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Robert John Downey Jr. (born April 4, 1965), also known as RDJ, is an American actor. A son of a filmmaker, Robert Downey Sr and one of the highest-grossing actors of all time, his films as a leading actor have grossed over $14 billion worldwide. In 2008, Downey was named by Time magazine as one of the 100 most influential people in the world, and from 2013 to 2015, he was listed by Forbes as Hollywood's highest-paid actor. He is the recipient of numerous accolades, including an Academy Award, an Emmy Award, three Golden Globe Awards, two BAFTA Awards, and three Screen Actors Guild Awards. At the age of five, Downey made his acting debut in his father Robert Downey Sr.'s 1970 film Pound. He subsequently worked with the Brat Pack in the teen films Weird Science (1985) and Less than Zero (1987). Downey's portrayal of Charlie Chaplin in the 1992 biopic Chaplin earned him a BAFTA Award for Best Actor and his first Academy Award nomination. Following a stint at the Corcoran Substance Abuse Treatment Facility on drug charges, he joined the TV series Ally McBeal in 2000. He won a Golden Globe Award for the role. Downey was fired from the show in 2001 in the wake of additional drug charges. He stayed in a court-ordered drug treatment program and has maintained his sobriety since 2003. Downey made his acting comeback in the 2003 film The Singing Detective, after Mel Gibson paid his insurance bond, and went on to star in the black comedy Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (2005), the thriller Zodiac (2007) and the action comedy Tropic Thunder (2008). He also played Sherlock Holmes in Guy Ritchie's Sherlock Holmes (2009), which earned him his second Golden Globe, and in its 2011 sequel. Downey gained global recognition for starring as Iron Man in ten Marvel Cinematic Universe films, from Iron Man (2008) to Avengers: Endgame (2019). Downey received acclaim for his role in Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer (2023), winning an Academy Award, a Golden Globe, and a BAFTA Award for Best Supporting Actor for his portrayal of Lewis Strauss. He was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for playing multiple characters in the black comedy miniseries The Sympathizer (2024). He made his Broadway debut that year, playing the title role in Ayad Akhtar's McNeal. Description above from the Wikipedia article Robert Downey Jr., licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Robert Downey Jr.
Tony Stark / Iron Man
for Tony Stark / Iron Man in Marvel Studios' Iron Princess
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In the wake of the Multiverse crisis and the Age of Mutants, Tony Stark's technological legacy becomes the ultimate prize for corrupt regimes and criminal cartels. DODC bureaucrat Agent Cleary weaves legal conspiracies for Justin Hammer and Sonny Burch, while Buck Cashman and Connor Powell enforce a brutal lockdown on the streets. Refusing to let her father’s legacy serve a tyrannical order, Morgan Stark dons the "Iron Princess" armor—weaponized with an experimental Ionic Power reactor salvaged from the Wonder Man crisis. The moment she touches down, a burst of pure ionic energy levels every military barricade in sight with a shockwave rivaling Wonder Man himself. To fight back, Morgan forms the "Iron Syndicate" alongside James Rhodes, Riri Williams, Harley Keener, Frank Castle (Iron Punisher), and Tony’s trusted mechanic, Matthew "Matty" Vance. Fueled by Matty’s street savvy and Castle’s brutal justice, the cell strikes DODC arsenals in high-octane raids. Amid the chaos, Morgan finds solace in military strategist Victor Vincent Talbot, unaware of his true motives. Matty uncovers Victor's covert army ties, exposing that he is exploiting Cleary's bureaucratic turmoil to stage a military coup and impose a totalitarian regime. Caught between her suit's destructive potential and sudden betrayal, Morgan transforms the "Iron Princess" armor into a weapon of precise liberation. With Matty stabilizing the reactor and the Syndicate behind her, Morgan crushes Victor’s coup, brings down Cleary’s corrupt network, and resurrects the Stark legacy as a beacon of hope from the wreckage of a fallen system.
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