A well-known Iron Man, Robert Downey Jr. is a famous actor, musician and producer with
multiple awards for his work.
Being born in a family involved into the moviemaking business, he started appearing on a big screen
at a quite young age.
To be exact he debuted in a movie Pound at just five years old.
In 1982 he was featured in Firstborn and after that he was literally piled up with dozens
of offers.
In such a way, he can be seen in such hit movies as Weird Science, Back to School, Less
Than Zero, Air America, etc.
However, he shot to worldwide fame and recognition only in 1992 having played in Chaplin and
getting an Oscar nomination for it.
Nowadays, Downey Jr. is a movie star who has been in this particular industry for a bit
over four decades and definitely knows all the secrets of this profession.
The family means a lot to him as they always support him in good and bad times and without
them, most probably he wouldn’t be a person he is today.
Robert’s father Robert Downey Sr. is a recognized figure in the industry, as he is a producer.
From the one side, he was a great dad, who gave a son an opportunity to reach success.
From the other side, it was he who gave Robert the first joint at the age of 8 and that’s
how a famous actor got used to drugs and started having problems because of it.
Despite this fact, the father has always been an aspiration to RDJ and so, both remain close.
The mother Elsie was Downey’s Sr. first wife and together they had been from 1962
till 1978.
While the husband had addiction to drugs, Elsie suffered from alcoholism.
If she hadn’t had this bad habit, she would have become an amazing actress.
During the last years of her life, she was very ill and spent most of the time at the
hospital, where she died in 2014, aged 80.
The famous star has a sister Allyson, who was also introduced to the moviemaking world
at a young age.
However, she worked as a model, a dancer and even a designer.
Currently she is happily married and has two kids.
As for the movie star’s personal life, he had been first married to a singer Deborah
Falconer since 1992 and up till 2004.
For both of them it was love at first sight, so no wonder they tied the knot officially
just a month after seeing each other for the very first time.
They became parents to a baby-boy but things started getting worse as Downey was constantly
in rehabs.
Additionally to that he fell in love with another woman, which led to a divorce.
In 2005, the Iron Man star walked Susan Nicole down to the altar and the two love birds have
been living happily ever since that time.
They met on a set of a movie in 2003 and things started slowly progressing for both of them.
However, Susan always had some doubts and refused to date until the actor got completely
sober.
Due to Nicole he became 100% free of drugs and they eventually got married after two
years of dating.
The couple has been married for 14 years already and raises two kids.
The film performer has a son Indio from the first marriage.
He was born in 1993 and followed dad’s path, having become as an actor.
Also, he was addicted to drugs for some period of time and Robert helped him a lot.
Nowadays, Indio is healthy and keeps pursuing acting career.
From the second marriage, there is a son Exton, who was delivered in 2012.
He grows up a healthy and cute boy.
There is also a daughter Avril, who became a wonderful addition in 2014.
She is a big joy in RDJ’s life and he loves her as much as the rest of the children.