Michael Douglas opens up about his health battles and aging
In 2023، Michael Douglas will turn 79، and he can definitely look back on a fantastic cinematic career with multiple iconic movies under his belt.
Michael got a feel for the acting business at an early age. He used to spend summers together with his father، Kirk Douglas، who was more often than not shooting films. He hung out with his father on movie sets، and in his teens، he knew he wanted to be an actor، asking his father to find him some roles of his own.
Michael Douglas made his debut in Cast a Giant Shadow – in which his father also starred – where he played the role of an uncredited driver. Before
his first role in a film، Michael Douglas had a brief part in the television show The F.B.I. Producer Quinn Martin was impressed، and Douglas then got a part in the new police series The Streets of San Francisco. The show premiered in 1972، and would turn out to be Douglas’s big breakthrough role.
In 1975، Michael produced the classic One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest، a movie that put him among some of the greatest. The film earned several Academy Awards – Douglas himself won an Academy Award for Best Picture.
Michael would go on to become a major Hollywood star following his
performances as Gordon Gecko in Wall Street (1987)، Falling Down (1993)،