Biography
Michael Douglas is an American actor and film producer. Born Michael Kirk Douglas on 25 September 1944 in New Brunswick, New Jersey, he is the elder son of actors Kirk Douglas and Diana Dill. He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in drama from the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Douglas first gained prominence playing a homicide inspector in the television series The Streets of San Francisco (1972–1976). He produced One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975), which won the Academy Award for Best Picture. He received the Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance as Gordon Gekko in Wall Street (1987).
His film roles include Robert Wakefield in Traffic (2000), Alex Coblenz in Haywire (2011) and Dr. Hank Pym in the Marvel Cinematic Universe films Ant-Man (2015), Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018) and Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania (2023). He portrayed Liberace in Behind the Candelabra (2013), for which he won a Primetime Emmy Award.
