Michael Douglas
Acting
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.
Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps
as Gordon Gekko
Age 65 (now 81)
Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania
as Dr. Hank Pym
Age 78 (now 81)
Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania
as Self - Dr. Hank Pym
Age 78 (now 81)
Michael Douglas: The Prodigal Son
as Self - Actor
Age 78 (now 81) Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania
as Dr. Hank Pym
Age 78 (now 81)
Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy
as Gordon Gekko (archive footage)
Age 76 (now 81)
Basic Instinct: Sex, Death & Stone
as Self
Age 76 (now 81)
Total Excess: How Carolco Changed Hollywood
as Self
Age 76 (now 81)
Forman vs. Forman
as Self - Forman's Producer (archive footage)
Age 74 (now 81)
We Have Always Lived in the Castle
Executive Producer
Age 74 (now 81)
Still Laugh-In: The Stars Celebrate
as Self
Age 74 (now 81)
Sword-and-Sandal: The Story of the Period Epic
as Self - Actor (archive footage)
Age 74 (now 81)
Michael Douglas: Live from the TCM Classic Film Festival
as Guest
Age 73 (now 81)
Richard Attenborough: A Life in Film
as Self
Age 69 (now 81)
The Prime Ministers: The Pioneers
as Yitzhak Rabin (voice)
Age 69 (now 81)
Supermensch: The Legend of Shep Gordon
as Self
Age 68 (now 81)
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
as (archive footage)
Age 67 (now 81)
The Streets of the Invisibles
as Steve Keller (voice) (archival)
Age 67 (now 81)
Once Upon a Time… One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
as Self
Age 66 (now 81)Asylum: An Empty Nest For The Mentally Ill?
as Self
Age 66 (now 81) Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps
as Gordon Gekko
Age 65 (now 81)
Miloš Forman: What Doesn't Kill You…
as Self
Age 65 (now 81)
Making of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
as Self
Age 64 (now 81)
Ben-Hur: The Epic That Changed Cinema
as Self
Age 60 (now 81)
A Father… A Son… Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
as Self
Age 60 (now 81)
Nos Bastidores de Hollywood
as Self (archive footage)
Age 60 (now 81)
The China Syndrome: Creating a Controversy
as Self
Age 60 (now 81)
The China Syndrome: A Fusion of Talent
as Self
Age 60 (now 81)
Blonde Poison: The Making of 'Basic Instinct'
as Self (archive)
Age 57 (now 81)
Inside Traffic: The Making of 'Traffic'
as Self
Age 56 (now 81)
The World's Greatest Stunts: A Tribute to Hollywood Stuntmen
as Self
Age 43 (now 81)
Napoleon and Samantha
as Danny Arlington Williams III
Age 27 (now 81)
Il était une fois Champs-Élysées
as Self (archive footage)
Age 78 (now 81)
Marvel Studios Legends
as Dr. Hank Pym (archive footage) (uncredited)
Age 76 (now 81)
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
as Self - Guest
Age 70 (now 81)
The Late Late Show with James Corden
as Self - Guest
Age 70 (now 81) The Late Late Show with James Corden
as Self
Age 70 (now 81)
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
as Self
Age 70 (now 81)
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
as Self - Guest
Age 69 (now 81)
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
as Self
Age 60 (now 81)
Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway
as Self
Age 57 (now 81)
The Streets of San Francisco
as Steve Keller
Age 27 (now 81)
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
as Self
Age 18 (now 81)
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Michael Kirk Douglas
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