This document is an assignment for a major presentation on actor Robert Downey Jr. by a student named Lokesh Tailor. It includes a profile of Downey, a chronological analysis of his life events and works, details of his national and international achievements, facts about his life and career, and sections on his filmography and periods of controversy related to drug problems from 1996-2001. It also includes quotes from Downey, a bibliography, and list of references used in compiling the presentation.
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1. AN
ASSIGNMENT FOR MAJOR
PRESENTATION ON ROBERT DOWNEY JR.
IN
(ENGLISH T & D)
BY
Lokesh Tailor
CIVIL
UID. K10133
5TH SEM
UNDER THE GUDANCE OF
MR. MOHOMMAD SHADAB
(ASST. PROF.OF ENGLISH & TRANING AND DEPARTMENT)
CAREER POINT UNIVERSITY,KOTA
RAJASTHAN(2014-15)
2. S.NO. CONTENT PAGE.NO.
1. PROFILE: Robert Downey Jr. 3
2. Chronological Analysis of life events and works 4
3. National & international achievements 8
Table of contents
4. Facts of life 9
5. Controvercy in life: Career troubles (1996–2001) 11
6. Thoughts/sayings 12
7. Bibliography 13
8. refrances 13
3. PROFILE:
Name: Robert John Downey, Junior
Birthday/Age: April 4, 1965 / 48
Birthplace: Manhattan, New York
Residence: Venice Beach and Malibu, Los Angeles, California
Height: 5’8″ / 1.73 m
Relationship Status: Married (Susan Levin, b. November 6,
1973); August 27, 2005
Children: Indio Falconer (b. September 7, 1993), Exton Elias
(b. February 7, 2012)
Pets: Cats (Monty, Dart), horses (One Sock, Little D), llamas,
goats
Parents: Robert John (née Elias) and Elsie (née Ford)
Downey; divorced 1978
Siblings: Allyson Lee Downey (b. 1963)
Hobbies: Wing Chun Kung Fu, meditation
4. FACTS OF LIFE:
• Downey Jr. made his debut as an actor at the age of five in the film Pound (1970), written and directed
by his father, Robert Downey Sr.
• In 1997, Downey was seen in The Gingerbread Man (1998).
• The actor's drug-related problems escalated from 1996 to 2001, leading to arrests,
• In May 2008, Downey achieved critical acclaim and worldwide box office success for his starring role
in Iron Man (2008).
• Downey was honoured by Time Magazine's "Time 100" in 2008, an annual list of the 100 most
influential people in the world.
• In 2005, Downey Jr. married Susan Downey, who gave birth to their son, Exton Elias Downey, on
February 7, 2012. Downey also has another son, Indio Falconer Downey, born September 7, 1993, from
his first marriage to Deborah Falconer, from whom he was officially divorced in 2004.
• .In 1992, he starred as Charlie Chaplin in Chaplin.
• The first role Downey accepted after Iron Man was the title character in Guy Ritchie's Sherlock Holmes.
5. Filmography:
Weird Science (1985)
Back to School (1986)
Less Than Zero (1987)
Chances Are (1989)
Air America (1990)
Chaplin (1992)
Heart and Souls (1993)
Short Cuts (1993)
Hail Caesar (1994)
Natural Born Killers (1994)
Richard III (1995)
One Night Stand (1997)
Two Girls and a Guy (1997)
U.S. Marshals (1998)
Friends & Lovers (1999)
Black and White (1999)
The Soloist (2009)
Sherlock Holmes (2009)
Iron Man 2 (2010)
Due Date (2010)
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (2011)
The Avengers (2012)
Iron Man 3 (2013)
6. NATIONAL & INTERNATIONAL ACHIEVEMENTS:
Year Nominated work Category Result
1994 Heart and Souls Best Actor Seturn awards
2001 Ally McBeal
Outstanding Performance by a
Male Actor in a Comedy Series
Primetime Emmy Awards
2008
Best Actor – Motion Picture
Musical or Comedy
ironman Best actor
2013 The Avengers
Best Fight (with The
Avengers cast)
Awards
2013 The Avengers Favorite Movie Actor Won
2013 The Avengers Favorite Movie Superhero Won
2014 Iron Man 3 Favorite Action Movie Actor Won
7. • From 1996 through 2001, Downey was arrested numerous times on drug-related charges
including cocaine, heroin and marijuana
• After Downey missed another required drug test in 1999, he was arrested once
more. Downey was sentenced to a three-year prison term at the California Substance
Abuse Treatment Facility and State Prison in Corcoran, California
• In April 2001, while he was on parole, a Los Angeles police officer found him wandering
barefoot in Culver City, just outside Los Angeles. He was arrested for suspicion of being
under the influence of drugs, but was released a few hours later,[43] even though tests
showed he had cocaine in his system.
8. thoughts/sayings:
•I think that we all do heroic things, but hero is not a noun, it's a verb.
•The lesson is that you can still make mistakes and be forgiven.
•Nothing's a break for me. Not even the breaks are breaks.
•It's hard to get out of the barrel. It's slippery around the edges and people are happy to see you fall
back in.
• Look, even bad years are pretty good years I think.
• Sometimes you just gotta be drop-kicked out of the nest.
• There are some parents who have really done it right and told their kid, 'You know, we
have this dough, none of this is for you. You have to get your own.'
9. Bibliography:
The book: ‘Robert downey jr.- the biography’
by Martin howden.
Refrances:
perezhilton.com
www.eonline.com
www.imdb.com
www.biography.com
en.wikipedia.org
www.google.co.in
Thank you
