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Michael Douglas

Actor, Producer, Director, Additional CreditsBorn September 25, 1944 (80 years)
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 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.

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Movies & Shows on Plex

  • Haywire
  • Don't Say a Word
  • Made in America
  • Solitary Man
  • And So It Goes
  • We Have Always Lived in the Castle
  • Finding Your Roots
  • When Michael Calls

Known For

  • One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
  • The Game
  • Ant-Man
  • Basic Instinct
  • Traffic
  • Falling Down
  • Ant-Man and the Wasp
  • Wall Street
  • Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps
  • Fatal Attraction
  • Romancing the Stone
  • The Kominsky Method
  • A Perfect Murder
  • Wonder Boys
  • Behind the Candelabra
  • Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania
  • The American President
  • The War of the Roses
  • The Ghost and the Darkness
  • The Jewel of the Nile
  • Black Rain
  • Don't Say a Word
  • Disclosure
  • The Sentinel

Featured Videos

    Filmography

    2024
    Yacht Rock: A Dockumentary · as Jack Colton
    2024
    Franklin (2024) (TV Series) · as Benjamin Franklin
    2023
    2023
    2021
    What If…? (TV Series) · as Dr. Hank Pym / Ant-Man (voice)
    2021
    Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy · as Gordon Gekko (archive Footage)
    2021
    Marvel Studios: Legends (TV Series) · as Dr. Hank Pym (archive Footage) (uncredited)
    2019
    Green Eggs and Ham (TV Series) · as Guy-Am-I (voice)
    2019
    2019
    Avengers: Endgame · as Hank Pym
    2018
    The Kominsky Method (TV Series) · as Sandy Kominsky
    2018
    Generation Wealth · as Gordon Gekko
    2018
    Ant-Man and the Wasp · as Dr. Hank Pym
    2018
    Animal World · as Anderson
    2018
    Hollywood, No Sex Please! · as Detective Nick Curran
    2018
    Grand Prix Driver (TV Series) · as Narrator
    2017
    The Green Fog · as Inspector Steve Keller
    2017
    Unlocked · as Eric Lasch
    2016
    Ocean Vet (TV Series) · as Narrator (voice)
    2015
    Ant-Man · as Dr. Hank Pym
    2014
    Beyond the Reach · as Madec
    2014
    And So It Goes · as Oren Little
    2013
    Last Vegas · as Billy Gerson
    2013
    The Prime Ministers: The Pioneers · as Yitzhak Rabin (voice)
    2013
    Behind the Candelabra · as Liberace
    2012
    2012
    Honest Trailers (TV Series) · as Hank Pym (archive Footage)
    2012
    Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen · as (archive Footage)
    2011
    Haywire · as Alex Coblenz
    2011
    2010
    I Am · as Cast
    2010
    2009
    Solitary Man · as Ben Kalmen
    2009
    Beyond a Reasonable Doubt · as Mark Hunter
    2009
    Ghosts of Girlfriends Past · as Uncle Wayne
    2009
    The Lion and the Mouse · as Narrator
    2008
    Strictly Courtroom · as Steven Hardin
    2007
    King of California · as Charlie
    2007
    Dinosaurs Alive · as Narrator
    2007
    Phineas and Ferb (TV Series) · as Waylon
    2006
    You, Me and Dupree · as Mr. Thompson
    2006
    2006
    The Sentinel · as Pete Garrison
    2005
    I Love the 90's Part Deux (TV Series) · as Cast
    2004
    Retrosexual: The '80s (TV Series) · as Cast
    2004
    The Beautiful Country · as Gordon Gekko
    2004
    Die Geschichte des erotischen Films · as Detective Nick Curran
    2003
    Freedom: A History of Us (TV Series) · as Benjamin Franklin
    2003
    The In-Laws · as Steve Tobias
    2003
    It Runs in the Family · as Alex Gromberg
    2003
    Jimmy Kimmel Live! (TV Series)
    2002
    Liberty's Kids (TV Series) · as Patrick Henry
    2001
    Don't Say a Word · as Dr. Nathan Conrad
    2001
    In Search of Peace · as Narrator (voice)
    2001
    One Night at McCool's · as Mr. Burmeister
    2000
    Traffic · as Robert Wakefield
    2000
    2000
    Wonder Boys · as Grady Tripp
    1998
    Will & Grace (TV Series) · as Detective Gavin Hatch
    1998
    A Perfect Murder · as Steven Taylor
    1997
    The Game · as Nicholas Van Orton
    1996
    The Ghost and the Darkness · as Charles Remington
    1995
    The American President · as Andrew Shepherd
    1994
    Disclosure · as Tom Sanders
    1993
    Falling Down · as D-Fens
    1992
    1992
    Basic Instinct · as Detective Nick Curran
    1992
    Shining Through · as Ed Leland
    1989
    The War of the Roses · as Oliver Rose
    1989
    Black Rain · as Nick Conklin
    1987
    Wall Street · as Gordon Gekko
    1987
    Fatal Attraction · as Dan Gallagher
    1985
    A Chorus Line · as Zach
    1985
    The Jewel of the Nile · as Jack T. Colton
    1984
    Romancing the Stone · as Jack T. Colton
    1983
    The Star Chamber · as Steven Hardin
    1980
    It's My Turn · as Ben Lewin
    1979
    Running · as Michael Andropolis
    1979
    The China Syndrome · as Richard Adams
    1978
    Coma · as Dr. Mark Bellows
    1977
    1972
    The Streets of San Francisco (TV Series) · as Steve Keller
    1972
    Napoleon and Samantha · as Danny Arlington Williams Iii
    1972
    1972
    1971
    Summertree · as Jerry
    1970
    Adam at Six A.M. · as Adam Gaines
    1969
    Hail, Hero! · as Carl Dixon
    1969
    Medical Center (TV Series) · as Jonathan Crowley
    1967
    CBS Playhouse (TV Series)
    1966
    Cast a Giant Shadow · as Jeep Driver (uncredited)
    1965
    The F.B.I. (TV Series) · as Jerry Williams

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