Michael Douglas Biography, Age, Parents, Wife, Son, Movies & Net Worth

About Michael Douglas

Michael Douglas is one of the most accomplished American actors and producers in Hollywood, who has given superior performances in a career that has stretched for over four decades. His father Kirk Douglas, the renowned actor, was an early influence in his life, and after getting to know the inner workings of the movie-making process from his father he studied drama at university before starting off his career as an actor. Michael Douglas started off on television and quickly graduated to films, however it was on television that he first spotted success with this performance in the show ‘The Streets of San Francisco’.

Later on, he produced the iconic film ‘One Flew Over the Cuckoos’ Nest’ and won the accolade as the film went on to win several awards. Douglas’ most famous and noteworthy role remains that of Gordon Gekko in the film ‘Wall Street’ that has become a cult classic for people across generations. Douglas has remained a constant in an industry that changes at a breakneck pace and has evolved his style with the times, which is a sign of an actor who knows his craft.

Bio/Wiki

Birth Name	Michael Kirk Douglas
Nick Name	Michael
Age	(as in 2022) 78 years
Religion	Jews
Sun Sign/Zodiac Sign	Libra
Birth Place	New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States
Date of Birth	25 September 1944  [1]wikipedia
Nationality	American
Residence	Los Angeles, California, United States
Home Town	New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States
Hobbies	Not Known

Physical  Stats

Height (Approx.)	Feet & Inches- 5′ 10″ Centimeters- 178cm Meters- 1.78 m
Weight (Approx.)	Kilograms- 72Kg Pounds- 161 lbs
Figure Measurements
Chest Size	42 inches
Hips Size	38 inches
Waist Size	30 inches
Extra Ordinary Features
Race / Ethnicity	White
Hair Color	Gray
Eye Color	Blue
S*xual Orientation	Straight
Dress Size	Not Known
Shoe Size	9 (US)

Family

Mother’s Name	Diana Dill (Actress)
Father’s Name	Kirk Douglas (Actor, Producer, Director, Author)
Brother	Joel Douglas (Younger Brother) (Film Producer)
Sister	None
Relatives	Peter Douglas (Younger Paternal Half-Brother) (Producer) Eric Douglas (Late Younger Paternal Half-Brother) (Actor, Standup Comedian) Herschel “Harry” Danielovitch (aka) Demsky (Paternal Grandfather) Bryna Sanglel (Paternal Grandmother) Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Melville Dill (Maternal Grandfather) Ruth Rapalje Neilson (Maternal Grandmother)

Wife/Spouse	1. Diandra Luker (1977-1995) 2. Catherine Zeta-Jones (2000-Present)
Marriage Date	20 March 1977 (with Diandra Luker) 18 November 2000( with Catherine Zeta-Jones)
Children	Son- Cameron Douglas Dylan Michael (born August 8, 2000) Daughter- Carys Zeta (born April 20, 2003)

Personal Life

School	The Allen-Stevenson School Eaglebrook School The Choate Preparatory School
College/University	University of California, Santa Barbara Also, Michael Douglas took acting lessons with Wynn Handman at The American Place Theatre in New York City
Educational Qualification	Graduate
Profession	Actor, Producer, Director, Voiceover Artist
Brands Endorsed	Michael Douglas has done endorsement work for AIDS Fund, Microsoft software, The Nature Conservancy, American Cancer Society, Comdirect, etc.
Career Manager	1. Furthur Films, Inc., Production Company, Los Angeles, California, United States 2. United Talent Agency, Talent Agency, Beverly Hills, Los Angeles County, California, United States

Awards

N/A

Relationship & more

Affairs/Girlfriends

1. Brenda Vaccaro (1971-1976) 2. Diandra Douglas (1977-1995) 3. Nancy Pfister (1976) 4. Jenny Strachan (1982) 5. Kathleen Turner (1983) 6. Loredana Romito (1988) 7. Sabrina Guinness (1990) 8. Sharon Stone (1992) 9. Elizabeth Vargas (1997-1998) 10. Maureen Dowd (1998) 11. Martine McCutcheon (1998) 12. Catherine Zeta-Jones (1999-Present)

Favorite Things

Favourite Food	Cheeseburger
Favourite Places	Texas in USA
Favourite Songs	Can I Go Now
Favourite Color	Orange
Controversies	In January 2018, The Hollywood Reporter published an article in which writer Susan Braudy alleged she had been s*xually harassed while working for Douglas’ production company in the late 1980s. Braudy said Douglas fondled himself in front of her, made inappropriate comments about her body and later pressured her to sign a nondisclosure agreement before firing her. Attempting to get in front of the story before its publication, Douglas told Deadline, “How am I, in a 50 year career in this industry, dealing with an employee 33 years ago who perhaps is disgruntled that I let her go, even though I have never heard from her in 32 years.”

