Where It All Began
Downey Jr.’s first screen appearance, at age 5, in his father’s 1970 film Pound.
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‘Saturday Night Live’ (1985)
In 1985, at 20 years old, Downey joined SNL as part of a class of young castmembers — who were promptly replaced the next year after a low-rated season. Here, Downey with fellow SNL castmember Jon Lovitz.
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‘Less Than Zero’ (1987)
Downey played the ill-fated drug addict Julian in the movie based on the Bret Easton Ellis novel of the same name.
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‘The Pick-Up Artist’ (1987)
Downey opposite '80s teen queen Molly Ringwald in The Pick-Up Artist.
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‘Air America’ (1990)
Longtime pal Mel Gibson and Downey co-star as two Vietnam War pilots who discover their planes are being used by government agents to smuggle heroin.
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Like Father, Like Son
Robert with his father on the set of Downey Sr.’s 1990 film Too Much Sun.
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‘Chaplin’ (1992)
Downey played the famed British comedian turned American silent film star Charlie Chaplin in the 1992 Richard Attenborough-directed biopic. Downey's portrayal of Chaplin earned him a Golden Globe and Academy Award nomination for best actor.
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‘Wonder Boys’ (2000)
Downey plays an impatient editor trying to force a book out of a writer played by Michael Douglas.
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‘Ally McBeal’ (2000-01)
In the fourth season of the Fox legal dramedy, Downey played McBeal's (Calista Flockhart) love interest.
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‘The Singing Detective’ (2003)
Based on a BBC serial of the same name, Downey plays Dan Dark, a detective novelist who is hospitalized due to a painful skin disease. While in the hospital, he starts to hallucinate musical numbers and plots from his book.
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‘Gothika’ (2003)
The Halle Berry thriller where Robert met Susan and asked her out three times before she said yes. "But I wasn't a horndog," he insists.
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‘Kiss Kiss Bang Bang’ (2005)
Robert and Susan’s second film together opened — and flopped — just before the couple got married.
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Family Outing
Downey, Susan and Downey's son Indio, then 10, arrive at an NBA All-Star game in Los Angeles in 2004.
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A Long Engagement
After three months of dating, Robert was proposing marriage. Once she accepted, Susan insisted on a very long engagement that ended up lasting two years.
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The Wedding Day
The couple wed in 2005 in a Jewish ceremony at a friend's home in Amagansett, N.Y. "The house is up for sale now, if you're interested," says Downey.
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Life Before Downey
“I was very focused, driven, rigid, work-oriented,” says Susan of her life before Downey. “I didn’t care about having a family or making a home. And then I had someone who came in as a tornado, this creative, beautiful ball of insane energy and passion. And it completely opened me up.”
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‘Iron Man’ (2008)
"The longer that I've been involved with this franchise, the more I realize I did a moon shot," Downey says. “I’ve just been in this orbit. I got swept up by this really big, creative, risky thing that has now become this very large, powerful, creative entity.”
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‘Sherlock Holmes’ movies
Susan suggested Robert for the title role while producing Guy Ritchie’s RocknRolla. “This was before Iron Man took off,” says Ritchie. In addition to the 2009 original, Downey also starred in the 2011 sequel, Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows, and a third movie is in the works.
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‘Due Date’ (2010)
Downey with co-star Zach Galifianakis in the Todd Phillips-directed comedy Due Date, where he plays a neurotic father-to-be trying to get home for the birth of his child.
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‘The Avengers’ (2012)
Downey, as Tony Stark, next to Avengers co-star Chris Evans, as Captain America. Downey will be reprising his role in the sequel Avengers: Age of Ultron, due out May 2015.
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The Calming Effect
“It’s as if she has some sort of calming effect,” said The Judge director David Dobkin of Susan's effect on Downey's sometimes manic personality.
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Team Downey
“Our feeling was, if we wanted to spend time together, have a life together, then we should just go ahead and make movies together,” says Susan of the impetus for starting Team Downey, the couple’s production company.
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Baby No. 2
The couple at the Toronto International Film Festival, where Susan is pregnant with their second child. They already have a 2-year-old son, Exton.
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‘The Judge’ (2014)
Downey, flanked by director David Dobkin, left, and co-star Robert Duvall on the Milton, Mass., set of Team Downey’s first production. “It’s not some big tentpole,” says Susan. “It’s not another Sherlock. But we knew this was what we were going to make.”