Michael Douglas
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
Will & Grace
Detective Gavin Hatch
Golden Globe Awards
Self - Presenter
Golden Globe Awards
Self - Nominee
Golden Globe Awards
Self - Audience Member
Golden Globe Awards
Self - Cecil B. DeMille Award
What If...?
Hank Pym / Yellow Jacket (voice)
What If...?
Dr. Hank Pym / Ant-Man (voice)
Avengers: Endgame
Hank Pym
Tony Awards
Self - Presenter
The Game
Nicholas Van Orton
Close Up
Self (archive footage)
Bambi
Self
The F.B.I.
Jerry Williams
Wall Street
Gordon Gekko
Marvel Studios Legends
Dr. Hank Pym (archive footage) (uncredited)
Beyond the Reach
Madec
Black Rain
Nick Conklin
Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway
Self
The Oscars
Self
Disclosure
Tom Sanders
Coma
Dr. Mark Bellows
Romancing the Stone
Jack T. Colton
Haywire
Alex Coblenz
Ant-Man
Dr. Hank Pym
Shining Through
Ed Leland
Unlocked
Eric Lasch
Basic Instinct
Detective Nick Curran
Solitary Man
Ben Kalmen
Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania
Dr. Hank Pym
The Streets of San Francisco
Steve Keller
Looking Through Water
William
The In-Laws
Steve Tobias
This Is Your Life
Self
Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps
Gordon Gekko
Last Vegas
Billy Gerson
Don't Say a Word
Dr. Nathan Conrad
And So It Goes
Oren Little
It Runs in the Family
Alex Gromberg
Finding Your Roots
The Jewel of the Nile
Jack T. Colton
The Ghost and the Darkness
Charles Remington
Ant-Man and the Wasp
Dr. Hank Pym
Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy
Gordon Gekko (archive footage)
The War of the Roses
Oliver Rose
King of California
Charlie
The American President
Andrew Shepherd
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
(archive footage)
Running
Michael Andropolis
One Night at McCool's
Mr. Burmeister
A Chorus Line
Zach
Green Eggs and Ham
Guy-Am-I (voice)
It's My Turn
Ben Lewin
The Kominsky Method
Sandy Kominsky
Wonder Boys
Grady Tripp
It Takes a Lunatic
Self
Hollywood Banker
Self (archive footage)
One Day in September
Self - Narrator (voice)
The Star Chamber
Steven Hardin
Ghosts of Girlfriends Past
Uncle Wayne
Get Bruce!
Self
Traffic
Robert Wakefield
Animal World
Anderson
Hail, Hero!
Carl Dixon
Falling Down
D-Fens
Still Laugh-In: The Stars Celebrate
Self
Fatal Attraction
Dan Gallagher
Cast a Giant Shadow
Jeep Driver (uncredited)
A Perfect Murder
Steven Taylor
Sword-and-Sandal: The Story of the Period Epic
Self - Actor (archive footage)
Summertree
Jerry
Beyond a Reasonable Doubt
Mark Hunter
Franklin
Benjamin Franklin
You, Me and Dupree
Mr. Thompson
A Father… A Son… Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
Self
Dinosaurs Alive
Narrator
Adam at Six A.M.
Adam Gaines
Fog City Mavericks
Self
People's Choice Awards
Self - Presenter
Forman vs. Forman
Self - Forman's Producer (archive footage)
CBS Playhouse
The Sentinel
Pete Garrison
Ken San
Self
Total Excess: How Carolco Changed Hollywood
Self
The World's Greatest Stunts: A Tribute to Hollywood Stuntmen
Self
Inside Traffic: The Making of 'Traffic'
Self
TVTV Looks at the Oscars
Self
America: The Story of Us
Self
Making of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Self
Napoleon and Samantha
Danny Arlington Williams III
Black Rain: Making The Film
Self
Basic Instinct: Sex, Death & Stone
Self
Il était une fois Champs-Élysées
Self (archive footage)
The China Syndrome
Richard Adams
Miloš Forman: What Doesn't Kill You…
Self
Deauville et le rêve américain
Self
Tell Them Who You Are
Self
Behind the Candelabra
Liberace
A Call to Arms
Self (voice)
Electric Blue 29
(archive footage)
Richard Attenborough: A Life in Film
Self
Visible: Out on Television
Self
The Hollywood Greats
Forever Hollywood
Self
Nos Bastidores de Hollywood
Self (archive footage)
Direct Order
Narrator
America's Burning
Self - Narrator (voice)
Ben-Hur: The Epic That Changed Cinema
Self
Downwind
Michael Douglas: The Prodigal Son
Self - Actor
Supermensch: The Legend of Shep Gordon
Self
GRAND PRIX Driver
Narrator
Ocean Vet
Narrator (voice)
The Earth Day Special
Self
The Untameable Kirk Douglas
Self - Actor
Trumbo
Self
The Directors: Milos Forman
Self
Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania
Self - Dr. Hank Pym
Once upon a time on Wall Street
Self
When Michael Calls
Craig
Michael Douglas: Live from the TCM Classic Film Festival
Guest
In Search of Peace
Narrator (voice)
The China Syndrome: Creating a Controversy
Self
The Prime Ministers: The Pioneers
Yitzhak Rabin (voice)
Declaration of Independence
Self
The China Syndrome: A Fusion of Talent
Self
Completely Cuckoo
Self
Once Upon a Time… One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Self
Asylum: An Empty Nest For The Mentally Ill?
Self
The Streets of the Invisibles
Steve Keller (voice)
The Streets of San Francisco
Steven Keller
The Day After Peace
Self
I Am Curious Johnny
Self
cascadeurs de stars
Self
If Dolphins Could Talk
Host
Hassles and Hangups
Narrator
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Self
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Self
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Self
The Graham Norton Show
Self
The Kelly Clarkson Show
Self
Saturday Night Live
Self - Host
The Mike Douglas Show
Self
The Mike Douglas Show
Self - Co-Host
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Self
Real Time with Bill Maher
Self
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
Self
The Late Late Show with James Corden
Self
The Late Late Show with James Corden
Self - Guest
Leute heute
Self
The View
Self
The Merv Griffin Show
Self
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
Self
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
Self - Guest
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Self
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
Self
Champs-Elysées
Self
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
Self
Beckmann
Self
Goldene Kamera
Self
Goldene Kamera
Self - Laudatio
Wetten, dass..?
Self
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
Self
Pebble Mill
Self
The Jonathan Ross Show
Self
Entertainment Tonight
Self
The Magic Hour
Self
Inside the Actors Studio
Self
Celebrities Uncensored
Self