Michael Douglas
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
171
Gender
Male
Birthday
1944-09-25 (81 years old)
Place of Birth
New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA
Michael Douglas
Biography
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.
Known For
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
The Mike Douglas Show
The Mike Douglas Show
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Saturday Night Live
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Late Night with Seth Meyers
The Kelly Clarkson Show
Golden Globe Awards
Golden Globe Awards
Golden Globe Awards
Golden Globe Awards
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
The Graham Norton Show
The View
Real Time with Bill Maher
Leute heute
What If...?
What If...?
The Late Late Show with James Corden
The Late Late Show with James Corden
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
Will & Grace
Wetten, dass..?
The F.B.I.
Avengers: Endgame
Bambi
Champs-Elysées
The Merv Griffin Show
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
The Oscars
Disclosure
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
People's Choice Awards
People's Choice Awards
Pebble Mill
The Jonathan Ross Show
Marvel Studios Legends
Goldene Kamera
Goldene Kamera
Finding Your Roots
Ant-Man
Last Vegas
Ant-Man and the Wasp
Beckmann
The Game
Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania
The Streets of San Francisco
The War of the Roses
Unlocked
Green Eggs and Ham
Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway
This Is Your Life
Basic Instinct
The Kominsky Method
A Chorus Line
One Night at McCool's
Romancing the Stone
Haywire
Hail, Hero!
Direct Order
Get Bruce!
Falling Down
Traffic
Visible: Out on Television
King of California
Entertainment Tonight
Franklin
Running
Wall Street
And So It Goes
Summertree
The Jewel of the Nile
Fatal Attraction
You, Me and Dupree
Black Rain
Don't Say a Word
A Perfect Murder
Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps
America: The Story of Us
The Ghost and the Darkness
Forever Hollywood
Basic Instinct: Sex, Death & Stone
Hollywood Banker
CBS Playhouse
Il était une fois Champs-Élysées
The Sentinel
It's My Turn
Fog City Mavericks
The Magic Hour
GRAND PRIX Driver
The Hollywood Greats
The American President
Beyond the Reach
Coma
The China Syndrome
Ghosts of Girlfriends Past
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
Napoleon and Samantha
Dinosaurs Alive
Hollywood: No Sex, Please!
Wonder Boys
Animal World
Shining Through
Behind the Candelabra
The Star Chamber
Solitary Man
Beyond a Reasonable Doubt
The In-Laws
Looking Through Water
Forman vs. Forman
Nos Bastidores de Hollywood
Cast a Giant Shadow
Completely Cuckoo
Downwind
Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania
Inside the Actors Studio
It Runs in the Family
The Earth Day Special
Ocean Vet
Close Up
Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy
One Day in September
Ken San
Miloš Forman: What Doesn't Kill You…
The Untameable Kirk Douglas
It Takes a Lunatic
The Directors: Milos Forman
Making of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Trumbo
Declaration of Independence
Inside Traffic: The Making of 'Traffic'
Black Rain: Making The Film
America's Burning
Ben-Hur: The Epic That Changed Cinema
Electric Blue 29
Tell Them Who You Are
Once upon a time on Wall Street
The World's Greatest Stunts: A Tribute to Hollywood Stuntmen
Celebrities Uncensored
Adam at Six A.M.
Rob Reiner – Scenes from a Life
Richard Attenborough: A Life in Film
Still Laugh-In: The Stars Celebrate
The Prime Ministers: The Pioneers
Supermensch: The Legend of Shep Gordon
The China Syndrome: Creating a Controversy
The Day After Peace
A Call to Arms
Sword-and-Sandal: The Story of the Period Epic
When Michael Calls
Hassles and Hangups
The Streets of San Francisco
Total Excess: How Carolco Changed Hollywood
cascadeurs de stars
A Father… A Son… Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
TVTV Looks at the Oscars
Deauville et le rêve américain
I Am Curious Johnny
Once Upon a Time… One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
In Search of Peace
The China Syndrome: A Fusion of Talent
Michael Douglas: The Prodigal Son
Asylum: An Empty Nest For The Mentally Ill?
Michael Douglas: Live from the TCM Classic Film Festival
The Streets of the Invisibles
If Dolphins Could Talk
