Robert Downey Jr & Wife Susan Welcome Baby Girl

The New York Post reports the happy news that Robert Downey Jr. and his wife, Susan have welcomed a baby girl, born in L.A. this week. The baby is the second for the couple. Downey Jr. has a 21-year-old son from a previous relationship.

A request for comment from the couple was not immediately returned.

Robert Downey Jr.'s film credits include Air America, Soapdish, and Natural Born Killers. He starred as Charlie Chaplin, the title character in the 1992 film Chaplin, which earned him a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actor.

In 2000, Downey joined the cast of the TV series Ally McBeal playing Calista Flockhart's love interest. His performance was praised and he received a Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Series, Miniseries, or Television Film.

His more recent films include The Singing Detective, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, A Scanner Darkly, Gothika, Zodiac and Tropic Thunder, for which he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. In 2008, Downey played the role of Marvel superhero Tony Stark / Iron Man in the live action film Iron Man, a role he reprised in Iron Man 2, Marvel's The Avengers, and Iron Man 3; he also made a cameo appearance as the character in The Incredible Hulk. He will again reprise his role in the upcoming films Avengers: Age of Ultron, Captain America: Civil War, and the two-part Avengers: Infinity War. In 2009, he played the title character in Guy Ritchie's Sherlock Holmes and again in 2011's Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows.

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