Yesterday April 4th, 2021, Marvel’s most famous superhero turned 56!
Downey who played the great superhero Iron Man had his birthday yesterday.
Robert Downey Jr. was born on April 4, 1965, in Manhattan (New York). He has been on screen for 5 years with his father Robert Downey Sr. However, his relationship with his father is not very good because at the age of 6 his father pushed him to smoke marijuana. For the father, according to Downey, smoking together was the only way to show affection for his son. Smoking, however, did not help Downey in fact he was arrested several times, carrying on his career very hard. actor. But when everything seems lost for Downey he managed to overcome his addiction to drugs in 2003. In 2008 his career stands out thanks to the film Iron man thus leading him to an adventurous acting career.
On May 28, 1992 he marries the musician Deborah Falconer, with whom he has his first child, Indio, born on 7 September 1993. The couple officially divorced in 2004, after twelve years of marriage. On August 27, 2005 he married the producer Susan Levis, whom he met on the set of Gothika in 2003. The couple have a son, Exton Elias Downey, born on February 7, 2012 and a daughter, Avri Roel Downey, born on November 4, 2014.
The actor says that he got rid of drug addiction thanks to his wife, family, meditation, yoga and the practice of Wing Chun.