Michael Douglas

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Known Credits

169

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 Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

  • The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

    The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

  • Late Night with Seth Meyers

    Late Night with Seth Meyers

  • The Kelly Clarkson Show

    The Kelly Clarkson Show

  • Saturday Night Live

    Saturday Night Live

  • The Graham Norton Show

    The Graham Norton Show

  • The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

    The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

  • The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson

    The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson

  • The Mike Douglas Show

    The Mike Douglas Show

  • The Mike Douglas Show

    The Mike Douglas Show

  • Real Time with Bill Maher

    Real Time with Bill Maher

  • Will & Grace

    Will & Grace

  • The Late Late Show with James Corden

    The Late Late Show with James Corden

  • The Late Late Show with James Corden

    The Late Late Show with James Corden

  • Bambi

    Bambi

  • Golden Globe Awards

    Golden Globe Awards

  • Golden Globe Awards

    Golden Globe Awards

  • Golden Globe Awards

    Golden Globe Awards

  • Golden Globe Awards

    Golden Globe Awards

  • Leute heute

    Leute heute

  • Tony Awards

    Tony Awards

  • The View

    The View

  • Jimmy Kimmel Live!

    Jimmy Kimmel Live!

  • LIVE with Kelly and Mark

    LIVE with Kelly and Mark

  • LIVE with Kelly and Mark

    LIVE with Kelly and Mark

  • What If...?

    What If...?

  • What If...?

    What If...?

  • Avengers: Endgame

    Avengers: Endgame

  • The Merv Griffin Show

    The Merv Griffin Show

  • Champs-Elysées

    Champs-Elysées

  • Variety Studio: Actors on Actors

    Variety Studio: Actors on Actors

  • The Ellen DeGeneres Show

    The Ellen DeGeneres Show

  • The Tonight Show with Jay Leno

    The Tonight Show with Jay Leno

  • Beckmann

    Beckmann

  • Wetten, dass..?

    Wetten, dass..?

  • Pebble Mill

    Pebble Mill

  • Les Rendez-vous du dimanche

    Les Rendez-vous du dimanche

  • Finding Your Roots

    Finding Your Roots

  • The F.B.I.

    The F.B.I.

  • Marvel Studios Legends

    Marvel Studios Legends

  • Ant-Man

    Ant-Man

  • The Oscars

    The Oscars

  • This Is Your Life

    This Is Your Life

  • Goldene Kamera

    Goldene Kamera

  • Goldene Kamera

    Goldene Kamera

  • The Jonathan Ross Show

    The Jonathan Ross Show

  • Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway

    Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway

  • Ant-Man and the Wasp

    Ant-Man and the Wasp

  • Green Eggs and Ham

    Green Eggs and Ham

  • The Streets of San Francisco

    The Streets of San Francisco

  • Wall Street

    Wall Street

  • Basic Instinct

    Basic Instinct

  • Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania

    Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania

  • The Game

    The Game

  • The Kominsky Method

    The Kominsky Method

  • Entertainment Tonight

    Entertainment Tonight

  • Beyond the Reach

    Beyond the Reach

  • Romancing the Stone

    Romancing the Stone

  • Disclosure

    Disclosure

  • Coma

    Coma

  • Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps

    Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps

  • Franklin

    Franklin

  • Last Vegas

    Last Vegas

  • Haywire

    Haywire

  • Traffic

    Traffic

  • The War of the Roses

    The War of the Roses

  • Ghosts of Girlfriends Past

    Ghosts of Girlfriends Past

  • The Jewel of the Nile

    The Jewel of the Nile

  • The Ghost and the Darkness

    The Ghost and the Darkness

  • Shining Through

    Shining Through

  • Unlocked

    Unlocked

  • Don't Say a Word

    Don't Say a Word

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

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

  • Hail, Hero!

    Hail, Hero!

  • A Perfect Murder

    A Perfect Murder

  • People's Choice Awards

    People's Choice Awards

  • Fatal Attraction

    Fatal Attraction

  • And So It Goes

    And So It Goes

  • Animal World

    Animal World

  • Falling Down

    Falling Down

  • Solitary Man

    Solitary Man

  • Running

    Running

  • The American President

    The American President

  • CBS Playhouse

    CBS Playhouse

  • Visible: Out on Television

    Visible: Out on Television

  • Direct Order

    Direct Order

  • It Runs in the Family

    It Runs in the Family

  • The Magic Hour

    The Magic Hour

  • The In-Laws

    The In-Laws

  • Summertree

    Summertree

  • America: The Story of Us

    America: The Story of Us

  • Black Rain

    Black Rain

  • Beyond a Reasonable Doubt

    Beyond a Reasonable Doubt

  • A Chorus Line

    A Chorus Line

  • Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen

    Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen

  • Il était une fois Champs-Élysées

    Il était une fois Champs-Élysées

  • Cast a Giant Shadow

    Cast a Giant Shadow

  • It Takes a Lunatic

    It Takes a Lunatic

  • The Sentinel

    The Sentinel

  • Looking Through Water

    Looking Through Water

  • Get Bruce!

