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All All. Sign In. Michael Kirk Douglas. A legendary actor with 50 celebrated years of film, television and producing experience, Michael Douglas is known for his era-defining roles and enduring cultural impact. In addition to his career accomplishments, Douglas has remained a steadfast public servant, activist and philanthropist dedicated to peace and human welfare, democracy, gun control advocacy, support of the arts and support of nuclear disarmament.

In , former United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan appointed Douglas as a Messenger of Peace for his commitment on disarmament issues, including nuclear non-proliferation and halting the illicit trade in small arms and light weapons.

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Since his earliest acting work on Hail, Hero! He is most known for his iconic screen roles, like his Academy Award-winning turn as Gordon Gekko Wall Street as well as the critically and commercially acclaimed films Fatal Attraction , The American President , Basic Instinct , Traffic and Romancing the Stone He is also a prolific producer with credits on politically relevant and socially influential motion pictures like One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest , The China Syndrome , Traffic the television series: The Kominsky Method and an upcoming limited series where Douglas portrays Benjamin Franklin during his nine years in France lobbying for French aid for the American Revolution.

His paternal grandparents were Belarusian Jewish immigrants, while his mother was born in Bermuda, the daughter of a local Attorney General, Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Melville Dill; Diana's family had long been established in both Bermuda and the United States. Douglas's parents divorced when he was six, and he went to live with his mother and her new husband.

Only seeing Kirk on holidays, Michael attended Eaglebrook School in Deerfield, Massachusetts, where he was about a year younger than all of his classmates.