Robert Downey Jr.

Robert Downey Jr. is the great second-act story of modern Hollywood, and that is precisely why I rate him above most of his box-office peers. The fourteen-billion-dollar gross is impressive, but numbers were never the point — his BAFTA-winning turn as Chaplin showed a once-in-a-generation talent long before the blockbusters. What moves me is that the comeback was built on craft, not luck: the wit, timing, and vulnerability he brought to his defining roles were earned the hard way. He turned personal ruin into the most bankable charisma in film history. Redemption rarely scales like that, and I doubt we will see it again.

Name (English)

Robert Downey Jr.

Name (Japanese)

ロバート・ダウニー・Jr

Reading

ろばーと・だうにー・Jr

Born

April 4, 1965 (age 61)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aries / Snake

Origin

Manhattan, New York, United States

Height

173 cm

Occupation

actor / television actor / film producer / singer / musician

High school

Santa Monica High School

Awards & achievements

• 2015 California Hall of Fame
• 2010 Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy
• 1993 BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role
• 1994 Golden Globe Awards
• 1993 Saturn Award for Best Actor
• 2009 Saturn Award for Best Actor
• 2014 Saturn Award for Best Actor
• 2019 Saturn Award for Best Actor

Motto

Private

• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/robertdowneyjr/
• Xhttps://x.com/RobertDowneyJr
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%AD%E3%83%90%E3%83%BC%E3%83%88%E3%83%BB%E3%83%80%E3%82%A6%E3%83%8B%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A5%E3%83%8B%E3%82%A2

Tags

• New York
• actor
• television actor
• film producer

Last updated

2026-06-11

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.