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Michael Douglas

Michael Douglas

Actor · b. 1944 · New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA

Michael Kirk Douglas (born September 25, 1944) is a retired 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. In July 2025, Douglas said that he was largely retired from acting, saying "I realized I had to stop [...] I did not want to be one of those people who dropped dead on the set". He added that while he was attached to one additional project and did not fully rule out future projects "if something special came up", he had no plans to work regularly again.

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  • Movie8.2

    Avengers: Endgame

    2019 · 28K votes

  • Movie7.1

    Ant-Man

    2015 · 21K votes

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    Ant-Man and the Wasp

    2018 · 14K votes

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    Basic Instinct

    1992 · 4.5K votes

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    The Game

    1997 · 7.6K votes

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    Falling Down

    1993 · 4.3K votes

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    Traffic

    2000 · 2.5K votes

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    Fatal Attraction

    1987 · 1.8K votes

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    Unlocked

    2017 · 1.2K votes

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    A Perfect Murder

    1998 · 1.6K votes

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    The Sentinel

    2006 · 935 votes

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    Wall Street

    1987 · 2.3K votes

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    Don't Say a Word

    2001 · 1.1K votes

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    You, Me and Dupree

    2006 · 1.5K votes

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    Haywire

    2011 · 1.5K votes

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    Romancing the Stone

    1984 · 2.1K votes

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    Last Vegas

    2013 · 2.3K votes

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    Ghosts of Girlfriends Past

    2009 · 2.5K votes

  • Movie6.9

    The Ghost and the Darkness

    1996 · 1.2K votes

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    Black Rain

    1989 · 1.3K votes

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    Disclosure

    1994 · 1.3K votes

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    The Kelly Clarkson Show

    2019 · 73 votes

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    Jeopardy!

    1984 · 165 votes

  • TV4.3

    The View

    1997 · 113 votes

  • TV6.9

    Saturday Night Live

    1975 · 527 votes

  • TV5.8

    The Mike Douglas Show

    1961 · 11 votes

  • TV5.3

    Jimmy Kimmel Live!

    2003 · 217 votes

  • TV7.2

    The Graham Norton Show

    2007 · 290 votes

  • TV5.6

    LIVE with Kelly and Mark

    1988 · 51 votes

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    Real Time with Bill Maher

    2003 · 248 votes

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    Golden Globe Awards

    1944 · 20 votes

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    Leute heute

    1997 · 5 votes

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    The Merv Griffin Show

    1962 · 12 votes

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    Will & Grace

    1998 · 594 votes

  • TV5.6

    The Ellen DeGeneres Show

    2003 · 179 votes

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  • TV6.8

    Champs-Elysées

    1982 · 9 votes

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    What If...?

    2021 · 4.7K votes