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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
Hank Pym
for Hank Pym in The X-Files: The Lost Race
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A Disney+ TV series focusing on key characters of the mutant race, incorporating the X-Men & Mutant storylines into the current MCU timeline. Based on an original reddit idea, where mutants have existed as isolated cases of humans with abnormal genetic variation throughout history. They're a set of rare cases that as of 1982, there have been only 180-200 documented cases/samples of the rare genetic specimens found. Charles Xavier,a leading geneticist and mutant himself with psychic abilities,has been studying about this rare gene mutation. He seeks to know more about them, and the belief of fear and paranoia around them which has existed for thousands of years. He along with another fellow mutant- geneticist ,Hank McKoy embark on a quest to find these mutants and study them from the fringes of human society. By end of the first season they are able to find and interact with a few mutants like a German holocaust survivor Erik Lehnsher(Magneto), an shapeshifting assassin Raven Darkholme(Mystique) etc. Also, they underythat some mutants have been held captive in government facilities for scientific study and experimentation (Like Stryker's facility) who are still hunting for these rare mutants.
