Acting
Michael Douglas
EN, FR, CS, ZH cinema · 131 credits
Born
25 September 1944 (age 82)
Birthplace
New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA
Also known as Michael Kirk 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
Filmography
Looking Through Water
as William
America's Burning
as Self - Narrator (voice), Executive Producer
Downwind
Actor
Michael Douglas: The Prodigal Son
as Self - Actor
Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania
as Self - Dr. Hank Pym
Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania
as Dr. Hank Pym
Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy
as Gordon Gekko (archive footage)
Sword-and-Sandal: The Story of the Period Epic
as Self - Actor (archive footage)
Avengers: Endgame
as Hank Pym
Forman vs. Forman
as Self - Forman's Producer (archive footage)
We Have Always Lived in the Castle
Executive Producer
Ant-Man and the Wasp
as Dr. Hank Pym
Animal World
as Anderson
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest: The Shocking Truth
2018
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest: The Shocking Truth
as Self (archive footage)
Unlocked
as Eric Lasch
The Untameable Kirk Douglas
as Self - Actor, Thanks
Flatliners
Producer
Ken San
as Self
Ant-Man
as Dr. Hank Pym
And So It Goes
as Oren Little
Beyond the Reach
as Madec, Producer
Hollywood Banker
as Self (archive footage)
Behind the Candelabra
as Liberace
Last Vegas
as Billy
The Prime Ministers: The Pioneers
as Yitzhak Rabin (voice)
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
as (archive footage)
Close Up
as Self (archive footage)
Haywire
as Alex Coblenz
The Streets of the Invisibles
2011
The Streets of the Invisibles
as Steve Keller (voice) (archival)
Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps
as Gordon Gekko
A Call to Arms
as Self (voice)
Beyond a Reasonable Doubt
as Mark Hunter
Ghosts of Girlfriends Past
as Uncle Wayne
Solitary Man
as Ben Kalmen
King of California
as Charlie
Dinosaurs Alive
as Narrator
Trumbo
as Self
You, Me and Dupree
as Mr. Thompson
The Sentinel
as Pete Garrison, Producer
Nos Bastidores de Hollywood
as Self (archive footage)
The In-Laws
as Steve Tobias
It Runs in the Family
as Alex Gromberg, Producer
Direct Order
2003
Direct Order
as Narrator
One Night at McCool's
as Mr. Burmeister, Producer
Don't Say a Word
as Dr. Nathan Conrad
In Search of Peace
as Narrator (voice)
Blonde Poison: The Making of 'Basic Instinct'
as Self (archive footage)
Traffic
as Robert Wakefield
Wonder Boys
as Grady Tripp
One Day in September
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Get Bruce!
as Self
A Perfect Murder
as Steven Taylor
The Game
as Nicholas Van Orton
The Rainmaker
Producer
Face/Off
Executive Producer
The Ghost and the Darkness
as Charles Remington, Executive Producer
The American President
as Andrew Shepherd
Disclosure
as Tom Sanders
Falling Down
as D-Fens
Made in America
Producer
Basic Instinct
as Detective Nick Curran
Shining Through
as Ed Leland
Radio Flyer
Executive Producer
Double Impact
Co-Producer
Eyes of an Angel
Executive Producer
Stone Cold
Co-Producer
Flatliners
Producer
The War of the Roses
as Oliver Rose
Black Rain
as Nick Conklin
Electric Blue 29
as (archive footage)
Wall Street
as Gordon Gekko
Fatal Attraction
as Dan Gallagher
A Chorus Line
as Zach
The Jewel of the Nile
as Jack T. Colton, Producer
Romancing the Stone
as Jack T. Colton, Producer
Starman
Executive Producer
The Star Chamber
as Steven Hardin
It's My Turn
as Ben Lewin
The China Syndrome
as Richard Adams, Producer
Running
as Michael Andropolis, Executive Producer
Coma
as Dr. Mark Bellows
Hassles and Hangups
as Narrator
Napoleon and Samantha
as Danny Arlington Williams III
When Michael Calls
as Craig
The Streets of San Francisco
as Steven Keller
Summertree
as Jerry
Adam at Six A.M.
as Adam Gaines
Hail, Hero!
as Carl Dixon
Cast a Giant Shadow
as Jeep Driver (uncredited)
Lonely are the Brave
Assistant Editor