Michael Douglas
Actor, Producer, Director
September 25, 1944 (81 years)
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.
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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| 2025 | Looking Through Water · as William |
| 2024 | Yacht Rock: A Dockumentary · as Jack Colton |
| 2024 | Franklin (2024) · as Benjamin Franklin |
| 2023 | Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania · as Dr. Hank Pym |
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| 2021 | What If…? · as Dr. Hank Pym / Ant-Man (voice) |
| 2021 | Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy · as Gordon Gekko (archive Footage) |
| 2021 | Marvel Studios: Legends · as Dr. Hank Pym (archive Footage) (uncredited) |
| 2019 | Green Eggs and Ham · as Guy-Am-I (voice) |
| 2019 | Capital in the Twenty-First Century · as Gordon Gekko |
| 2019 | Avengers: Endgame · as Hank Pym |
| 2018 | The Kominsky Method · as Sandy Kominsky |
| 2018 | Generation Wealth · as Gordon Gekko |
| 2018 | Ant-Man and the Wasp · as Dr. Hank Pym |
| 2018 | Animal World · as Anderson |
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| 2018 | Grand Prix Driver · as Narrator |
| 2017 | The Green Fog · as Inspector Steve Keller |
| 2017 | Unlocked · as Eric Lasch |
| 2016 | Ocean Vet · 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 | Finding Your RootsOn Plex |
| 2012 | Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen · as (archive Footage) |
| 2011 | Haywire · as Alex CoblenzOn Plex |
| 2010 | I Am · as Cast |
| 2010 | Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps · as Gordon Gekko |
| 2009 | Solitary Man · as Ben KalmenOn Plex |
| 2009 | Beyond a Reasonable Doubt · as Mark HunterOn Plex |
| 2009 | Ghosts of Girlfriends Past · as Uncle Wayne |
| 2008 | Strictly Courtroom · as Steven Hardin |
| 2007 | King of California · as Charlie |
| 2007 | Dinosaurs Alive · as Narrator |
| 2007 | Phineas and Ferb · as Waylon |
| 2006 | You, Me and Dupree · as Mr. Thompson |
| 2006 | Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters · as Dan Gallagher |
| 2006 | The Sentinel · as Pete Garrison |
| 2005 | I Love the 90's Part Deux · as Cast |
| 2004 | Retrosexual: The '80s · 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 · as Benjamin Franklin |
| 2003 | The In-Laws · as Steve Tobias |
| 2003 | It Runs in the Family · as Alex Gromberg |
| 2002 | Liberty's Kids · as Patrick Henry |
| 2001 | Don't Say a Word · as Dr. Nathan ConradOn Plex |
| 2001 | In Search of Peace · as Narrator (voice) |
| 2001 | One Night at McCool's · as Mr. Burmeister |
| 2000 | Traffic · as Robert Wakefield |
| 2000 | Twentieth Century Fox: The Blockbuster Years · as Jack Colton |
| 2000 | Wonder Boys · as Grady Tripp |
| 1998 | Will & Grace · 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 |
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| 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 BellowsOn Plex |
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| 1972 | The Streets of San Francisco · as Steve Keller |
| 1972 | Napoleon and Samantha · as Danny Arlington Williams Iii |
| 1972 | When Michael Calls · as CraigOn Plex |
| 1971 | Summertree · as Jerry |
| 1970 | Adam at Six A.M. · as Adam Gaines |
| 1969 | Hail, Hero! · as Carl Dixon |
| 1969 | Medical Center · as Jonathan Crowley |
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| 1966 | Cast a Giant Shadow · as Jeep Driver (uncredited) |
| 1965 | The F.B.I. · as Jerry Williams |
| 2024 | America's Burning · as Executive Producer |
| 2024 | Franklin (2024) · as Executive Producer |
| 2020 | Ratched · as Executive Producer |
| 2018 | The Kominsky Method · as Executive Producer |
| 2018 | We Have Always Lived in the Castle · as Executive ProducerOn Plex |
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| 1997 | |
| 1997 | Face/Off · as Executive Producer |
| 1996 | The Ghost and the Darkness · as Executive Producer |
| 1993 | |
| 1992 | Radio Flyer · as Executive Producer |
| 1991 | Hard Promises · as Co-Producer |
| 1991 | Double Impact · as Co-Producer |
| 1991 | Eyes of an Angel · as Executive Producer |
| 1991 | Stone Cold · as Co-Producer |
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| 1989 | Courage Mountain · as Co-Producer |
| 1986 | Starman · as Executive Producer |
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| 1984 | Starman · as Executive Producer |
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| 1979 | Running · as Executive Producer |
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| 1966 | Cast a Giant Shadow · as Assistant Producer |
| 1962 | Lonely Are the Brave · as Assistant Editor |