Michael Douglas

Michael Kirk Douglas born September 25 1944 is an 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 received 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 After leaving The Streets of San Francisco in 1976 Douglas went on to produce films including The China Syndrome 1979 and Romancing the Stone 1984 He won the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture Musical or Comedy for Romancing the Stone in which he also starred as the romantic lead Douglas reprised this role in the sequel in 1985 The Jewel of the Nile which he also produced He appeared in the musical A Chorus Line 1985 and the psychological thriller Fatal Attraction 1987 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 His subsequent film roles included Black Rain 1989 The War of the Roses 1989 Basic Instinct 1992 Falling Down 1993 The American President 1995 The Game 1997 Traffic and Wonder Boys both 2000 Solitary Man 2009 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 aging acting coach in the Netflix comedy series The Kominsky Method 20182021 for which he won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor Television Series Musical or Comedy and in the Netflix animated series Green Eggs and Ham in which he voices GuyAmI He has portrayed Hank Pym in the Marvel Cinematic Universe appearing in the films AntMan 2015 AntMan and the Wasp 2018 Avengers Endgame 2019 and AntMan and the Wasp Quantumania 2023 He also voiced an alternate version of the character in the MCU animated television series What If Besides his acting career Douglas has received notice for his humanitarian and political activism as well as media attention for his marriage to actress Catherine ZetaJones