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The document provides a biography of actor Robert Downey Jr. It details that he was born in Manhattan in 1965 to parents who were both actors, and that he began his career with minor roles in films directed by his father as a child. It outlines many of his notable film roles from the 1980s onward, and notes that he has starred in several highly successful Marvel Cinematic Universe films as Iron Man. The biography also discusses Downey's struggles with drug addiction early in his career and his rehabilitation.
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The document provides a biography of actor Robert Downey Jr. It details that he was born in Manhattan in 1965 to parents who were both actors, and that he began his career with minor roles in films directed by his father as a child. It outlines many of his notable film roles from the 1980s onward, and notes that he has starred in several highly successful Marvel Cinematic Universe films as Iron Man. The biography also discusses Downey's struggles with drug addiction early in his career and his rehabilitation.
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Secretary of Public

Education Sub Secretary of Higher Secondary Education

Unit of Higher Secondary Education

Industrial Technology and Services No.127

Module I: DESIGN THE LAN NETWORK ACCORDING TO THE USER'S

CONDITIONS AND REQUIREMENTS.

Student: San Vicente Ramirez Efren Emanuel

Teacher: Diaz Rodrigues Jessica Rosalinda

Subject name: English

Degree and group: 5 k”

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Project Name Biography

Mazatlán, Sinaloa October 28, 2019


Robert Downey Jr.
Robert John Downey Jr.

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Date of birth April 4, 1965 (age 54), Manhattan, New York, United States

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Couple Marisa Tomei; Susan Downey; Sarah Jessica Parker (1984-1991)

Parents: Robert Downey Mr. Elsie Ann Ford

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Active years 1970-present

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Children Indian Downey, Avri Roel Downey, Exton Elias Downey

Spouse: Susan Downey (d. 2005), Deborah Falconer (d. 1992–2004)

He has participated in films such as: Blow to the American Dream (1987), Natural

Born Killers (1994), Wonder Boys (2000), Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (2005), Fur: An

Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus (2006), Zodiac ( 2007), Iron Man (2008), The

Incredible Hulk (2008), Sherlock Holmes (2009), Iron Man 2 (2010), Sherlock

Holmes: Shadow Game (2011), The Avengers (2012), Iron Man 3 (2013 ), The

Judge (2014), Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015), Captain America: Civil War (2016)

Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017), Avengers: Infinity War (2018) and Avengers:

Endgame (2019). Downey has starred in 6 films that raised more than $ 500 million

each worldwide. Three of those movies; The Avengers, Iron Man 3 and Avengers:

Age of Ultron, earned more than one billion dollars each. Downey has topped the

Forbes list of Hollywood's highest-paid actors with an income of approximately $ 75

million between June 2012 and June 20131 and June 2015 to 2016. [Citation

needed]
Childhood and adolescence

Downey was born in Manhattan (New York), as the younger of two brothers. His

father, Robert Downey Sr., is an actor, writer, producer, director of photography

and film director; and his mother, Elsie - whose maiden name was Ford - was also

an actress and appeared in Downey movies Sr.2 His father is of Judeolituan,

Judeo-Hungarian and Irish descent, while his mother was of Scottish, German and

Swiss ancestry .3 4 5 His father was born under the name of "Robert Elias", but

changed his last name to "Downey" - after the death of his stepfather James

Downey - when he was still a minor and wanted to enlist in the army. He and his

older sister, Allyson, grew up in Greenwich Village. When his parents separated in

1976, he and his 18-month-old sister, Allison, went to live in Santa Monica

(California), with their father. He spent his childhood moving between New York,

Los Angeles and England. As a child, Downey was "surrounded by drugs." His

father, a drug addict, allowed Downey to use marijuana cigarettes at age eight;

Many years later his father said he regretted it. Downey stated that drug use

created an emotional bond between him and his father: "When my father and I

used drugs together, it was as if he tried to express his love for me in the only way

he knew." Over time, Downey began spending the night drinking alcohol and

"making thousands of calls to get drugs." During his childhood Downey had minor

roles in his father's projects. He debuted as an actor at the age of five, playing a

sick puppy in the absurd comedy Pound in 1970, and then at age seven he

appeared in the surreal Greaser's Palace (1972). At the age of ten he lived in

England and studied classical ballet, as part of a broader curriculum. In his teens
he attended the Stage door Manor performing arts training center in northern New

York State. When his parents divorced in 1978, Downey moved to California with

his father, but in 1982 he left Santa Monica High School and returned to New York

to try to be a full-time actor. He had four companions, including a young man

named Kiefer Sutherland, when he moved to Hollywood to pursue his acting

career.

Career

In 1970, with five years, he participated in the film Pound, directed by his father

and in which he worked with his sister as an extra. Between 1970 and 1980 he

continued making small appearances in the films directed by his father. It was in

1982, at seventeen, when Downey decided to drop out of high school and return to

New York to start his acting career. Like all the actors in the beginning, he had to

perform small jobs to survive, as a waiter or in a shoe store, which alternated with

small theater productions.

In 1983 he received his first Hollywood opportunity: Baby It's you. This was

followed by Weird Science, The Firstborn and Back to School. Two years later, and

thanks to those performances, he arrived at the long Saturday Night Live (SNL),

where he participated in eighteen episodes with several characters. It was because

of his performance in the show, that director James Toback showed interest in

Downey and called him for his first starring role in The Pick-Up Artist. Throughout
the 1980s he acted in such diverse films, as directed by his father Rented Lips,

1969 with Kiefer Sutherland, Just before the law with James Woods or Chances

Are co-starring with Cybil Shepherd.

In 1990, consolidated as one of the young Hollywood stars of the moment -

included in what became known as the Brat Pack -, he met Mel Gibson for Air

America. A year later he performed at Soapdish, where he shared credits witSally

Field, Kevin Kline and Whoopi Goldberg.

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