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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 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.
Michael Douglas
Victor Von Doom (Cameo)
for Victor Von Doom (Cameo) in The Fantastic 4 (2004)
Suggested by mrnotsure
Reed Richards leads an experimental space mission to study a mysterious surge of cosmic radiation, joined by his fiancée Sue Storm, her impulsive younger brother Johnny, and Reed’s close friend and pilot Ben Grimm. When the mission is struck by cosmic rays, the crew barely survives and crash-lands back on Earth. Soon after, they discover they have been permanently transformed: Reed can stretch his body, Sue can turn invisible and create force fields, Johnny can ignite into living flame and fly, and Ben is mutated into a super-strong, rock-like being. As Reed searches desperately for a cure—particularly for Ben—the group struggles with guilt, anger, and their fractured relationships. Their fragile unity is threatened by the emergence of the Red Ghost, a brilliant Soviet physicist who deliberately exposed himself to cosmic radiation in an attempt to surpass Richards. Gaining the ability to phase through solid matter, Red Ghost launches a series of attacks with the help of his super-powered ape allies, aiming to assert scientific and ideological dominance. Forced into the public eye, the four must learn to trust one another and combine their abilities to stop him. In a final confrontation, they defeat Red Ghost by embracing teamwork over ego, accepting that their powers are not a curse but a responsibility. United at last, Reed, Sue, Johnny, and Ben step forward as the Fantastic Four.
