Michael Douglas
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1944-09-25 (80 years old)
Place of Birth
New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA
Michael Douglas
Biography
Michael Kirk Douglas (born September 25, 1944) is an American actor and film producer. He has received numerous accolades, including two Academy Awards, five Golden Globe Awards, a Primetime Emmy Award, the Cecil B. DeMille Award, and the AFI Life Achievement Award.
The elder son of Kirk Douglas and Diana Dill, Douglas earned his Bachelor of Arts in drama from the University of California, Santa Barbara. His early acting roles included film, stage, and television productions. Douglas first achieved prominence for his performance in the ABC police procedural television series The Streets of San Francisco, for which he received three consecutive Emmy Award nominations. In 1975, Douglas produced One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, having acquired the rights to the Ken Kesey novel from his father. The film received critical and popular acclaim and won the Academy Award for Best Picture, earning Douglas his first Oscar as one of the film's producers.
Douglas went on to produce films including The China Syndrome (1979) and Romancing the Stone (1984), for which he received the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture—Musical or Comedy, and The Jewel of the Nile (1985). Douglas received critical acclaim for his portrayal of Gordon Gekko in Oliver Stone's Wall Street (1987), for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor (a role he reprised in the sequel Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps in 2010). Other notable roles include in Fatal Attraction (1987), The War of the Roses (1989), Basic Instinct (1992), Falling Down (1993), The American President (1995), The Game (1997), Traffic (2000), and Wonder Boys (2000).
In 2013, for his portrayal of Liberace in the HBO film Behind the Candelabra, he won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie. Douglas starred as an ageing acting coach in the Netflix comedy series The Kominsky Method (2018–2021), for which he won a Golden Globe Award for Best ctor—television series musical or omedy. He has portrayed Hank Pym in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, beginning with Ant-Man (2015).
Douglas has received notice for his humanitarian and political activism. He sits on the board of the Nuclear Threat Initiative, is an honorary board member of the anti-war grant-making foundation Ploughshares Fund, and he was appointed as a United Nations Messenger of Peace in 1998. He has been married to actress Catherine Zeta-Jones since 2000.
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Known For
Acting
(2024)
America's Burning
as Self - Narrator (voice)
(2023)
Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania
as Dr. Hank Pym
(2023)
Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania
as Self - Dr. Hank Pym
(2023)
(2023)
Michael Douglas: The Prodigal Son
as Self - Actor
(2021)
Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy
as Gordon Gekko (archive footage)
(2020)
(2020)
(2020)
(2019)
Avengers: Endgame
as Hank Pym
(2019)
(2019)
Sword-and-Sandal: The Story of the Period Epic
as Self - Actor (archive footage)
(2019)
It Takes a Lunatic
as Self
(2019)
Forman vs. Forman
as Self - Forman's Producer (archive footage)
(2018)
Ant-Man and the Wasp
as Dr. Hank Pym
(2018)
Animal World
as Anderson
(2018)
(2017)
Unlocked
as Eric Lasch
(2017)
The Untameable Kirk Douglas
as Self - Actor
(2017)
(2016)
Ken San
as Self
(2015)
Ant-Man
as Dr. Hank Pym
(2014)
Beyond the Reach
as Madec
(2014)
And So It Goes
as Oren Little
(2014)
And the Oscar Goes To...
