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
Oliver Rose
The War of the Roses
Detective Nick Curran
Basic Instinct
Self (voice)
A Call to Arms
Richard Adams
The China Syndrome
Mr. Burmeister
One Night at McCool's
Downwind
Mr. Thompson
You, Me and Dupree
Zach
A Chorus Line
Charles Remington
The Ghost and the Darkness
Jack T. Colton
The Jewel of the Nile
Robert Wakefield
Traffic
Steven Taylor
A Perfect Murder
Gordon Gekko
Wall Street
Nicholas Van Orton
The Game
Nick Conklin
Black Rain
Grady Tripp
Wonder Boys
Dan Gallagher
Fatal Attraction
Steve Tobias
The In-Laws
Dr. Mark Bellows
Coma
Charlie
King of California
Pete Garrison
The Sentinel
Alex Gromberg
It Runs in the Family
Ed Leland
Shining Through
Dr. Nathan Conrad
Don't Say a Word
Mark Hunter
Beyond a Reasonable Doubt
Tom Sanders
Disclosure
Uncle Wayne
Ghosts of Girlfriends Past
Andrew Shepherd
The American President
Steven Hardin
The Star Chamber
Jack T. Colton
Romancing the Stone
Self - Narrator (voice)
One Day in September
Self
The World's Greatest Stunts: A Tribute to Hollywood Stuntmen
Gordon Gekko
Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps
Narrator
Dinosaurs Alive
Self
TVTV Looks at the Oscars
Ben Kalmen
Solitary Man
Danny Arlington Williams III
Napoleon and Samantha
Self
Trumbo
D-Fens
Falling Down
Self
Get Bruce!
Self
A Father… A Son… Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
Alex Coblenz
Haywire
Self - Actor
Michael Douglas, le fils prodige
Self - Dr. Hank Pym
Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania
Craig
When Michael Calls
Self
Ben-Hur: The Epic That Changed Cinema
Jerry
Summertree
(archive footage)
Final Cut: Hölgyeim és uraim
Adam Gaines
Adam at Six A.M.
Michael Andropolis
Running
Self
Inside Traffic: The Making of 'Traffic'
Liberace
Behind the Candelabra
Billy Gerson
Last Vegas
Ben Lewin
It's My Turn
Narrator
Direct Order
Steven Keller
The Streets of San Francisco
Yitzhak Rabin (voice)
The Prime Ministers: The Pioneers
Oren Little
And So It Goes
Self
Supermensch: The Legend of Shep Gordon
Madec
Beyond the Reach
Self (archive footage)
Hollywood Banker
Self
Richard Attenborough: A Life in Film
William
Looking Through Water
Self
Asylum: An Empty Nest For The Mentally Ill?
Narrator
Hassles and Hangups
Self (archive footage)
Close Up
Self - Actor (archive footage)
Gladiateur, glaive et fantasmes
Self (archive footage)
Nos Bastidores de Hollywood
Self - Narrator (voice)
America's Burning
Dr. Hank Pym
Ant-Man
Host
If Dolphins Could Talk
Self
Declaration of Independence
Steve Keller (voice)
The Streets of the Invisibles
Self
The Earth Day Special
Self
Il était une fois... « Wall Street »
Carl Dixon
Hail, Hero!
Eric Lasch
Unlocked
Dr. Hank Pym
Ant-Man and the Wasp
Gordon Gekko (archive footage)
Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy
Self
The Day After Peace
Self
健さん
Self
Completely Cuckoo
Self
Black Rain: Making The Film
Jeep Driver (uncredited)
Cast a Giant Shadow
Anderson
动物世界
Self
Il était une fois… Vol au dessus d'un nid de coucou
Self
Miloš Forman: Co tě nezabije…
Self
Tell Them Who You Are
Self - Actor
Kirk Douglas, l'indompté
Self
Still Laugh-In: The Stars Celebrate
Self
Forever Hollywood
Self
It Takes a Lunatic
Dr. Hank Pym
Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania
(archive footage)
Electric Blue 29
Self
The China Syndrome: Creating a Controversy
Self
The China Syndrome: A Fusion of Talent
Guest
Michael Douglas: Live from the TCM Classic Film Festival
Hank Pym
Avengers: Endgame
Self - Forman's Producer (archive footage)
Forman vs. Forman
Self
Total Excess: How Carolco Changed Hollywood
Narrator (voice)
In Search of Peace
Self
Basic Instinct: Sex, Death & Stone
Self
Deauville et le rêve américain
Self
cascadeurs de stars
Self
Fog City Mavericks
Self
Making of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Self
The Directors: Milos Forman
Self
I Am Curious Johnny
Self
Rob Reiner – Scenes from a Life
Hollywood: No Sex, Please!
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
110
Gender
Male
Birthday
1944-09-25
Place of Birth
New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA
Also Known As
Michael Kirk Douglas