Michael Douglas
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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
Credits
Avengers: Endgame (2019)
as Hank Pym
Basic Instinct (1992)
as Detective Nick Curran
Ant-Man (2015)
as Dr. Hank Pym
Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania (2023)
as Dr. Hank Pym
The Game (1997)
as Nicholas Van Orton
Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018)
as Dr. Hank Pym
Fatal Attraction (1987)
as Dan Gallagher
Falling Down (1993)
as D-Fens
Disclosure (1994)
as Tom Sanders
Romancing the Stone (1984)
as Jack T. Colton
Traffic (2000)
as Robert Wakefield
A Perfect Murder (1998)
as Steven Taylor
Wall Street (1987)
as Gordon Gekko
Behind the Candelabra (2013)
as Liberace
The Jewel of the Nile (1985)
as Jack T. Colton
Unlocked (2017)
as Eric Lasch
The War of the Roses (1989)
as Oliver Rose
Ghosts of Girlfriends Past (2009)
as Uncle Wayne
Don't Say a Word (2001)
as Dr. Nathan Conrad
Last Vegas (2013)
as Billy Gerson
The Ghost and the Darkness (1996)
as Charles Remington
Black Rain (1989)
as Nick Conklin
The Sentinel (2006)
as Pete Garrison
Haywire (2011)
as Alex Coblenz
The American President (1995)
as Andrew Shepherd
Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (2010)
as Gordon Gekko
A Chorus Line (1985)
as Zach
Coma (1978)
as Dr. Mark Bellows
You, Me and Dupree (2006)
as Mr. Thompson
Beyond the Reach (2014)
as Madec
Solitary Man (2009)
as Ben Kalmen
And So It Goes (2014)
as Oren Little
Wonder Boys (2000)
as Grady Tripp
One Night at McCool's (2001)
as Mr. Burmeister
The In-Laws (2003)
as Steve Tobias
The China Syndrome (1979)
as Richard Adams
Shining Through (1992)
as Ed Leland
Close Up (2012)
as Self (archive footage)
White Lies (—)
Actor
Animal World (2018)
as Anderson
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen (2012)
as (archive footage)
Get Bruce! (1999)
as Self
The Star Chamber (1983)
as Steven Hardin
Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (2009)
as Mark Hunter
Cast a Giant Shadow (1966)
as Jeep Driver (uncredited)
Looking Through Water (2025)
as William
King of California (2007)
as Charlie
Hollywood: No Sex, Please! (2018)
Actor
The Green Fog (2018)
Actor
Nos Bastidores de Hollywood (2005)
as Self (archive footage)
Hollywood Banker (2014)
as Self (archive footage)
Forever Hollywood (1999)
as Self
The Earth Day Special (1990)
as Self
Summertree (1971)
as Jerry
Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy (2021)
as Gordon Gekko (archive footage)
Ken San (2016)
as Self
It's My Turn (1980)
as Ben Lewin
Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania (2023)
as Self - Dr. Hank Pym
Hail, Hero! (1969)
as Carl Dixon
Trumbo (2007)
as Self
Fog City Mavericks (2007)
as Self
Declaration of Independence (2003)
as Self
It Runs in the Family (2003)
as Alex Gromberg
It Takes a Lunatic (2019)
as Self
Completely Cuckoo (1997)
as Self
Napoleon and Samantha (1972)
as Danny Arlington Williams III
Dinosaurs Alive (2007)
as Narrator
When Michael Calls (1972)
as Craig
Running (1979)
as Michael Andropolis
Richard Attenborough: A Life in Film (2014)
as Self
Sword-and-Sandal: The Story of the Period Epic (2019)
as Self - Actor (archive footage)
Basic Instinct: Sex, Death & Stone (2020)
as Self
Adam at Six A.M. (1970)
as Adam Gaines
The Untameable Kirk Douglas (2017)
as Self - Actor
Ben-Hur: The Epic That Changed Cinema (2005)
as Self
Supermensch: The Legend of Shep Gordon (2013)
as Self
Tell Them Who You Are (2004)
as Self
TVTV Looks at the Oscars (1976)
as Self
Still Laugh-In: The Stars Celebrate (2019)
as Self
Rob Reiner – Scenes from a Life (2025)
as Self
America's Burning (2024)
as Self - Narrator (voice)
A Call to Arms (2009)
as Self (voice)
Making of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (2009)
as Self
Black Rain: Making The Film (2006)
as Self
The China Syndrome: A Fusion of Talent (2004)
as Self
One Day in September (1999)
as Self - Narrator (voice)
The Streets of San Francisco (1972)
as Steven Keller
In Search of Peace (2001)
as Narrator (voice)
Inside Traffic: The Making of 'Traffic' (2000)
as Self
The Directors: Milos Forman (2000)
as Self
Once upon a time on Wall Street (2017)
as Self
Downwind (2023)
Actor
Miloš Forman: What Doesn't Kill You… (2009)
as Self
The Prime Ministers: The Pioneers (2013)
as Yitzhak Rabin (voice)
The China Syndrome: Creating a Controversy (2004)
as Self
The Day After Peace (2009)
as Self
cascadeurs de stars (1988)
as Self
Asylum: An Empty Nest For The Mentally Ill? (2010)
as Self
The World's Greatest Stunts: A Tribute to Hollywood Stuntmen (1988)
as Self
Total Excess: How Carolco Changed Hollywood (2020)
as Self
A Father… A Son… Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2005)
as Self
Forman vs. Forman (2019)
as Self - Forman's Producer (archive footage)
Once Upon a Time… One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (2011)
as Self
Blonde Poison: The Making of 'Basic Instinct' (2001)
as Self (archive)
Deauville et le rêve américain (2020)
as Self
Electric Blue 29 (1988)
as (archive footage)
Michael Douglas: The Prodigal Son (2023)
as Self - Actor
Direct Order (2003)
as Narrator
I Am Curious Johnny (2025)
as Self
Michael Douglas: Live from the TCM Classic Film Festival (2018)
as Guest
The Streets of the Invisibles (2011)
as Steve Keller (voice) (archival)
If Dolphins Could Talk (1990)
as Host
Hassles and Hangups (1973)
as Narrator