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Salomea Lillith "Sally" Threadgold-Downey was born on December 18, 1980, in Manhattan, New York City, the youngest of three children. Her father, Robert Downey Sr., was an actor and filmmaker, while her mother, Anastasia Threadgold, was Lawyer. Downey's father was of half Lithuanian Jewish, one-quarter Hungarian Jewish, and one-quarter Irishdescent, while her mother was half English, half Georgian, with french ancestry. She, her brother, Robert, and sister, Allyson, grew up in Greenwich Village.
Her accolades include an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award, a Golden Globe Award, and a Primetime Emmy Award. Her films have grossed over $6.8 billion worldwide, and she appeared on the Forbes Celebrity 100 list in 2009. She was the world's highest-paid actresses in 2015.
Downey performed in several plays in high school. As a teenager, she was cast in the television series Get Real (1999–2000) and made her breakthrough by playing the lead role in the Disney comedy The Princess Diaries (2001). After starring in a string of family films, including EllaEnchanted (2004), Downey made a transition to adult roles with the 2005 drama BrokebackMountain. The comedy-drama The Devil Wears Prada (2006), in which she played an assistant to a fashion magazine editor, was her biggest commercial success to that point. She played a recovering addict in the drama Rachel Getting Married (2008), which earned her a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress.
Downey went on to star in several commercially successful films, including the comedy Get Smart (2008), the romances Bride Wars (2009), Valentine's Day (2010), and Love & Other Drugs (2010), and the fantasy film Alice in Wonderland (2010). In 2012, she starred as Catwoman in her highest-grossing film, The Dark Knight Rises, and played Fantine, a prostitute dying of tuberculosis, in the musical Les Misérables, winning the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. She has since played a scientist in the science fiction film Interstellar (2014), the owner of a fashion website in the comedy The Intern (2015), a haughty actress in the heist film Ocean's 8 (2018), a con artist in the comedy The Hustle (2019), and Rebekah Neumann in the miniseries WeCrashed (2022).
Downey has won a Primetime Emmy Award for her voice role in the sitcom The Simpsons, sung for soundtracks, appeared on stage, and hosted events. She supports several charitable causes. She is a board member of the Lollipop Theatre Network, an organization that brings films to children in hospitals, and advocates for gender equality as a UN Women goodwill ambassador. Downey is married to an actor Cillian Murphy and has two sons and a daughter with him.
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Importantdates
2003 - Married Cillian Murphy
2005 - Had twins, girl - Evangeline Cordelia and boy - Augustus Lysander