Michael Kirk Douglas was born on 25 September 1944 in the city of New Brunswick in New Jersey, the United States to Kirk Douglas and Diana Dill. He was the eldest child of legendary actor Kirk Douglas and his mother was a noted actress as well. He has a younger brother and two half brothers.

Michael Douglas studied at the Allen-Stevenson School located in New York City before going on to Eaglebrook School and finally at the Choate Preparatory School. Right from his childhood, he was interested in the craft of filmmaking and regularly accompanied his father to film sets.

Michael Douglas had always aspired to be an actor and hence he studied drama at the University of California in Santa Barbara. He graduated in the year 1968. He also took lessons at The American Place Theatre located in New York City in order to further hone his acting skills.

Money Factor

As of 2022, Michael Douglas’s net worth is estimated to be roughly $300 million dollars, making him one of the wealthiest actors in the world.

Estimated Net Worth in 2022	$300 million
Estimated Net Worth in 2021	Under Review
Annual Salary	Under Review
Income Source	Actor, Producer, Director, Voiceover Artist

Michael owns a valuable real estate portfolio with assets around the globe. One of his most impressive properties is a 250-acre estate on the coast of Spain called S’Estaca which he bought in 1990 for $3.5 million (the same as around $6 million today). At one point in 2014, he listed the property for sale for $60 million but did not find a buyer. In June 2019 he re-listed it for $32 million and even narrated the property’s sales video.

Marriage to Catherine Zeta-Jones

Douglas married Diandra Luker in 1977. They had one son, Cameron, but were separated in 1995 and later divorced. On November 18, 2000, Douglas married Welsh actress Catherine Zeta-Jones, his Traffic co-star. The couple welcomed a son, Dylan Michael Douglas, in August 2000, followed by daughter Carys Zeta Douglas in April 2003.

In August 2013, it was confessed that Douglas and Zeta-Jones had separated after more than 12 years of marriage. A spokesperson for the couple told the Huffington Post website that “Catherine and Michael are taking some time apart to evaluate and work on their marriage.“ After a brief span apart, they conformed in 2014. Outside of his busy acting career, Douglas is active in building up human rights. His work in this area includes serving as a United Nations messenger of peace.

 Movies And TV Shows

• Douglas began his Hollywood career as an assistant director on some of his father’s 1960s films. After roles in certain television dramas, he attains the spotlight by co-starring Karl Malden in the 1970s TV series The Streets of San Francisco (1972-1977).
• He also directed two episodes of the show. In 1975, Douglas served as executive producer for Milos Forman‘s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, which went on to win five Academy Awards, including one for Best Picture.
• He got involved in the film after his father, who owned the rights to Ken Kesey‘s novel of the same name, couldn’t successfully develop it into a film. Despite the success of the film, it was difficult for Douglas to find work as an actor, having received so much recognition as a producer.
• In 1979, he starred with Jane Fonda and Jack Lemmon in the film The China Syndrome, which he also co-produced.
• Douglas landed his first leading man role in Romancing the Stone (1984), portraying Jack Colton, an Indiana Jones-type adventurer. This successful teaming of Douglas with and Kathleen Turner led to a sequel, The Jewel of the Nile (1985). The three worked again in The War of the Roses (1989), a dark comedy about an ugly divorce.
• In 1987, Douglas made two films that reflected a much darker side: Fatal Attraction, in which he played an adulterer stalked by an ex-lover played by  and Oliver Stone’s Wall Street, in which he played the corporate raider Gordon Gekko, whose trademark slogan is “Greed is good.” For this role, Douglas won an Academy Award for Best Actor. He continued exploring his dark side years later, co-starring with Sharon Stone in the thriller Basic Instinct in 1992.
• In 1988, Douglas formed a production company, Stonebridge Entertainment, Inc., which produced Joel Schumacher’s Flatliners (1990) and Richard Donner’s Radio Flyer (1992).
• In 1993, he produced Made in America, then starred as a s*xually harassed man in Michael Crichton’s Disclosure (1994), and as the titular commander-in-chief in Rob Reiner’s The American President (1995), co-starring Annette Bening.
• In 1994, he signed a development deal at Paramount that included The Ghost and the Darkness (1996), The Game (1997), and A Perfect Murder (1998). He executive produced The Rainmaker (1997), starring  as well as John Woo’s 1997 action film, Face/Off.
• Douglas earned critical acclaim for his starring role as a rumpled novelist and English professor in Wonder Boys (2000). In the fall of 2001, Douglas headlined the thriller Don’t Say a Word, co-starring  in the film.
• Two years later, he has featured in It Runs in the Family (2003), alongside his famous father, his mother, and his son, Cameron. The film, which fared poorly at the box office, told the story of a multi-generational clan trying to get along.
• Following in his father’s footsteps, in 2004, Douglas was honored as the recipient of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association’s Cecil B. DeMille Award for his “outstanding contribution to the entertainment field.”
• In 2010, Douglas announced that he would be reprising his role as Gordon Gekko in Wall Street 2: Money Never Sleeps. The film, also starring Shia LaBeouf and Carey Mulligan, was released in the United States that September.
• Douglas went on to work on the biopic Behind the Candelabra, starring in the film as the famous 1950s and 1960s entertainer Wladziu Liberace. Damon played his love interest in the critically acclaimed 2013 television movie. Douglas won an Emmy Award for his portrayal of the famed entertainer.
• He also filmed the movie Last Vegas (2013) with several Hollywood legends, including Robert De Niro, Morgan Freeman, and Kevin Kline. The following year, Douglas starred opposite  in And So It Goes and the thriller Beyond the Reach.
• In 2015, he starred as biochemist Hank Pym in the Marvel superhero action/comedy Ant-Man and reprised his role in the sequel Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018).

