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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
for Tony Stark in X-Men: Mutant Genesis
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World War II: a teenaged, jewish boy called Max Eisenhardt is saved from HYDRA facilities by Captain America and his Howling Commandos. Later on Max gets recaptured by HYDRA and they find out he has some special, fascinating abilties, after some experiements they succeed in making him one of their secret weapons alongside the Winter Soldier: Magneto is born. 1987: Magneto for once and for all gets saved from HYDRA by Ant-Man when he infiltrate East Berlin. Magneto changed his name to Erik Lehnsherr and hide in Sokovia, where he conceived twins with a Sokovian woman named Iryna. Magneto saw his kids grow up from the shadows but when he saw his twins taken by HYDRA he took a risk and secretly helped the Avengers in their battle against Ultron. 2026: Erik gets reunited with his long-lost childhood friend Charles Xavier who's now very old and informs him about the Avengers. Charles decides to start a school and searches for mutants who's gene reawakend during the blip to build a new team to eventually replace the Avengers: the X-Men are born. Unfortunately, after the death of his children, Erik chooses to go down a more darker path....
