Michael Douglas has an estimated net worth of $188 million dollars
Michael Douglas is an American actor and producer with an estimated net worth of $188 million. He has won two Academy Awards-as producer of Best Picture in 1975′s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest and Best Actor for his role as Gordon Gekko in Wall Street (1987). He is 5’10″ and weighs 170 pounds. Michael Kirk Douglas was born on September 25, 1944 in New Brunswick, New Jersey. Born into Hollywood royalty – he is the oldest son of famed actor Kirk Douglas and actress Diana Love Dill – and went through schooling in New York, Massachusetts, Connecticut before receiving his college degree from the University of California, Santa Barbara. He would then study acting in New York City.
Douglas first made his performing mark in television with a breakthrough role in CBS’s Playhouse in 1969. He quickly followed that with an extended role on The Streets of San Francisco from 1972 to 1976. From early on he was involved behind the camera as well, as he got the rights to the novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest in 1975 and went on to produce the film, earning his first Oscar along the way. He would continue to act in successful movies in the 1970s, including Coma, Running and The China Syndrome (which he also produced).
Although unquestionably successful, Douglas found his greatest fame starting in 1984 when he started in the romantic comedy Romancing the Stone, alongside Kathleen Turner. He reprised the role the next year in The Jewel of the Nile, and had become one of Hollywood’s leading men. That would lead to more iconic roles like in Fatal Attraction and eventually as” Gordon Gekko” in Oliver Stone’s Wall Street. He continued to play edgy roles, including Basic Instinct (1992) and in Disclosure (1994). Douglas’s film and producing credit would continue to produce remarkable success with hits like The American President, The Game, Wonder Boys, Traffic and eventually in the reprisal of his role as Gekko in Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps in 2010. He won an Emmy for his performance in the lead role of HBO’s Behind the Candelabra, the story about Liberace, in 2013. Douglas was married for the first time to Diandra Luker in 1977 but divorced in 1995. He then married actress Catherine Zeta-Jones in 2000, and remain married despite well-publicized relationship troubles. He has three children.
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