# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/michael-douglas
# Generated: 2026-09-01T04:58:54.815Z

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name: "Michael Douglas"
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description: "He made Gordon Gekko's \"greed is good\" a cultural shorthand, then spent decades as Hollywood's go-to for men unraveling — morally, sexually, psychologically — in roles that doubled as mirror and warning."
tagline: "American actor, producer and activist (born 1944)"
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birthDate: "1944-09-25"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Born September 25, 1944, the elder son of Kirk Douglas, he earned his drama degree from UC Santa Barbara and cut his teeth on three Emmy-nominated seasons as a homicide inspector in The Streets of San Francisco. His first producer credit became One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest — rights he'd wrested from his father — and won him the Academy Award for Best Picture in 1975. The Best Actor Oscar followed in 1987 for Wall Street, where his Gordon Gekko became the slicked-back id of an era. What followed was a run through the nerve-endings of American masculinity: The China Syndrome, Fatal Attraction, Basic Instinct, Falling Down, The American President. He won an Emmy for playing Liberace in Behind the Candelabra, a Golden Globe for The Kominsky Method, and spent eight years as Hank Pym in the Marvel machine. He sits on the board of the Nuclear Threat Initiative, was named a UN Messenger of Peace in 1998, and has been married to Catherine Zeta-Jones since 2000. In 2025, he announced his retirement, citing age and a desire for more time with family.