Person attributes
Let's talk about the personality of Michael Douglas.
Michael Douglas is one of the most accomplished American actors and producers in Hollywood. He has achieved impressive results. His experience in acting is more than four-sided.
From his youth, the boy was very active and was notable for being childish. For this reason, at the age of 14, he was expelled from school, because the presence of a young womanizer worried the female half of the school too much.
Being a typical representative of the "golden youth", Michael hung around idle for a long time. He bought a motorcycle and spent some time in a hippie commune.
His father was also an actor who had a strong influence on Michael's life. From his father, Michael took over the profession and, with burning eyes, lost his beloved work.
Michael's career began with television. After he moved into film and became a producer of films that received many awards.
Douglas' most prominent and notable role remains that of Gordon Gekko in the film Wall Street, which has become a cult classic for many generations. Douglas stays in an industry that changes at a dizzying pace and changes his style over time, which is the hallmark of an actor who knows his stuff.
The first role that brought Douglas fame was the role of Inspector Steve Keller in the television series "The Streets of San Francisco" (1972-1976). At this time, he convinced his father to assign him the rights to the film adaptation of the novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. Douglas produced this project, which won the Academy Award for best film of the year.
Douglas had always championed the need for nuclear disarmament and decided to dedicate his next project to this topic. The film "China Syndrome" was released in 1979 and caused a lot of noise. In addition to producing, Douglas played one of the main roles in this picture.
In 1980, the actor had an accident: he crashed while skiing down the mountain. The continuation of the film career had to be postponed for three years, during which his name had faded considerably. Inspired by the success of the Indiana Jones films, Douglas decided to return to the cinema in an adventure film of a similar kind. The result of this strategy was the action film Romancing the Stone (1984), which was highly successful commercially. A sequel soon followed, The Jewel of the Nile.
In the second half of the 1980s, Douglas played, according to many critics, three of his most prominent roles - in the films Fatal Attraction with classmate Glenn Close; Oliver Stone in Wall Street and his friend Danny DeVito in War of the Roses. Ending a decade as one of Hollywood's highest paid and most in-demand actors, Douglas resurfaced in 1992 with a high-profile and controversial role in Basic Instinct.
In 2013, Douglas received all the key US television awards (Emmy, Golden Globe, Screen Actors Guild Award) for his role as pianist Liberace in Steven Soderbergh's biopic Behind the Candelabra.
Having achieved the status of a superstar, Douglas played the most respectable role - the American president in the film of the same name. But he is much better at playing the roles not of pink romantics in love stories, but of characters at a break, requiring an extraordinary reaction, such as, for example, in the thrillers The Game or The Perfect Murder.
In 2000, Michael Douglas divorced his wife Diandra, with whom they had been together for 23 years and with whom he has a son, Keieron.
His new chosen one was the young British actress Catherine Zeta-Jones, the couple already have two children.
Rewards:
Officer of the Order of Arts and Letters (France) Order of Arts and Letters (1998)
Oscar (1976, 1988)
Golden Globe (1976, 1985, 1988, 2004, 2014, 2019)
"Cesar" (1998)
"Emmy" (2013)
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