Michael Kirk Douglas (born September 25, 1944) is an American actor and producer. He has received numerous accolades, including two Academy Awards, five Golden Globe Awards, a Primetime Emmy Award, the Cecil B. DeMille Award, and the AFI Life Achievement Award.
The elder son of Kirk Douglas and Diana Dill, Douglas received his Bachelor of Arts in Drama from the University of California, Santa Barbara. His early acting roles included film, stage, and television productions. Douglas first achieved prominence for his performance in the ABC police procedural television series The Streets of San Francisco, for which he received three consecutive Emmy Award nominations.
Oscar-nominated “Maestro” in New York last November.Turner, 69, wore a long black overcoat and used a cane as she walked downtown on Canal Street at the beginning of the week.
Turner’s heyday at the movies was during the 1980s, when the actress was propelled to superstardom by the thriller “Body Heat.” She then made a slew of films over that decade, such as “Prizzi’s Honor” and “The Accidental Tourist.” But she’s perhaps best remembered for playing an adventuring novelist in 1984’s “Romancing the Stone,” directed by Robert Zemeckis, and its sequel “The Jewel of the Nile” a year later.
In both, her co-star was Michael Douglas.Turner admitted in an interview last year that she and Douglas, who was separated from his first wife, Diandra Luker, very nearly put the romance in “Romancing.”“I think we might have been falling in love,” Turner told The Guardian. “But then Diandra flew down and made it clear that she did not consider Michael to be available.
So that ended that because I can’t get involved with another woman’s relationship. But oh my, that attention is delicious!”She didn’t get the man, but soon after she got an Oscar nod — Best Actress for 1986’s “Peggy Sue Got Married,” directed by Francis Ford Coppola and also starring Nicolas Cage.Later in the aughts, while taking on smaller film and TV roles, Turner became a well regarded stage actress.
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