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Robert Downey Jr. (born April 4, 1965) is an American actor. Born in New York City, he is the son of director Robert Downey Sr. Having appeared in several small film roles from an early age, at 20 he joined the cast of Saturday Night Live, but only appeared there for one season. He went on to star in The Pick-up Artist in 1987. The same year, he portrayed the drug-addicted rich boy in Less Than Zero, a role which came close to his later public life. In 1992 Downey starred as Charlie Chaplin in Chaplin, a role which garnered him an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor. His other films include Only You, Natural Born Killers and lead-role as a seventeenth century doctor in adaptation of Rose Tremain's novel of the same name RestorationRestoration is a 1995 film which tells the story of a doctor on the staff of King Charles II of England, who is ordered to marry the King's mistress, but finds himself falling in love with her. It stars Robert Downey Jr. Sam Neill, David Thewlis, Polly Wa.

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Drug addiction

On June 23, 1996, Robert Downey, Jr. was arrested for driving drunkDrunk driving drink driving in the UK) or drinking and driving is the act of operating a motor vehicle after having consumed alcohol (i. ethanol) or drugs to the degree that mental and motor skills are impaired. In the US alone, 17,419 people died in 2002 and being in possession of Mexican Black Tar heroinHeroin or diamorphine ( INN) (colloquially referred to as junk, babania, horse, brown, smack, black tar, big H, lady H, dope, skag, juice, etc is an alkaloid opioid. Heroin is the 3,6- diacetyl derivative of morphine (hence diacetylmorphine and is synthes, crack, cocaine and a .357 Magnum revolver.

A few weeks later, on July 20, Downey broke into a Malibu, California home and fell asleep in a child's bed. When he was arrested for trespassing, Downey claimed his limo driver dropped him off at the wrong address.

On November 6, Malibu Municipal Judge Lawrence Mira sentenced Downey to three years probation for weapons and drugs charges. However, just over one month later on December 8, 1997, Judge Mira sentenced Downey to six months in jail for violating parole. Eighteen months later, Downey returned to Corcoran State Prison to serve a three-year sentence for a parole violation again on July 16, 1999.[1]

After being released for good behaviour, Downey was arrested again in a Palm Springs, California hotel for cocaine and Valium possession and being under the influence of a controlled substance on November 25, 2000.

On April 24, 2001, he was arrested for being under the influence of a controlled substance in Los Angeles after he was found wandering in an alley.

On November 23rd, 2004, he released his debut musical album "The Futurist" on Sony Classical.

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