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Downey Jr would be jailed shortly after as he skipped a court-ordered drug test. Failure to attend another test in 1999 led to a three-year prison sentence for the actor, who served 15 months.
Robert John Downey Jr. was born on April 4, 1965, in Manhattan, New York City, the younger of the two children. [3] His father, Robert Downey Sr., was a filmmaker, while his mother, Elsie Ann (née Ford), was an actress who appeared in Downey Sr.'s films. [4] Downey's father was Jewish, while Downey's mother had Scottish, German, and Swiss ...
Robert Downey Jr. was unfazed by Jimmy Kimmel’s joke about his past drug use at this year’s Oscars.. The “Oppenheimer” actor won an Academy Award for his performance in the film.
Robert Downey Jr has looked back on his stint in prison in the 1990s, calling it the “worst thing that happened” to him.. The 58-year-old actor has been a Hollywood mainstay since the 1980s ...
The film features performances by Keanu Reeves, Robert Downey Jr., Woody Harrelson, and Winona Ryder. Steven Soderbergh and George Clooney are among the executive producers. A Scanner Darkly had a limited release on July 7, 2006, and a wider release on July 28 by Warner Independent Pictures .
In her 2014 book Robert Downey Jr. from Brat to Icon: Essays on the Film Career, Erin E. MacDonald said "the entire premise of the film could be read as a stand-in for drug intervention." She notes that Blake's behavior in the film "has an undeniable subtext of Downey's real life destruction and denial.
Robert Downey Jr, Jimmy Kimmel Kevin Winter/Getty Images(2) Robert Downey Jr. is finally sharing how he really felt about Jimmy Kimmel’s 2024 Oscars joke about his past substance abuse struggles ...
The son of a depressed but doting mother and a father who is serving time for tax evasion, wealthy teenager Charlie Bartlett (Anton Yelchin) — after being expelled from several private academies for various infractions — enrolls in a public school run by embittered alcoholic Principal Nathan Gardner (Robert Downey Jr.), who was formerly a history teacher.