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.
Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner became a new-age version of Tracy and Hepburn by virtue of their screen team-ups in Romancing the Stone, Jewel of the Nile and The War of the Roses.In the second season of The Kominsky Method they were reunited again, however briefly, in an episode of the hit Netflix comedy series.
When co-star Alan Arkin left the show before the third and final season, creator Chuck Lorre and Douglas decided to ask Turner to take on a greater role and return as Douglas character Sandy’s salty ex-wife.
It was a no brainer as Douglas explained to me during the Netflix virtual panel session at Deadline’s Contenders Television awards-season event.“Because she killed it in her one scene we had together from last year, she was
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