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 received 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.
After leaving The Streets of San Francisco in 1976, Douglas went on to produce films including The China Syndrome (1979) and Romancing the Stone (1984). He won the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy for Romancing the Stone, in which he also starred as the romantic lead. Douglas reprised this role in the sequel in 1985, The Jewel of the Nile, which he also produced. He appeared in the musical A Chorus Line (1985) and the psychological thriller Fatal Attraction (1987). 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).
His subsequent film roles included: Black Rain (1989); The War of the Roses (1989); Basic Instinct (1992); Falling Down (1993); The American President (1995); The Game (1997); Traffic and Wonder Boys (both 2000); Solitary Man (2009). 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 aging acting coach in the Netflix comedy series The Kominsky Method (2018–2021), for which he won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Television Series Musical or Comedy, and in the Netflix animated series Green Eggs and Ham, in which he voices Guy-Am-I.
He has portrayed Hank Pym in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, appearing in the films Ant-Man (2015), Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018), Avengers: Endgame (2019) and Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania (2023). He also voiced an alternate version of the character in the MCU animated television series What If...?.
Besides his acting career, Douglas has received notice for his humanitarian and political activism, as well as media attention for his marriage to actress Catherine Zeta-Jones.
Filmography
all 178
Movies 128
self 84
TV Shows 50
Producer 16
Voice 3
Narrator 3
Director 1
Franklin (2024)
Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania (2023)
Michael Douglas: The Prodigal Son (2023)
Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania (2023)
Downwind (2023)
Il était une fois Champs-Élysées (2022)
Polycephaly in D (2021)
What If...? (2021)
Marvel Studios Legends (2021)
Basic Instinct: Sex, Death & Stone (2020)
Total Excess: How Carolco Changed Hollywood (2020)
Ratched (2020)
Deauville et le rêve américain (2020)
Visible: Out On Television (2020)
Show Me The Picture: The Story of Jim Marshall (2020)
Green Eggs and Ham (2019)
Earthquake Bird (2019)
Capital in the Twenty-First Century (2019)
Forman vs. Forman (2019)
We Have Always Lived in the Castle (2019)
Still Laugh-In: The Stars Celebrate (2019)
It Takes a Lunatic (2019)
Avengers: Endgame (2019)
Sword-and-Sandal (2019)
The Kominsky Method (2018)
Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018)
Animal World (2018)
Michael Douglas: Live from the TCM Film Festival (2018)
GRAND PRIX Driver (2018)
Flatliners (2017)
The Untameable Kirk Douglas (2017)
Unlocked (2017)
Ocean Vet (2016)
Verhoeven Versus Verhoeven (2016)
Ken San (2016)
Ant-Man (2015)
The Late Late Show with James Corden (2015)
Saturday Night Live: 40th Anniversary Special (2015)
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors (2014)
Hollywood Banker (2014)
Beyond the Reach (2014)
Richard Attenborough: A Life in Film (2014)
And So It Goes (2014)
Late Night with Seth Meyers (2014)
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon (2014)
And the Oscar Goes To... (2014)
Last Vegas (2013)
The Prime Ministers: The Pioneers (2013)
Supermensch: The Legend of Shep Gordon (2013)
Behind the Candelabra (2013)
Close Up (2012)
Milos Forman Taking Off in America (2012)
Honest Trailers (2012)
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen (2012)
Haywire (2011)
The Streets of the Invisibles (2011)
The Jonathan Ross Show (2011)
Once Upon a Time… One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (2011)
14 Actors Acting (2010)
Asylum: An Empty Nest For The Mentally Ill? (2010)
Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (2010)
America: The Story of Us (2010)
America: The Story of Us (2010)
Tipping Point (2010)
Miloš Forman - What Doesn't Kill You… (2009)
Solitary Man (2009)
Ghosts of Girlfriends Past (2009)
