Michael Douglas
Acting
🎂 1944-09-25
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.
Cast credits(168)
Self
2014
Self
2007
Self
2003
Self
1962
Self
2014
Self
2019
Self - Host
1975
Self
1961
Self - Co-Host
1961
Self
2015
Self - Presenter
1956
Detective Gavin Hatch
1998
Hank Pym / Yellow Jacket (voice)
2021
Dr. Hank Pym / Ant-Man (voice)
2021
Hank Pym
2019
Self - Presenter
1944
Self - Nominee
1944
Self - Audience Member
1944
Self - Cecil B. DeMille Award
1944
Self
2015
Self - Guest
2015
Self
2005
Self
2014
Self
1997
Self
1997
Jerry Williams
1965
Self
1975
Self
2003
Self
1982
1992
Self
1988
Self - Guest
1988
Self
1981
Dr. Hank Pym
2018
Dr. Hank Pym
2015
Self
1999
Self
2003
2012
Dr. Hank Pym
2023
Self
2011
Detective Nick Curran
1992
Self
1953
Steve Keller
1972
Self
1984
Self - Laudatio
1984
Self
1948
Steven Taylor
1998
Dr. Hank Pym (archive footage) (uncredited)
2021
Self
2002
Nicholas Van Orton
1997
Dan Gallagher
1987
Guy-Am-I (voice)
2019
Sandy Kominsky
2018
Jack T. Colton
1984
Benjamin Franklin
2024
Robert Wakefield
2000
Gordon Gekko
1987
William
2025
Self
1991
Self
1952
D-Fens
1993
Billy Gerson
2013
Jack T. Colton
1985
Oliver Rose
1989
Madec
2014
Self
1981
Self
2010
Alex Coblenz
2011
Self (archive footage)
2022
Charles Remington
1996
Self - Presenter
1975
Pete Garrison
2006
Gordon Gekko
2010
Tom Sanders
1994
Uncle Wayne
2009
Mr. Thompson
2006
Eric Lasch
2017
Andrew Shepherd
1995
Dr. Nathan Conrad
2001
Self (archive footage)
2014
Oren Little
2014
1966
Self
2020
Nick Conklin
1989
Liberace
2013
Self
2003
Dr. Mark Bellows
1978
Steve Tobias
2003
Zach
1985
Ed Leland
1992
Ben Kalmen
2009
Self
1998
Richard Adams
1979
Anderson
2018
Mr. Burmeister
2001
Self - Dr. Hank Pym
2023
Grady Tripp
2000
Craig
1972
Self (voice)
2009
Self
2004
Self
2004
Self
2005
Alex Gromberg
2003
(archive footage)
2012
Self
1999
Self
1990
Self
1999
Mark Hunter
2009
Charlie
2007
Self - Narrator (voice)
1999
Steven Hardin
1983
Michael Andropolis
1979
Jeep Driver (uncredited)
1966
Self
2014
Self
1988
Self (archive footage)
2012
Self
2006
Adam Gaines
1970
Self
2019
Self
2019
Self
2004
Guest
2018
1977
Self
2020
Ben Lewin
1980
Self
2013
Danny Arlington Williams III
1972
2011
Narrator
2018
Self
2007
Self
2000
Self - Narrator (voice)
2024
Narrator (voice)
2016
Self
2005
Self - Actor
2023
Gordon Gekko (archive footage)
2021
Yitzhak Rabin (voice)
2013
Self
2009
Self - Forman's Producer (archive footage)
2019
Narrator
2007
Self - Actor (archive footage)
2019
Self
2020
Self - Actor
2017
Self
1994
Carl Dixon
1969
Self
2007
2023
(archive footage)
1988
Self
2010
Self (archive footage)
2014
Self
1997
Self
2016
Self
2017
Self
2009
Self
2000
Self
2020
Jerry
1971
Steven Keller
1972
Self
2009
Self
2005
Narrator
2003
Narrator
1973
Self
1976
Self
1988
Steve Keller (voice)
2011
Self
2003
Host
1990
Narrator (voice)
2001
Directing (2)
Production (26)
Producer
1975
Executive Producer
1997
Executive Producer
2018
Producer
1984
Executive Producer
2024
Producer
1997
Executive Producer
2020
Co-Producer
1991
Producer
1985
Producer
2014
Executive Producer
1996
Producer
1990
Producer
2006
Executive Producer
1984
Executive Producer
1992
Executive Producer
1986
Producer
2017
Producer
1993
Producer
1979
Executive Producer
1991
Producer
2001
Executive Producer
2019
Producer
2003
Co-Producer
1991
Executive Producer
1979
Executive Producer
2024
