Michael Douglas

Basic Instinct

1992 · 2h 8m · Mystery · Thriller

See the performance as Detective Nick Curran.

Fatal Attraction

1987 · 1h 59m · Drama · Romance

See the performance as Dan Gallagher.

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About Michael Douglas

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. …

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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.

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2025
Rob Reiner – Scenes from a Life
Self
2025
I Am Curious Johnny
Self
2025
Looking Through Water
William
2024
America's Burning
Producer · Self - Narrator (voice)
2023
Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania
Self - Dr. Hank Pym
2023
Michael Douglas: The Prodigal Son
Self - Actor
2023
Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania
Dr. Hank Pym
2023
Downwind
Actor
2021
Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy
Gordon Gekko (archive footage)
2020
Basic Instinct: Sex, Death & Stone
Self
2020
Total Excess: How Carolco Changed Hollywood
Self
2020
Deauville et le rêve américain
Self
2019
Forman vs. Forman
Self - Forman's Producer (archive footage)
2019
We Have Always Lived in the Castle
Producer
2019
Still Laugh-In: The Stars Celebrate
Self
2019
It Takes a Lunatic
Self
2019
Avengers: Endgame
Hank Pym
2019
Sword-and-Sandal: The Story of the Period Epic
Self - Actor (archive footage)
2018
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest: The Shocking Truth
Self (archive footage)
2018
Animal World
Anderson
2018
Michael Douglas: Live from the TCM Classic Film Festival
Guest
2018
Hollywood: No Sex, Please!
Actor
2018
The Green Fog
Actor
2017
Once upon a time on Wall Street
Self
2017
Flatliners
Producer
2017
The Untameable Kirk Douglas
Self - Actor
2017
Unlocked
Eric Lasch
2016
Ken San
Self
2014
Hollywood Banker
Self (archive footage)
2014
Beyond the Reach
Producer · Madec
2014
Richard Attenborough: A Life in Film
Self
2014
And So It Goes
Oren Little
2013
Last Vegas
Billy Gerson
2013
The Prime Ministers: The Pioneers
Yitzhak Rabin (voice)
2013
Supermensch: The Legend of Shep Gordon
Self
2013
Behind the Candelabra
Liberace
2012
Close Up
Self (archive footage)
2012
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
(archive footage)
2011
Haywire
Alex Coblenz
2011
The Streets of the Invisibles
Steve Keller (voice) (archival)
2011
Once Upon a Time… One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Self
2010
Asylum: An Empty Nest For The Mentally Ill?
Self
2009
Miloš Forman: What Doesn't Kill You…
Self
2009
Solitary Man
Ben Kalmen
2009
Ghosts of Girlfriends Past
Uncle Wayne
2009
The Day After Peace
Self
2009
A Call to Arms
Self (voice)
2009
Making of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Self
2009
Beyond a Reasonable Doubt
Mark Hunter
2007
Fog City Mavericks
Self
2007
Trumbo
Self
2007
Dinosaurs Alive
Narrator
2007
King of California
Charlie
2006
Black Rain: Making The Film
Self
2006
You, Me and Dupree
Mr. Thompson
2006
The Sentinel
Producer · Pete Garrison
2005
Ben-Hur: The Epic That Changed Cinema
Self
2005
A Father… A Son… Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
Self
2005
Nos Bastidores de Hollywood
Self (archive footage)
2004
The China Syndrome: A Fusion of Talent
Self
2004
The China Syndrome: Creating a Controversy
Self
2004
Tell Them Who You Are
Self
2003
Declaration of Independence
Self
2003
The In-Laws
Steve Tobias
2003
It Runs in the Family
Producer · Alex Gromberg
2003
Direct Order
Narrator
2001
Blonde Poison: The Making of 'Basic Instinct'
Self (archive footage)
2001
Don't Say a Word
Dr. Nathan Conrad
2001
In Search of Peace
Narrator (voice)
2001
One Night at McCool's
Producer · Mr. Burmeister
2000
Traffic
Robert Wakefield
2000
Inside Traffic: The Making of 'Traffic'
Self
2000
The Directors: Milos Forman
Self
2000
Wonder Boys
Grady Tripp
1999
One Day in September
Self - Narrator (voice)
1999
Saturday Night Live: 25th Anniversary Special
Self
1999
Forever Hollywood
Self
1999
Get Bruce!
Self
1998
A Perfect Murder
Steven Taylor
1997
Completely Cuckoo
Self
1997
The Rainmaker
Producer
1997
The Game
Nicholas Van Orton
1997
Face/Off
Producer
1996
The Ghost and the Darkness
Producer · Charles Remington
1995
The American President
Andrew Shepherd
1994
Disclosure
Tom Sanders
1993
Falling Down
D-Fens
1993
Made in America
Producer
1992
Radio Flyer
Producer
1992
Shining Through
Ed Leland
1991
Double Impact
Producer
1991
Eyes of an Angel
Producer
1991
Stone Cold
Producer
1990
Lennon: A Tribute
Host
1990
Flatliners
Producer
1990
The Earth Day Special
Self

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Dr. Hank Pym

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Gordon Gekko

Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps

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Detective Nick Curran

Basic Instinct

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Dan Gallagher

Fatal Attraction

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Michael Douglas

Michael Douglas’s screen credits include Dr. Hank Pym in Ant-Man, Detective Nick Curran in Basic Instinct, and Dan Gallagher in Fatal Attraction.

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Ant-Man

2015 · 1h 57m · Action · Adventure

See the performance as Dr. Hank Pym.

Basic Instinct

1992 · 2h 8m · Mystery · Thriller

See the performance as Detective Nick Curran.

Fatal Attraction

1987 · 1h 59m · Drama · Romance

See the performance as Dan Gallagher.