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.
"I don’t feel like it’s settled yet. [The industry] is still in upheaval," she said. "The plates are shifting. In some ways, it’s pulled ridiculously too far. "Part of it is that I’m the mother of three young white males, so I’m looking at things that they’re experiencing, and things that my girlfriends of all different backgrounds are experiencing [and] it hasn’t quite found its steady point yet where there’s room for everybody."She added: "I'm a bad one to ask.
I always found my way. Is that privilege? It didn’t feel like it at the time, because I felt like I was in very abusive situations, but it was my responsibility to buck up, get strong."Debra told how one day on the set of An Officer and a Gentleman, a crew member came to her trailer and handed over pills she was to take to lose weight, but that she handed them back because it sounded "ridiculous".The film won the actress an Oscar nomination in 1983.
It was followed up the next year with a nomination for Terms of Endearment. Her third came for 1993's Shadowlands, opposite Anthony Hopkins.
Debra is well known for her comments on her fellow actors and she famously said Richard Gere was "like a brick wall" to act alongside.EXPRESS.CO.UK has contacted Debra for comment..
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