Michael Kirk Douglas (born September 25, 1944 in New Brunswick, New Jersey) is an American actor and producer, and the most famous son of Hollywood legend Kirk Douglas.
His first major role was alongside Karl Malden in the TV series The Streets of San Francisco. He has since had a long and successful career on the big screen, including two Academy Awards, the first as producer of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, the other for his role as Gordon Gekko in Wall Street. Other popular films on his resume include The China Syndrome, Romancing the Stone, Basic Instinct, Falling Down, Wonder Boys, and Traffic (2000). More recently, he has been part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe as Ant-Man. He has also won an Emmy Award and a Golden Globe for his role as Liberace in Behind the Candelabra, along with a second Golden Globe for The Kominsky Method.
He was previously married to Diandra Luker, with whom he has one son, and since 2000 has been married to Catherine Zeta-Jones, with whom he has another son and a daughter. He was diagnosed with throat cancer in 2010, but appears to have gotten past it.
He is also the reason why Michael Keaton goes by that name, as the latter's real name is also "Michael Douglas".
Notable for:
- Coma (1978) — Dr. Mark Bellows
- The China Syndrome (1979) — Richard Adams
- The Star Chamber (1983) — Stephen Hardin
- Romancing the Stone (1984) — Jack Colton
- A Chorus Line (1985) — Zach
- Fatal Attraction (1987) — Dan Gallagher
- Wall Street (1987) — Gordon Gekko
- Black Rain (1989) — Nick Conklin
- The War of the Roses (1989) — Oliver Rose
- Basic Instinct (1992) — Nick Curran
- Falling Down (1993) — William "D-Fens" Foster
- Disclosure (1994) — Tom Sanders
- The American President (1995) — Andrew Shepherd
- The Game (1997) — Nicholas Van Orton
- A Perfect Murder (1998) — Steven Taylor
- One Day in September (1999) — documentary; narrator
- Traffic (2000) — Robert Wakefield
- Wonder Boys (2000) — Grady Tripp
- Don't Say a Word (2001) — Dr. Nathan R. Conrad
- The Sentinel (2006) — Peter 'Pete' Garrison
- Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (2010) — Gordon Gekko
- Haywire (2011) — Coblenz
- Behind the Candelabra (2013) — Liberace
- Marvel Cinematic Universe as Dr. Henry "Hank" Pym/Ant-Man
- Ant-Man (2015)
- Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018)
- Avengers: Endgame (2019)
- What If...? (2 episodes, 2021–23) (voice)
- Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania (2023)
- Animal World note (2018) — Anderson
- The F.B.I. (1 episode, 1971) — Jerry Williams
- The Streets of San Francisco (98 episodes, 1972–76) — Inspector Steve Keller
- Will & Grace (1 episode, 2002) — Detective Gavin Hatch
- Liberty's Kids (2 episodes, 2002) — Patrick Henry (voice)
- Phineas and Ferb (1 episode, 2011) — Waylon (voice)
- The Kominsky Method (22 episodes, 2018–21) — Sandy Kominsky
- Green Eggs and Ham (23 episodes, 2019–22) — Guy-Am-I (voice)
- Franklin (2024) — Benjamin Franklin