The Day After Peace (2009)
A Call to Arms (2009)
Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (2009)
Fog City Mavericks (2007)
Trumbo (2007)
Dinosaurs Alive (2007)
The Graham Norton Show (2007)
King of California (2007)
Black Rain: Making The Film (2006)
You, Me and Dupree (2006)
The Sentinel (2006)
Ben-Hur: The Epic That Changed Cinema (2005)
A Father… A Son… Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2005)
Nos Bastidores de Hollywood (2005)
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson (2005)
The China Syndrome: Creating a Controversy (2004)
The China Syndrome: A Fusion of Talent (2004)
Tell Them Who You Are (2004)
The Ellen DeGeneres Show (2003)
Declaration of Independence (2003)
Celebrities Uncensored (2003)
The In-Laws (2003)
It Runs in the Family (2003)
Direct Order (2003)
Jimmy Kimmel Live! (2003)
Paul McCartney: Back in the U.S. (2002)
Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway (2002)
Don't Say a Word (2001)
Blonde Poison: The Making of 'Basic Instinct' (2001)
In Search of Peace (2001)
One Night at McCool's (2001)
Traffic (2000)
Inside Traffic: The Making of 'Traffic' (2000)
Wonder Boys (2000)
One Day in September (1999)
Beckmann (1999)
Forever Hollywood (1999)
Get Bruce! (1999)
Will & Grace (1998)
The Magic Hour (1998)
A Perfect Murder (1998)
Completely Cuckoo (1997)
The Rainmaker (1997)
The Game (1997)
The View (1997)
Leute heute (1997)
Face/Off (1997)
The Ghost and the Darkness (1996)
The American President (1995)
Disclosure (1994)
Inside the Actors Studio (1994)
Time Team (1994)
Falling Down (1993)
Made in America (1993)
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (1992)
Basic Instinct (1992)
Radio Flyer (1992)
Shining Through (1992)
Pebble Mill (1991)
Double Impact (1991)
Eyes of an Angel (1991)
Stone Cold (1991)
Flatliners (1990)
The Earth Day Special (1990)
If Dolphins Could Talk (1990)
The War of the Roses (1989)
Black Rain (1989)
LIVE with Kelly and Mark (1988)
cascadeurs de stars (1988)
The World's Greatest Stunts: A Tribute to Hollywood Stuntmen (1988)
Electric Blue 29 (1988)
Wall Street (1987)
Fatal Attraction (1987)
Starman (1986)
A Chorus Line (1985)
The Jewel of the Nile (1985)
Starman (1984)
Romancing the Stone (1984)
The Star Chamber (1983)
Champs-Elysées (1982)
Wetten, dass..? (1981)
It's My Turn (1980)
Running (1979)
The China Syndrome (1979)
Coma (1978)
The Hollywood Greats (1977)
TVTV Looks at the Oscars (1976)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
Saturday Night Live (1975)
People's Choice Awards (1975)
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche (1975)
The Streets of San Francisco (1972)
The Streets of San Francisco (1972)
Napoleon and Samantha (1972)
When Michael Calls (1972)
Summertree (1971)
Adam at Six A.M. (1970)
Hail, Hero! (1969)
CBS Playhouse (1966)
Cast a Giant Shadow (1966)
Goldene Kamera Verleihung (1966)
The F.B.I. (1965)
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1962)
The Mike Douglas Show (1961)
The Oscars (1953)
This Is Your Life (1952)
Bambi Awards (1948)
The Man-Eaters of Tsavo
As Aventuras De Nick & Vick
Blood Knot
Starman
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Known ForActing
GenderMale
Birthday1944-09-25 (79 years old)
Birth NameMichael Kirk Douglas
Birth PlaceNew Brunswick, United States of America
Height
SpouseCatherine Zeta-Jones
ChildrenCarys Zeta Douglas, Cameron Douglas, Dylan Douglas
FatherKirk Douglas
MotherDiana Douglas
SiblingsJoel Douglas, Eric Douglas, Peter Douglas
CitizenshipsUnited States of America
ResidencesLos Angeles, United States of America
Also Known AsМайкл Дуглас, 마이클 더글라스, 迈克尔·道格拉斯, Michael Kirk Douglas, 麥克道格拉斯
Awardsstar on Hollywood Walk of Fame, New Jersey Hall of Fame, Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres, Satellite Award for Best Actor in a Musical or Comedy, Theatre World Award, AFI Life Achievement Award, Academy Award for Best Actor, Academy Award for Best Picture, Golden Globe Award, Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture, Donostia Award, Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie, Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or Movie
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