Michael Douglas

ABOUT MICHAEL DOUGLAS

Won an Academy Award for Best Actor for his role in the 1987 film Wall Street . He reprised his role in the 2010 sequel Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps . His other notable film credits include The Game, Traffic , Ant-Man , Basic Instinct, Falling Down and Wonder Boys. He is the son of legendary actor Kirk Douglas .

He studied drama at UC Santa Barbara .

His role as flamboyant pianist Liberace in the 2013 HBO biopic Behind the Candelabra earned him an Emmy Award.

He married actress Catherine Zeta-Jones in November of 2000. He has two sons named Dylan and Cameron and a daughter named Carys .

He won an Academy Award for producing the 1975 feature One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest , which also earned Jack Nicholson an Academy Award for Best Actor.