Michael Douglas is an American actor and film producer who portrayed Dan Gallagher in the Paramount Pictures 1987 film Fatal Attraction.
General overview[]
Douglas' early acting roles include 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 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, he portrayed Liberace in the HBO film Behind the Candelabra, where 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. He has also portrayed Hank Pym in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, beginning with Ant-Man (2015).
Coincidentally, Douglas is a U.S. citizen by birth in the United States and has British citizenship with Bermudian Status through his mother's birth in Bermuda.
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External links[]
Michael Douglas on the Internet Movie Database
Michael Douglas on Wikipedia
