Michael Douglas

Known for ActingBorn 1944-09-25 (age 81)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.Read more

Movies & web series

Nos Bastidores de Hollywood

If Dolphins Could Talk

Close Up

People's Choice Awards

Fog City Mavericks

Michael Douglas: The Prodigal Son

Bambi

Avengers: Endgame

Forever Hollywood

America: The Story of Us

What If...?

Green Eggs and Ham

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

The China Syndrome: Creating a Controversy

Ratched

Franklin

Forman vs. Forman

Declaration of Independence

Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen

Once Upon a Time… One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

The China Syndrome: A Fusion of Talent

The Kominsky Method

The Prime Ministers: The Pioneers

Marvel Studios Legends

Inside the Actors Studio

The Game

Black Rain: Making The Film

Falling Down

The Graham Norton Show

One Day in September

I Am Curious Johnny

Supermensch: The Legend of Shep Gordon

Ant-Man

Sword-and-Sandal: The Story of the Period Epic

Time Team

Animal World

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy

Traffic

Ant-Man and the Wasp

Wall Street

Face/Off

The Streets of San Francisco

Downwind

Lonely are the Brave

In Search of Peace

Inside Traffic: The Making of 'Traffic'

The Rainmaker