Long before his iconic roles, the artist took his first steps in cinema alongside his father.
Today one of the biggest names in Hollywood, especially as one of Marvel’s most beloved heroes, Robert Downey Jr. is a talented actor who managed to recover after a long personal journey.
Although he just won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor for his role in Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer, the eternal Tony Stark has also stood out in numerous projects over the last two decades, such as Sherlock Holmes, Zodiac and The Soloist.
A first role at age 5
Now 59 years old, Robert Downey Jr. was just 5 years old when he first stepped onto a film set. In 1970, the little boy who would one day become Iron Man played a very small role in the wacky and fantastical Pounda film directed by his own father, Robert Downey.
In this absurd and strange comedy, where 18 dogs played by humans waited to be sacrificed in a kennel, Robert Downey Jr. played a young “puppy”, and only uttered one line that we let you discover below.
The beginning of a long career
Two years later, at the age of 7, the young actor even played a small role in one of his father’s films, the western Le Paradis du Mexicain , and again in 1980 in the teen comedy Up the Academy . But it was only after 1983 that he began to chart his own course. After several other roles and a stint at Saturday Night Livehe was noticed by critics for his impressive performance in Below Zero.
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In 1990, he received his first Oscar nomination playing Chaplin in the Richard Attenborough biopic. More than 30 years later, he won his statuette for Nolan’s work. Currently, Oppenheimer is available in the Prime Video catalog.
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