Acting · New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA · Born September 25, 1944
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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2025
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MovieI Am Curious Johnny
2025
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2025
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MovieAmerica's Burning
2024
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TVFranklin
2024
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MovieMarvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania
2023
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MovieMichael Douglas: The Prodigal Son
2023
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MovieAnt-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania
2023
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MovieDownwind
2023
TVIl était une fois Champs-Élysées
2022
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TVWhat If...?
2021
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MovieCrack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy
2021
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TVMarvel Studios Legends
2021
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MovieBasic Instinct: Sex, Death & Stone
2020
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MovieTotal Excess: How Carolco Changed Hollywood
2020
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MovieDeauville et le rêve américain
2020
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TVVisible: Out on Television
2020
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TVGreen Eggs and Ham
2019
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TVThe Kelly Clarkson Show
2019
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MovieForman vs. Forman
2019
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MovieStill Laugh-In: The Stars Celebrate
2019
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MovieIt Takes a Lunatic
2019
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MovieAvengers: Endgame
2019
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MovieSword-and-Sandal: The Story of the Period Epic
2019
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TVThe Kominsky Method
2018
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MovieAnt-Man and the Wasp
2018
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest: The Shocking Truth
2018
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MovieAnimal World
2018
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MovieMichael Douglas: Live from the TCM Classic Film Festival
2018
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MovieHollywood: No Sex, Please!
2018
TVGRAND PRIX Driver
2018
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MovieThe Green Fog
2018
MovieOnce upon a time on Wall Street
2017
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MovieThe Untameable Kirk Douglas
2017
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MovieUnlocked
2017
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TVOcean Vet
2016
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MovieKen San
2016
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TVThe Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
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MovieAnt-Man
2015
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TVThe Late Late Show with James Corden
2015
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TVVariety Studio: Actors on Actors
2014
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MovieHollywood Banker
2014
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MovieBeyond the Reach
2014
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MovieRichard Attenborough: A Life in Film
2014
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MovieAnd So It Goes
2014
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TVLate Night with Seth Meyers
2014
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TVThe Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014
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MovieLast Vegas
2013
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2013
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2013
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2013
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2012
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2012
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2012
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2011
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The Streets of the Invisibles
2011
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TVThe Jonathan Ross Show
2011
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2011
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Asylum: An Empty Nest For The Mentally Ill?
2010
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MovieWall Street: Money Never Sleeps
2010
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TVAmerica: The Story of Us
2010
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2009
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2009
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2009
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2009
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2009
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2009
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2009
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2007
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2007
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MovieDinosaurs Alive
2007
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2007
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2007
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2006
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2006
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2006
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2005
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MovieA Father… A Son… Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
2005
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MovieNos Bastidores de Hollywood
2005
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TVThe Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
2005
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MovieThe China Syndrome: A Fusion of Talent
2004
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2004
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MovieTell Them Who You Are
2004
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2003
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2003
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TVCelebrities Uncensored
2003
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MovieThe In-Laws
2003
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MovieIt Runs in the Family
2003
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2003
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2003
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2003
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2002
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2001
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2001
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2001
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2001
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2000
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2000
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2000
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2000
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1999
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1999
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MovieGet Bruce!
1999
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MovieForever Hollywood
1999
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1998
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1998
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1998
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1997
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1997
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1997
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1997
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1996
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1994
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1994
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1993
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1992
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1992
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1992
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1991
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1990
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If Dolphins Could Talk
1990
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1989
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1989
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1988
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1988
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1988
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1988
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1987
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1987
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1985
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1985
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1984
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1984
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1983
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1982
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1981
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1981
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1980
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1979
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1979
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1978
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1978
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1977
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1976
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1975
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1975
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1975
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1973
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1972
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1972
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1972
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1972
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1971
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1971
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1970
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1969
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CBS Playhouse
1966
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1966
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1965
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1962
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1962
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TVThe Mike Douglas Show
1961
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1956
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1953
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TVThis Is Your Life
1952
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TVBambi
1948
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1944
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