as Self (archive footage)
(2014)
Hollywood Banker
as Self (archive footage)
(2014)
(2013)
Last Vegas
as Billy Gerson
(2013)
Behind the Candelabra
as Liberace
(2013)
The Prime Ministers: The Pioneers
as Yitzhak Rabin (voice)
(2013)
(2012)
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
as (archive footage)
(2012)
Close Up
as Self (archive footage)
(2011)
Haywire
as Alex Coblenz
(2011)
(2011)
The Streets of the Invisibles
as Steve Keller (voice)
(2010)
Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps
as Gordon Gekko
(2010)
14 Actors Acting
as Self
(2010)
(2009)
Ghosts of Girlfriends Past
as Uncle Wayne
(2009)
Beyond a Reasonable Doubt
as Mark Hunter
(2009)
Solitary Man
as Ben Kalmen
(2009)
(2009)
A Call to Arms
as Self (voice)
(2009)
(2009)
The Day After Peace
as Self
(2007)
King of California
as Charlie
(2007)
Trumbo
as Self
(2007)
Fog City Mavericks
as Self
(2007)
Dinosaurs Alive
as Narrator
(2006)
The Sentinel
as Pete Garrison
(2006)
You, Me and Dupree
as Mr. Thompson
(2006)
Black Rain: Making The Film
as Self
(2005)
Nos Bastidores de Hollywood
as Self
(2005)
(2005)
(2004)
(2004)
Tell Them Who You Are
as Self
(2004)
(2003)
The In-Laws
as Steve Tobias
(2003)
It Runs in the Family
as Alex Gromberg
(2003)
Declaration of Independence
as Self
(2003)
Direct Order
as Narrator
(2001)
Don't Say a Word
as Dr. Nathan Conrad
(2001)
One Night at McCool's
as Mr. Burmeister
(2001)
In Search of Peace
as Narrator (voice)
(2000)
Traffic
as Robert Wakefield
(2000)
Wonder Boys
as Grady Tripp
(2000)
(2000)
The Directors: Milos Forman
as Self
(1999)
Get Bruce!
as Self
(1999)
One Day in September
as Self - Narrator (voice)
(1999)
Forever Hollywood
as Self
(1998)
A Perfect Murder
as Steven Taylor
(1997)
The Game
as Nicholas Van Orton
(1997)
Completely Cuckoo
as Self
(1996)
The Ghost and the Darkness
as Charles Remington
(1995)
The American President
as Andrew Shepherd
(1994)
Disclosure
as Tom Sanders
(1993)
Falling Down
as D-Fens
(1992)
Basic Instinct
as Detective Nick Curran
(1992)
Shining Through
as Ed Leland
(1990)
The Earth Day Special
as Self
(1990)
If Dolphins Could Talk
as Host
(1989)
Black Rain
as Nick Conklin
(1989)
The War of the Roses
as Oliver Rose
(1988)
Electric Blue 29
as (archive footage)
(1988)
cascadeurs de stars
as Self
(1988)
(1987)
Wall Street
as Gordon Gekko
(1987)
Fatal Attraction
as Dan Gallagher
(1985)
The Jewel of the Nile
as Jack T. Colton
(1985)
A Chorus Line
as Zach
(1984)
Romancing the Stone
as Jack T. Colton
(1983)
The Star Chamber
as Steven Hardin
(1980)
It's My Turn
as Ben Lewin
(1979)
The China Syndrome
as Richard Adams
(1979)
Running
as Michael Andropolis
(1978)
Coma
as Dr. Mark Bellows
(1976)
TVTV Looks at the Oscars
as Self
(1973)
Hassles and Hangups
as Narrator
(1972)
When Michael Calls
as Craig
(1972)
Napoleon and Samantha
as Danny Arlington Williams III
(1972)
The Streets of San Francisco
as Steven Keller
(1971)
Summertree
as Jerry
(1970)
Adam at Six A.M.
as Adam Gaines
(1969)
Hail, Hero!
as Carl Dixon
(1966)
Cast a Giant Shadow
as Jeep Driver (uncredited)
Crew
(2024)
America's Burning
Executive Producer
(2019)
We Have Always Lived in the Castle
Executive Producer
(2019)
Earthquake Bird
Thanks
(2017)
(2017)
Flatliners
Producer
(2014)
Beyond the Reach
Producer
(2006)
The Sentinel
Producer
(2003)
It Runs in the Family
Producer
(2001)
One Night at McCool's
Producer
(1997)
The Rainmaker
Producer
(1997)
Face/Off
Executive Producer
(1996)
The Ghost and the Darkness
Executive Producer
(1993)
Made in America
Producer
(1992)
Radio Flyer
Executive Producer
(1991)
Double Impact
Co-Producer
(1991)
Eyes of an Angel
Executive Producer
(1991)
Stone Cold
Co-Producer
(1990)
Flatliners
Producer
(1985)
The Jewel of the Nile
Producer
(1984)
Romancing the Stone
Producer
(1984)
Starman
Executive Producer
(1979)
The China Syndrome
Producer
(1979)
Running
Executive Producer
(1975)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Producer