ROBERT DOWNEY, JR. (Jerry Renfro) is one of Hollywood's leading young actors whose career includes such memorable portrayals as the title role of Chaplin, which earned the actor an Academy Award ® nomination and the British Academy Award for Best Actor.

In 1970 Downey made his screen debut in Pound, directed by his father Robert Downey Sr. His impressive career took flight in the 1980's when he starred in such films as Weird Science, The Pick-Up Artist, Less Than Zero, Johnny Be Good, 1969, True Believer and Chances Are.

Downey's talent and versatility were further demonstrated when he appeared as an aspiring make-up artist in Short Cuts for renowned filmmaker Robert Altman with whom he later reteamed on The Gingerbread Man. In 1994 he starred as a tabloid TV journalist who exploits a murderous couple's killing spree in Oliver Stone's controversial Natural Born Killers. Michael Hoffman's period drama Restoration followed in 1995 and, later that year, Downey appeared in Richard III opposite Sir Ian McKellan.

Most recently, Downey starred opposite Tommy Lee Jones and Wesley Snipes in U.S Marshals, in the critically-acclaimed Two Girls and a Guy and in Dreamworks' In Dreams, directed by Neil Jordan, and starring Annette Bening and Aidan Quinn.

Other film credits include Air America, Soapdish, Heart and Souls, The Last Party, Only You , Home for the Holidays, Hugo Pool, directed by his father, and Mike Figgis' One Night Stand.