Michael Douglas

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 Cuckoos 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 films 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 PictureMusical or Comedy and The Jewel of the Nile 1985 Douglas received critical acclaim for his portrayal of Gordon Gekko in Oliver Stones 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 20182021 for which he won a Golden Globe Award for Best ctortelevision series  musical or omedy He has portrayed Hank Pym in the Marvel Cinematic Universe beginning with AntMan 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 antiwar grantmaking foundation Ploughshares Fund and he was appointed as a United Nations Messenger of Peace in 1998 He has been married to actress Catherine ZetaJones 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