#Robert downy jr series#
After being released from the California Substance Abuse Treatment Facility and State Prison in 2000, Downey joined the cast of the hit television series Ally McBeal, playing the new Love Interest of Calista Flockhart's title character. In 1999, he was sentenced to 3 years in prison, although only served a year. In the late '90s, Downey was frequently arrested on drug-related charges and went through several drug treatment programs, but had difficulty staying sober. These higher-profile roles eventually led to his being cast as Charlie Chaplin in the 1992 biopic Chaplin, for which he gained an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor. After Zero, Downey started landing roles in bigger films, such as Air America and Soapdish. Less Than Zero is particularly notable, not only because it was the first time Downey's acting would be acknowledged by critics, but also because the role pushed Downey's already-existing drug habit one step further.
He was cast to read one of the letters in the 1987 film Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam before his rise to fame.
Jim Downey has since left the show in 2013) and had roles in a series of coming-of-age films associated with the Brat Pack.
#Robert downy jr tv#
The son of film director Robert Downey Sr., Downey made his screen debut at the age of 5 when he appeared in one of his father's films, Pound (1970), and has worked consistently in film and television ever since.ĭuring the 1980s, he was a cast member on the NBC sketch show Saturday Night Live note His uncle, Jim Downey, was a cast member on the show in the 1979-1980 season and, next to Rob Smigel (the voice of Triumph, the Insult Comic Dog and the man behind the TV Funhouse cartoons that aired on the short-lived sketch series The Dana Carvey Show, Saturday Night Live, and the short-lived Subverted Kids' Show, TV Funhouse) and Lorne Michaels himself, is the longest-running writer this show has ever had.
(born Apin New York City, New York) is an American actor and producer.
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