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Michael Douglas
Michael Douglas
Fødselsdag: 1944-09-25
Fødested: New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA
Biografi: 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, and the AFI Life Achievement Award. The elder son of Kirk Douglas and Diana Dill, Douglas received 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. After leaving The Streets of San Francisco in 1976, Douglas went on to produce films including The China Syndrome (1979) and Romancing the Stone (1984). He won the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy for Romancing the Stone, in which he also starred as the romantic lead. Douglas reprised this role in the sequel in 1985, The Jewel of the Nile, which he also produced. He appeared in the musical A Chorus Line (1985) and the psychological thriller Fatal Attraction (1987). 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). His subsequent film roles included: Black Rain (1989); The War of the Roses (1989); Basic Instinct (1992); Falling Down (1993); The American President (1995); The Game (1997); Traffic and Wonder Boys (both 2000); Solitary Man (2009). 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 aging acting coach in the Netflix comedy series The Kominsky Method (2018–2021), for which he won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Television Series Musical or Comedy, and in the Netflix animated series Green Eggs and Ham, in which he voices Guy-Am-I. He has portrayed Hank Pym in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, appearing in the films Ant-Man (2015), Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018), Avengers: Endgame (2019) and Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania (2023). He also voiced an alternate version of the character in the MCU animated television series What If...?. Besides his acting career, Douglas has received notice for his humanitarian and political activism, as well as media attention for his marriage to actress Catherine Zeta-Jones.
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Coma
6.7
Coma, 1978
Thriller
Mysterium
Sci-Fi
The China Syndrome
7.1
The China Syndrome, 1979
Drama
Thriller
Romancing the Stone
6.8
Romancing the Stone, 1984
Romantik
Komedie
Action
Eventyr
The Jewel of the Nile
6.2
The Jewel of the Nile, 1985
Eventyr
Action
Komedie
Romantik
Fatal Attraction
6.8
Fatal Attraction, 1987
Drama
Thriller
Wall Street
7.2
Wall Street, 1987
Detektiv
Drama
The War of the Roses
6.9
The War of the Roses, 1989
Komedie
Drama
Black Rain
6.6
Black Rain, 1989
Drama
Action
Thriller
Basic Instinct
6.9
Basic Instinct, 1992
Thriller
Mysterium
Falling Down
7.4
Falling Down, 1993
Detektiv
Drama
Thriller
Disclosure
6.3
Disclosure, 1994
Thriller
Drama
Detektiv
The American President
6.5
The American President, 1995
Komedie
Drama
Romantik
The Ghost and the Darkness
6.8
The Ghost and the Darkness, 1996
Eventyr
Action
Thriller
The Game
7.6
The Game, 1997
Drama
Thriller
Mysterium
A Perfect Murder
6.5
A Perfect Murder, 1998
Detektiv
Thriller
Drama
Traffic
7.0
Traffic, 2000
Thriller
Drama
Detektiv
Wonder Boys
6.8
Wonder Boys, 2000
Komedie
Drama
Don't Say a Word
6.2
Don't Say a Word, 2001
Thriller
Mysterium
One Night at McCool's
5.8
One Night at McCool's, 2001
Komedie
Detektiv
The In-Laws
5.6
The In-Laws, 2003
Action
Komedie
You, Me and Dupree
5.6
You, Me and Dupree, 2006
Komedie
Romantik
King of California
6.4
King of California, 2007
Komedie
Drama
Ghosts of Girlfriends Past
6.0
Ghosts of Girlfriends Past, 2009
Fantasy
Komedie
Romantik
Beyond a Reasonable Doubt
5.7
Beyond a Reasonable Doubt, 2009
Thriller
Solitary Man
5.9
Solitary Man, 2009
Komedie
Drama
Romantik
Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps
6.1
Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, 2010
Drama
Detektiv
Haywire
5.7
Haywire, 2011
Action
Drama
Thriller
Last Vegas
6.4
Last Vegas, 2013
Komedie
Behind the Candelabra
6.7
Behind the Candelabra, 2013
Drama
Romantik
Beyond the Reach
5.9
Beyond the Reach, 2014
Thriller
And So It Goes
6.1
And So It Goes, 2014
Komedie
Drama
Romantik
Ant-Man
7.1
Ant-Man, 2015
Sci-Fi
Action
Eventyr
Unlocked
6.2
Unlocked, 2017
Action
Thriller
Ant-Man and the Wasp
6.9
Ant-Man and the Wasp, 2018
Action
Eventyr
Sci-Fi
Animal World
7.0
Animal World, 2018
Drama
Action
Eventyr
Thriller
Avengers: Endgame
8.3
Avengers: Endgame, 2019
Eventyr
Sci-Fi
Action
Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania
6.4
Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, 2023
Action
Eventyr
Sci-Fi