Michael Douglas
Born September 25, 1944 (Age: 81)
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New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA
Biography
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.
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.
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Filmography
Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania
2023
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as Self - Dr. Hank Pym
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Age: 78
Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania
2023
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as Dr. Hank Pym
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Age: 78
Avengers: Endgame
2019
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as Hank Pym
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Age: 74
Sword-and-Sandal: The Story of the Period Epic
2019
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as Self - Actor (archive footage)
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Age: 74
Ant-Man and the Wasp
2018
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as Dr. Hank Pym
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Age: 73
Animal World
2018
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as Anderson
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Age: 73
Ant-Man
2015
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as Dr. Hank Pym
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Age: 70
Beyond the Reach
2014
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as Madec
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Age: 69
And So It Goes
2014
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as Oren Little
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Age: 69
Last Vegas
2013
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as Billy Gerson
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Age: 69
Behind the Candelabra
2013
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as Liberace
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Age: 68
Close Up
2012
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as Self (archive footage)
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Age: 68
Haywire
2011
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as Alex Coblenz
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Age: 67
Once Upon a Time… One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
2011
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as Self
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Age: 66
No Image
Asylum: An Empty Nest For The Mentally Ill?
2010
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as Self
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Age: 66
Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps
2010
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as Gordon Gekko
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Age: 65
Miloš Forman: What Doesn't Kill You…
2009
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as Self
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Age: 65
Solitary Man
2009
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as Ben Kalmen
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Age: 64
Ghosts of Girlfriends Past
2009
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as Uncle Wayne
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Age: 64
A Call to Arms
2009
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as Self (voice)
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Age: 64
Making of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
2009
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as Self
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Age: 64
Beyond a Reasonable Doubt
2009
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as Mark Hunter
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Age: 64
King of California
2007
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as Charlie
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Age: 62
You, Me and Dupree
2006
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as Mr. Thompson
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Age: 61
The Sentinel
2006
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as Pete Garrison
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Age: 61
Nos Bastidores de Hollywood
2005
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as Self (archive footage)
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Age: 60
The China Syndrome: Creating a Controversy
2004
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as Self
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Age: 60
The China Syndrome: A Fusion of Talent
2004
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as Self
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Age: 60
The In-Laws
2003
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as Steve Tobias
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Age: 58
Don't Say a Word
2001
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as Dr. Nathan Conrad
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Age: 57
One Night at McCool's
2001
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as Mr. Burmeister
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Age: 56
Traffic
2000
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as Robert Wakefield
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Age: 56
The Directors: Milos Forman
2000
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as Self
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Age: 55
Wonder Boys
2000
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as Grady Tripp
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Age: 55
A Perfect Murder
1998
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as Steven Taylor
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Age: 53
Completely Cuckoo
1997
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as Self
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Age: 53
The Game
1997
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as Nicholas Van Orton
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Age: 52
The Ghost and the Darkness
1996
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as Charles Remington
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Age: 52
The American President
1995
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as Andrew Shepherd
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Age: 51
Disclosure
1994
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as Tom Sanders
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Age: 50
Falling Down
1993
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as D-Fens
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Age: 48
Basic Instinct
1992
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as Detective Nick Curran
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Age: 47
Shining Through
1992
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as Ed Leland
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Age: 47
The Earth Day Special
1990
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as Self
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Age: 45
No Image
If Dolphins Could Talk
1990
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as Host
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Age: 45
The War of the Roses
1989
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as Oliver Rose
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Age: 45
Black Rain
1989
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as Nick Conklin
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Age: 44
No Image
cascadeurs de stars
1988
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as Self
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Age: 43
No Image
The World's Greatest Stunts: A Tribute to Hollywood Stuntmen
1988
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as Self
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Age: 43
Wall Street
1987
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as Gordon Gekko
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Age: 43
Fatal Attraction
1987
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as Dan Gallagher
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Age: 42
A Chorus Line
1985
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as Zach
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Age: 41
The Jewel of the Nile
1985
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as Jack T. Colton
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Age: 40
Romancing the Stone
1984
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as Jack T. Colton
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Age: 39
The Star Chamber
1983
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as Steven Hardin
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Age: 38
It's My Turn
1980
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as Ben Lewin
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Age: 36
The China Syndrome
1979
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as Richard Adams
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Age: 34
Coma
1978
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as Dr. Mark Bellows
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Age: 33
Hassles and Hangups
1973
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as Narrator
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Age: 28
The Streets of San Francisco
1972
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as Steven Keller
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Age: 27
Napoleon and Samantha
1972
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as Danny Arlington Williams III
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Age: 27
Silêncio Mortal
1972
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as Craig
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Age: 27
Hail, Hero!
1969
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as Carl Dixon
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Age: 25