Michael J. Fox

Canadian-American actor, comedian, author, film producer, and activist

  • Fame69.0
  • Momentum10.6
  • Wikipedia338.4K
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Born 1961 · age 65United States

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  • Age
    65
    Born 1961
  • Known for
    Zootopia 2
    2025
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Updated 2026-06-21

He played a time-traveling teenager in one of the biggest film franchises ever made, then spent the next three decades proving you can rewrite what's possible after a diagnosis most would call career-ending.

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Michael Andrew Fox, born June 9, 1961, started acting as a child in the 1970s before landing Alex P. Keaton on Family Ties in 1982 and Marty McFly in the Back to the Future trilogy starting in 1985. The films made him a global name, and he rode that momentum through Teen Wolf, The Secret of My Success, and a string of leading roles into the '90s, including a return to television on Spin City in 1996. In 1998 he disclosed a 1991 Parkinson's disease diagnosis that would have quietly ended most careers, but instead he founded The Michael J. Fox Foundation in 2000 and kept working — voice roles in…

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  • Presidential Medal of Freedom
  • lifetime achievement award
  • Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award
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Source confidence85.0
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