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