Robert Downey Jr. is favorite to win best supporting actor for playing Lewis Strauss — an epic comeback from a three-year drug sentence.
Robert Downey Jr., seen here in his April 2001 mugshot, is now the favorite to win best supporting actor at the Oscars Sunday night.Inmate P50522 did kitchen duty, bunked with “Figueroa Slim,” Timmons, “Sugar Bear,” and “Big Al” – and got his GED.
After missing another drug test, he was sentenced to three years of prison in August 1999. He served much of the next year in state prison in Corcoran, Calif.that it was “perfectly respectable, to some, to partner up with another inmate” if you were a “lifer.”Downey Jr. wed film producer Susan Levin in a star-studded ceremony in the Hamptons in August 2005 and the couple have two young children.“Sex and the City” star Sarah Jessica Parker dated Downey Jr.
Finally, he was arrested on drugs charges in April 2001 after Los Angeles police found him in an alleyway. That led to him being fired from TV hit “Ally McBeal” — but he was sent to rehab.Downey Jr. has won all the big awards for his role in “Oppenheimer” – including the best supporting actor award at the Critics Choice Awards in January.he relied on friends including his former agent, Ed Limato, who died in 2020, and Mel Gibson, who hired him on “The Singing Detective” in 2003.
The Downey source said, “I don’t think Downey will be emotional at the Oscars, I’ll tell you what was more emotional — the opening weekend going into ‘Iron Man.'”Downey Jr. calls his wife, Susan Levin, his “bedrock, touchstone and lucky stars.” The couple are seen at the SAG Awards in February.“But you’ve got to be careful when opportunity knocks, addicts don’t always embrace that. Downey has a lot of people trying to make money off him, he’s a commodity.
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