Robert Downey Jr.

Robert Downey Jr. is an Emmy and Academy Award-winning actor who has captivated audiences with a remarkable career spanning several decades. His formidable skills as an actor were first widely recognized with his portrayal of Charlie Chaplin in the 1992 biopic Chaplin, for which he received his first Academy Award nomination for Best Actor. Downey later earned critical acclaim and a second Academy Award nomination for his comedic role in Tropic Thunder. Most notably, he delivered a compelling performance as Lewis Strauss in Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer, a critically acclaimed film that became the highest-grossing R-rated biopic of all time, earning him his first Academy Award win for Best Supporting Actor.

In television, Downey's impressive body of work includes producing and starring in the HBO/A24 limited series adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Sympathizer, earning him an Emmy nomination for Best Supporting Actor for his exceptional performance in five supporting roles. Additionally, as the founder of Team Downey, his production company alongside his wife Susan, he has executive produced and contributed to multiple award-winning projects such as Netflix's Emmy-award-winning series Sweet Tooth, HBO's Emmy-nominated series Perry Mason, and Discovery+'s acclaimed docuseries The Bond. Furthermore, Downey produced and starred in Max's Daytime Emmy Award-winning unscripted original series Downey's Dream Cars, as well as Netflix's highly acclaimed documentary "Sr." which chronicles the life and career of his late father, filmmaker Robert Downey Sr.

Downey's extraordinary contributions to both television and film have earned him prestigious accolades from the Television Academy, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Screen Actors Guild, Golden Globes, British Academy of Film and Television Arts, and Critics Choice, among others.

updated 9.10.24