Michael Douglas
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Michael Kirk Douglas is an 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, the Honorary Palme d'Or and the AFI Life Achievement Award.
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Michael Kirk Douglas is an American and British actor and film producer. Born in New Brunswick in 1944, he is the son of Kirk Douglas and Diana Douglas. He has siblings Eric Douglas, Peter Douglas, and Joel Douglas. His child is Cameron Douglas. He is married to Catherine Zeta-Jones.
Douglas attended the University of California, Santa Barbara, and Choate Rosemary Hall. He began his work period in 1966. He is a member of the Democratic Party and has been employed by the United Nations. He resides in Los Angeles and Bermuda. He speaks English.
His awards include the Donostia Award, the Academy Award for Best Actor, the Academy Award for Best Picture, and the Theatre World Award. He has been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor and the Academy Award for Best Picture. He is recognized in the Academy Award Best Actor collection and the Hollywood Walk Of Fame collection.
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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…
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- Looking Through Water — William2025
- I Am Curious Johnny — Self2025
- Rob Reiner – Scenes from a Life — Self2025
- America's Burning — Self - Narrator (voice)2024
- Franklin — Benjamin Franklin2024
- Downwind2023
- Michael Douglas: The Prodigal Son — Self - Actor2023
- Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania — Self - Dr. Hank Pym2023
- Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania — Dr. Hank Pym2023
- Il était une fois Champs-Élysées — Self (archive footage)2022
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- Catherine Zeta-Jones
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- Kirk Douglas
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- Diana Douglas
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- Joel Douglas
- Occupation
- producer
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- United Nations
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- Democratic Party (United States)
- Languages spoken
- English language
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- English language
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- The Game
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- Wynn Handman
- Field of work
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- 59th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, Michael Douglas 07 (cropped).jpg
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- United States
- Residence
- Bermuda
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Michael Kirk Douglas (born September 25, 1944) is an 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, the Honorary Palme d'Or 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. He produced One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975), having acquired the rights to the novel from his father and later earned the Academy Award for Best Picture as a producer. Douglas won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his portrayal of Gordon Gekko in Oliver Stone's Wall Street (1987), a role which he reprised in the sequel Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (2010). Other notable roles include in The China Syndrome (1979), Romancing the Stone (1984), The Jewel of the Nile (1985), Fatal Attraction (1987), The War of the Roses (1989), Basic Instinct (1992), Falling Down (1993), The American President (1995), The Game (1997), Traffic (2000), Wonder Boys (2000), and Solitary Man (2009).
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