including Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, Sherlock Holmes, Tropic Thunder, and the Iron Man series.

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22 Apr, 2015

Interview walkout

Avengers: Age of UltronKrishnan Guru-MurthyInterview0 Comments

Downey walks out of an promotional interview about Avengers: Age of Ultron with Channel 4 News, when Guru-Murthy asks about his past problems with drugs and alcohol.

Are we promoting a movie?…I’m sorry, I really don’t … What are we doing?

Robert Downey Jr full interview: star walks out when asked about past

1 Oct, 2014

Vanity Fair cover

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robert-downey-jr-vanity-fairDowney Jr. appears on the cover of the October 2014 issue of Vanity Fair magazine. He talks about his son’s drug problem and playing Iron Man.

I’ve gone from being convinced that I am the sole integer in the approbation of a phenomenon to realizing that I was the lead in the first of a series of movies that created a chain reaction that, if everything didn’t fire the way it was supposed to, there’s no operator, no anything. And you go, O.K., life is doing something here that included me but did not require me. But, yes, that role means a lot. Marvel is kind of like this sacred brotherhood.