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Michael Douglas
Actor

Michael Douglas

25 Sep 1944Born
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New Brunswick, New Jersey, USABirthplace

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.

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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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Filmography

The 80 most recent of 82 credits.

  1. TBAWhite LiesFilm
  2. 2025Looking Through WaterFilm: William
  3. 2024FranklinSeries: Benjamin Franklin (8 episodes)
  4. 2023Ant-Man and the Wasp: QuantumaniaFilm: Dr. Hank Pym
  5. 2023DownwindFilm
  6. 2021What If...?Series: Hank Pym / Yellow Jacket (voice), Dr. Hank Pym / Ant-Man (voice) (1 episode)
  7. 2021Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & ConspiracyFilm: Gordon Gekko (archive footage)
  8. 2021Marvel Studios LegendsSeries: Dr. Hank Pym (archive footage) (uncredited) (3 episodes)
  9. 2019Green Eggs and HamSeries: Guy-Am-I (voice) (23 episodes)
  10. 2019Avengers: EndgameFilm: Hank Pym
  11. 2018The Kominsky MethodSeries: Sandy Kominsky (22 episodes)
  12. 2018Ant-Man and the WaspFilm: Dr. Hank Pym
  13. 2018Animal WorldFilm: Anderson
  14. 2018Michael Douglas: Live from the TCM Classic Film FestivalFilm: Guest
  15. 2018Hollywood: No Sex, Please!Film
  16. 2018GRAND PRIX DriverSeries: Narrator (4 episodes)
  17. 2018The Green FogFilm
  18. 2017UnlockedFilm: Eric Lasch
  19. 2016Ocean VetSeries: Narrator (voice) (11 episodes)
  20. 2015Ant-ManFilm: Dr. Hank Pym
  21. 2014Beyond the ReachFilm: Madec
  22. 2014And So It GoesFilm: Oren Little
  23. 2013Last VegasFilm: Billy Gerson
  24. 2013The Prime Ministers: The PioneersFilm: Yitzhak Rabin (voice)
  25. 2013Behind the CandelabraFilm: Liberace
  26. 2012Finding Your RootsSeries (1 episode)
  27. 2012Final Cut: Ladies and GentlemenFilm: (archive footage)
  28. 2011HaywireFilm: Alex Coblenz
  29. 2011The Streets of the InvisiblesFilm: Steve Keller (voice) (archival)
  30. 2010Wall Street: Money Never SleepsFilm: Gordon Gekko
  31. 2009Solitary ManFilm: Ben Kalmen
  32. 2009Ghosts of Girlfriends PastFilm: Uncle Wayne
  33. 2009Beyond a Reasonable DoubtFilm: Mark Hunter
  34. 2007Dinosaurs AliveFilm: Narrator
  35. 2007King of CaliforniaFilm: Charlie
  36. 2006You, Me and DupreeFilm: Mr. Thompson
  37. 2006The SentinelFilm: Pete Garrison
  38. 2003The In-LawsFilm: Steve Tobias
  39. 2003It Runs in the FamilyFilm: Alex Gromberg
  40. 2003Direct OrderFilm: Narrator
  41. 2001Don't Say a WordFilm: Dr. Nathan Conrad
  42. 2001In Search of PeaceFilm: Narrator (voice)
  43. 2001One Night at McCool'sFilm: Mr. Burmeister
  44. 2000TrafficFilm: Robert Wakefield
  45. 2000Wonder BoysFilm: Grady Tripp
  46. 1998Will & GraceSeries: Detective Gavin Hatch (1 episode)
  47. 1998A Perfect MurderFilm: Steven Taylor
  48. 1997The GameFilm: Nicholas Van Orton
  49. 1996The Ghost and the DarknessFilm: Charles Remington
  50. 1995The American PresidentFilm: Andrew Shepherd
  51. 1994DisclosureFilm: Tom Sanders
  52. 1994Time TeamSeries: Director (3 episodes)
  53. 1993Falling DownFilm: D-Fens
  54. 1992Basic InstinctFilm: Detective Nick Curran
  55. 1992Shining ThroughFilm: Ed Leland
  56. 1990Lennon: A TributeFilm: Host
  57. 1990If Dolphins Could TalkFilm: Host
  58. 1989The War of the RosesFilm: Oliver Rose
  59. 1989Black RainFilm: Nick Conklin
  60. 1988Electric Blue 29Film: (archive footage)
  61. 1987Wall StreetFilm: Gordon Gekko
  62. 1987Fatal AttractionFilm: Dan Gallagher
  63. 1985A Chorus LineFilm: Zach
  64. 1985The Jewel of the NileFilm: Jack T. Colton
  65. 1984Romancing the StoneFilm: Jack T. Colton
  66. 1983The Star ChamberFilm: Steven Hardin
  67. 1980It's My TurnFilm: Ben Lewin
  68. 1979RunningFilm: Michael Andropolis
  69. 1979The China SyndromeFilm: Richard Adams
  70. 1978ComaFilm: Dr. Mark Bellows
  71. 1977The Hollywood GreatsSeries (1 episode)
  72. 1973Hassles and HangupsFilm: Narrator
  73. 1972The Streets of San FranciscoSeries: Steve Keller, Director (119 episodes)
  74. 1972The Streets of San FranciscoFilm: Steven Keller
  75. 1972Napoleon and SamanthaFilm: Danny Arlington Williams III
  76. 1972When Michael CallsFilm: Craig
  77. 1971SummertreeFilm: Jerry
  78. 1970Adam at Six A.M.Film: Adam Gaines
  79. 1969Hail, Hero!Film: Carl Dixon
  80. 1966CBS PlayhouseSeries: Wilson Evans (1 episode)

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