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 is opening up about one of his biggest struggles as a father. Speaking to AARP the Magazine, the "Wall Street" actor, 76, got candid about son Cameron’s drug abuse and revealed that he learned to set boundaries as a result. "Set boundaries, big and small.
My older son, Cameron, was a drug addict and ended up serving seven-and-a-half years in federal prison," the actor told the outlet, per Entertainment Tonight. "That was hard, having to protect myself and my family and tell my older son that if you feel like I'm pulling away from you, I am, because I'm afraid you're either going to kill yourself or kill somebody else. "That experience with Cameron I don't wish on anybody," Douglas added of his son, who he shares with.
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