Robert Downey Jr.

Robert Downey Jr. (born April 4, 1965) is an American actor. Born in New York City, he is the son of director Robert Downey Sr Having appeared in several small film roles from an early age, at 20 he joined the cast of Saturday Night Live, but only appeared there for one season. He went on to star in The Pick-up Artist in 1987. The same year, he portrayed the drug-addicted rich boy in Less Than Zero, a role which came close to his later public life. In 1992 Downey starred as Charlie Chaplin in Chaplin, a role which garnered him an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor. His other films include Only You, Natural Born Killers and lead-role as a seventeenth century doctor in adaptation of Rose Tremain's novel of the same name Restoration.

In 2000, he became an acclaimed regular on the television series Ally McBeal, but he was fired after a drug-related arrest in April 2001. Downey has had a public battle with drug addiction throughout his adult life. He has been in and out of prison and rehab centers several times.