    Get Bruce!

  • Electric Blue 29

    Electric Blue 29

  • Miloš Forman: What Doesn't Kill You…

    Miloš Forman: What Doesn't Kill You…

  • You, Me and Dupree

    You, Me and Dupree

  • Deauville et le rêve américain

    Deauville et le rêve américain

  • Hollywood Banker

    Hollywood Banker

  • Richard Attenborough: A Life in Film

    Richard Attenborough: A Life in Film

  • Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy

    Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy

  • Still Laugh-In: The Stars Celebrate

    Still Laugh-In: The Stars Celebrate

  • The Hollywood Greats

    The Hollywood Greats

  • Black Rain: Making The Film

    Black Rain: Making The Film

  • One Night at McCool's

    One Night at McCool's

  • One Day in September

    One Day in September

  • Adam at Six A.M.

    Adam at Six A.M.

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

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

  • The China Syndrome

    The China Syndrome

  • Ken San

    Ken San

  • King of California

    King of California

  • The Star Chamber

    The Star Chamber

  • Wonder Boys

    Wonder Boys

  • Napoleon and Samantha

    Napoleon and Samantha

  • Total Excess: How Carolco Changed Hollywood

    Total Excess: How Carolco Changed Hollywood

  • A Call to Arms

    A Call to Arms

  • Forman vs. Forman

    Forman vs. Forman

  • It's My Turn

    It's My Turn

  • TVTV Looks at the Oscars

    TVTV Looks at the Oscars

  • Behind the Candelabra

    Behind the Candelabra

  • Making of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

    Making of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

  • A Father… A Son… Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

    A Father… A Son… Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

  • Forever Hollywood

    Forever Hollywood

  • Fog City Mavericks

    Fog City Mavericks

  • Dinosaurs Alive

    Dinosaurs Alive

  • Inside Traffic: The Making of 'Traffic'

    Inside Traffic: The Making of 'Traffic'

  • Tell Them Who You Are

    Tell Them Who You Are

  • Downwind

    Downwind

  • Basic Instinct: Sex, Death & Stone

    Basic Instinct: Sex, Death & Stone

  • Ben-Hur: The Epic That Changed Cinema

    Ben-Hur: The Epic That Changed Cinema

  • GRAND PRIX Driver

    GRAND PRIX Driver

  • Trumbo

    Trumbo

  • Nos Bastidores de Hollywood

    Nos Bastidores de Hollywood

  • The Earth Day Special

    The Earth Day Special

  • The Day After Peace

    The Day After Peace

  • The World's Greatest Stunts: A Tribute to Hollywood Stuntmen

    The World's Greatest Stunts: A Tribute to Hollywood Stuntmen

  • Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania

    Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania

  • Supermensch: The Legend of Shep Gordon

    Supermensch: The Legend of Shep Gordon

  • When Michael Calls

    When Michael Calls

  • Inside the Actors Studio

    Inside the Actors Studio

  • Close Up

    Close Up

  • The Untameable Kirk Douglas

    The Untameable Kirk Douglas

  • Completely Cuckoo

    Completely Cuckoo

  • Declaration of Independence

    Declaration of Independence

  • Ocean Vet

    Ocean Vet

  • America's Burning

    America's Burning

  • Hassles and Hangups

    Hassles and Hangups

  • Celebrities Uncensored

    Celebrities Uncensored

  • In Search of Peace

    In Search of Peace

  • Asylum: An Empty Nest For The Mentally Ill?

    Asylum: An Empty Nest For The Mentally Ill?

  • Once upon a time on Wall Street

    Once upon a time on Wall Street

  • The Streets of the Invisibles

    The Streets of the Invisibles

  • The China Syndrome: Creating a Controversy

    The China Syndrome: Creating a Controversy

  • The Prime Ministers: The Pioneers

    The Prime Ministers: The Pioneers

  • The Directors: Milos Forman

    The Directors: Milos Forman

  • I Am Curious Johnny

    I Am Curious Johnny

  • Michael Douglas: The Prodigal Son

    Michael Douglas: The Prodigal Son

  • cascadeurs de stars

    cascadeurs de stars

  • The China Syndrome: A Fusion of Talent

    The China Syndrome: A Fusion of Talent

  • If Dolphins Could Talk

    If Dolphins Could Talk

  • The Streets of San Francisco

    The Streets of San Francisco

  • Michael Douglas: Live from the TCM Classic Film Festival

    Michael Douglas: Live from the TCM Classic Film Festival