Robert Downey Jr. filmography "Zodiac". Downey was cast as the role of Tony Stark / Iron Man in the 2008 Marvel Studios film "Iron Man", a role he later reprised in "The Incredible Hulk" (2008) (cameo), "Iron Man 2" (2010), "The Avengers" (2012), "Iron Man 3" (2013), "" (2015), "" (2016), "" (2017), "" (2018), and "" (2019). During that time he also starred in the films "Tropic Thunder" (2008) and "The Soloist" (2009), and played the title character in "Sherlock Holmes" (2009) and "" (2011). For his role in "Tropic Thunder", he was nominated for an Academy Award and a BAFTA for Best
Robert Downey Jr. the Brat Pack. In 1987, Downey played Julian Wells, a drug-addicted rich boy whose life rapidly spirals out of his control, in the film version of the Bret Easton Ellis novel "Less Than Zero". His performance, described by Janet Maslin in "The New York Times" as "desperately moving", was widely praised, though Downey has said that for him "the role was like the ghost of Christmas Future" since his drug habit resulted in his becoming an "exaggeration of the character" in real life. "Zero" drove Downey into films with bigger budgets and names, such as "Chances Are" (1989) with Cybill