Acting
Michael 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.
Filmography
Looking Through Water
Film · 2025
I Am Curious Johnny
Film · 2025
Rob Reiner – Scenes from a Life
Film · 2025
America's Burning
Film · 2024
Franklin
Series · 2024
Downwind
Film · 2023
Michael Douglas: The Prodigal Son
Film · 2023
Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania
Film · 2023
Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania
Film · 2023
Il était une fois Champs-Élysées
Series · 2022
Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy
Film · 2021
What If...?
Series · 2021
Marvel Studios Legends
Series · 2021
What If...?
Series · 2021
Total Excess: How Carolco Changed Hollywood
Film · 2020
Basic Instinct: Sex, Death & Stone
Film · 2020
Deauville et le rêve américain
Film · 2020
Visible: Out on Television
Series · 2020
Sword-and-Sandal: The Story of the Period Epic
Film · 2019
Still Laugh-In: The Stars Celebrate
Film · 2019
It Takes a Lunatic
Film · 2019
Avengers: Endgame
Film · 2019
Forman vs. Forman
Film · 2019
Green Eggs and Ham
Series · 2019
The Kelly Clarkson Show
Series · 2019
Ant-Man and the Wasp
Film · 2018
Animal World
Film · 2018
Michael Douglas: Live from the TCM Classic Film Festival
Film · 2018
Hollywood: No Sex, Please!
Film · 2018
The Green Fog
Film · 2018
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest: The Shocking Truth
Film · 2018
GRAND PRIX Driver
Series · 2018
The Kominsky Method
Series · 2018
Once upon a time on Wall Street
Film · 2017
Unlocked
Film · 2017
The Untameable Kirk Douglas
Film · 2017
Ken San
Film · 2016
Ocean Vet
Series · 2016
Ant-Man
Film · 2015
The Late Late Show with James Corden
Series · 2015
The Late Late Show with James Corden
Series · 2015
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Series · 2015
And So It Goes
Film · 2014
Beyond the Reach
Film · 2014
Hollywood Banker
Film · 2014
Richard Attenborough: A Life in Film
Film · 2014
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Series · 2014
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Series · 2014
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
Series · 2014
Behind the Candelabra
Film · 2013
Last Vegas
Film · 2013
The Prime Ministers: The Pioneers
Film · 2013
Supermensch: The Legend of Shep Gordon
Film · 2013
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
Film · 2012
Close Up
Film · 2012
Finding Your Roots
Series · 2012
Haywire
Film · 2011
The Streets of the Invisibles
Film · 2011
Once Upon a Time… One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Film · 2011
The Jonathan Ross Show
Series · 2011
Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps
Film · 2010
Asylum: An Empty Nest For The Mentally Ill?
Film · 2010
America: The Story of Us
Series · 2010
A Call to Arms
Film · 2009
Beyond a Reasonable Doubt
Film · 2009
Ghosts of Girlfriends Past
Film · 2009
Solitary Man
Film · 2009
The Day After Peace
Film · 2009
Miloš Forman: What Doesn't Kill You…
Film · 2009
Making of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Film · 2009
King of California
Film · 2007
Dinosaurs Alive
Film · 2007
Trumbo
Film · 2007
Fog City Mavericks
Film · 2007
The Graham Norton Show
Series · 2007
You, Me and Dupree
Film · 2006
The Sentinel
Film · 2006
Black Rain: Making The Film
Film · 2006
A Father… A Son… Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
Film · 2005
Ben-Hur: The Epic That Changed Cinema
Film · 2005
Nos Bastidores de Hollywood
Film · 2005
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
Series · 2005
Tell Them Who You Are
Film · 2004
The China Syndrome: Creating a Controversy
Film · 2004
The China Syndrome: A Fusion of Talent
Film · 2004
The In-Laws
Film · 2003
It Runs in the Family
Film · 2003
Direct Order
Film · 2003
Declaration of Independence
Film · 2003
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
Series · 2003
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Series · 2003
Celebrities Uncensored
Series · 2003
Real Time with Bill Maher
Series · 2003
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Series · 2003
Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway
Series · 2002
One Night at McCool's
Film · 2001
Don't Say a Word
Film · 2001
In Search of Peace
Film · 2001
Blonde Poison: The Making of 'Basic Instinct'
Film · 2001
Traffic
Film · 2000
Wonder Boys
Film · 2000
Inside Traffic: The Making of 'Traffic'
Film · 2000
The Directors: Milos Forman
Film · 2000
One Day in September
Film · 1999
Get Bruce!
Film · 1999
Forever Hollywood
Film · 1999
Saturday Night Live: 25th Anniversary Special
Film · 1999
Beckmann
Series · 1999
A Perfect Murder
Film · 1998
Will & Grace
Series · 1998
The Magic Hour
Series · 1998
The Game
Film · 1997
Completely Cuckoo
Film · 1997
The View
Series · 1997
Leute heute
Series · 1997
The Ghost and the Darkness
Film · 1996
The American President
Film · 1995
Disclosure
Film · 1994
Inside the Actors Studio
Series · 1994
Falling Down
Film · 1993
Basic Instinct
Film · 1992
Shining Through
Film · 1992
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
Series · 1992
Pebble Mill
Series · 1991
If Dolphins Could Talk
Film · 1990
The Earth Day Special
Film · 1990
Lennon: A Tribute
Film · 1990
The War of the Roses
Film · 1989
Black Rain
Film · 1989
The World's Greatest Stunts: A Tribute to Hollywood Stuntmen
Film · 1988
Electric Blue 29
Film · 1988
cascadeurs de stars
Film · 1988
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
Series · 1988
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
Series · 1988
Wall Street
Film · 1987
Fatal Attraction
Film · 1987
A Chorus Line
Film · 1985
The Jewel of the Nile
Film · 1985
Romancing the Stone
Film · 1984
Goldene Kamera
Series · 1984
Goldene Kamera
Series · 1984
Jeopardy!
Series · 1984
The Star Chamber
Film · 1983
Champs-Elysées
Series · 1982
Wetten, dass..?
Series · 1981
Entertainment Tonight
Series · 1981
It's My Turn
Film · 1980
The China Syndrome
Film · 1979
Running
Film · 1979
Coma
Film · 1978
Ciné regards
Series · 1978
The South Bank Show
Series · 1978
The Hollywood Greats
Series · 1977
TVTV Looks at the Oscars
Film · 1976
Saturday Night Live
Series · 1975
People's Choice Awards
Series · 1975
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
Series · 1975
People's Choice Awards
Series · 1975
Hassles and Hangups
Film · 1973
Napoleon and Samantha
Film · 1972
When Michael Calls
Film · 1972
The Streets of San Francisco
Film · 1972
The Streets of San Francisco
Series · 1972
Summertree
Film · 1971
Film '72
Series · 1971
Adam at Six A.M.
Film · 1970
Hail, Hero!
Film · 1969
Cast a Giant Shadow
Film · 1966
CBS Playhouse
Series · 1966
The F.B.I.
Series · 1965
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Series · 1962
The Merv Griffin Show
Series · 1962
The Mike Douglas Show
Series · 1961
The Mike Douglas Show
Series · 1961
Tony Awards
Series · 1956
The Oscars
Series · 1953
This Is Your Life
Series · 1952
Bambi
Series · 1948
Golden Globe Awards
Series · 1944
Golden Globe Awards
Series · 1944
Golden Globe Awards
Series · 1944
Golden Globe Awards
Series · 1944
White Lies
Film