Robert Downey Jr - most highly paid actor in Hollywood

 

For the best part of a decade he was Hollywood’s most notorious cautionary tale.

After being tipped for stardom, Robert Downey Jr spent the late 1990s and early 2000s addicted to drugs and reduced to earning eight cents an hour scrubbing pizza pans in the kitchen of the LA County jail during regular stints in prison.

So it is all the more remarkable that the 50-year-old was on Wednesday August 05,2015  named the best-paid male actor for the third year running, raking in £51million.

Forbes, which compiled the list, said Downey Jr has managed to earn the ‘stratospheric’ amount thanks to his starring role in the Iron Man films, what has become the biggest movie franchise in the world.