Movies List
1966	Cast a Giant Shadow
1969	Hail, Hero!
1970	Adam at 6 A.M.
1971	Summertree
1972	Napoleon and Samantha
1975	One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
1978	Coma
1979	The China Syndrome Running
1980	It’s My Turn
1983	The Star Chamber
1984	Romancing the Stone Starman
1985	The Jewel of the Nile A Chorus Line
1987	Fatal Attraction Wall Street
1989	Black Rain The War of the Roses
1990	Flatliners
1991	Stone Cold Double Impact Eyes of an Angel
1992	Shining Through Radio Flyer Basic Instinct
1993	Falling Down Made in America
1994	Disclosure
1995	The American President
1996	The Ghost and the Darkness
1997	Face/Off The Game The Rainmaker
1998	A Perfect Murder
2000	Wonder Boys Traffic
2001	One Night at McCool’s Don’t Say a Word
2003	It Runs in the Family The In-Laws
2006	The Sentinel You, Me and Dupree
2007	King of California
2009	Ghosts of Girlfriends Past Beyond a Reasonable Doubt Solitary Man
2010	Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps
2011	Haywire
2013	Last Vegas
2014	And So It Goes Beyond the Reach
2015	Ant-Man
2017	Unlocked Flatliners
2018	Animal World We Have Always Lived in the Castle Ant-Man and the Wasp
2019	Avengers: Endgame
TV Shows & Serials List
1969	CBS Playhouse
1971	The F.B.I. Medical Center
1972	When Michael Calls
1972–1976	The Streets of San Francisco
1980	Celebrity Challenge of the Sexes
1986–1987	Starman
1988	World’s Greatest Stunts: A Tribute to Hollywood’s Stuntmen
1990	If Dolphins Could Talk That’s What Friends Are For: Arista Records 15th Anniversary Concert Tribute to John Lennon The Earth Day Special
1992	Oliver Stone: Inside Out
1993	Rock the Vote
1997	Burt Lancaster
1998	To Life! America Celebrates Israel’s 50th Where It’s At: The Rolling Stone State of the Union
2000	We All Dream of Oz
2001	Independence Day 2001
2002	Will & Grace Liberty’s Kids
2003	What’s Going On? Freedom: A History of US
2005	A Father A Son- Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
2011	Phineas and Ferb
2013	Behind the Candelabra
2014	Richard Attenborough: A Life in Film
2018–present	The Kominsky Method
2019–present	Green Eggs and Ham
2021	What If?  [2]IMDB

Some unknown facts about

1. He was ranked at number #74 in Empire (UK) magazine’s “The Top 100 Movie Stars of All Time” list in October 1997.
2. In 2013, he won a Primetime Emmy Award for “Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie” for his role in Behind the Candelabra.
3. Michael’s mother is Angelic whereas his father is a Jew.
4. He got treated with tongue cancer.
5. He used to be a chain smoker which caused him cancer.
6. Douglas loves dogs.
7. His dog’s name is Figaro.