Robert Downey Jr. | Born 1965

Robert John Downey Jr.’s career has been characterized by widespread and critical success during his youth, followed by a period of personal troubles before a resurgence of movie success during his middle age. In 2008, RDJ was hailed among the world’s 100 most influential people by Time magazine, and from 2013 to 2015, he was Tinseltown’s highest-paid actor as listed by Forbes.

RDJ made his entertainment debut at the age of five, following Robert Downey Sr.’s movie Pound in 1970. He subsequently appeared with the Brat Pack in the teen movies Weird Science and Less Than Zero. In the early 2000s, Mel Gibson helped him with his insurance bond to appear back on the silver screen. From there, he gained global recognition for portraying Tony Stark/Iron Man in a total of 10 movies by the Marvel Cinematic Universe. He has also portrayed the titular character in Guy Ritchie’s Sherlock Holmes.