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.
Apple TV+’s limited series Lady In The Lake has added to its cast.Noah Jupe, Mike Epps, Byron Bowers Josiah Cross and Pruitt Taylor Vince are all joining the Endeavor Content-produced series ensemble cast.The casting comes after Moses Ingram joined the series, alongside star Natalie Portman, replacing Lupita Nyong’o.The series, which comes from Alma Har’el, is based on Laura Lippman’s New York Times bestselling novel.
It takes place in ’60s Baltimore, where an unsolved murder pushes housewife and mother Maddie Schwartz (Portman) to reinvent her life as an investigative journalist and sets her on a collision course with Cleo Sherwood (Ingram, a hardworking woman juggling motherhood, many jobs and a passionate commitment to advancing Baltimore’s Black progressive agenda.The cast also includes Y’Lan Noel, Mikey Madison and Brett Gelman.It marks the second Apple series for Jupe, who recently joined Michael Douglas in Franklin.
He is best known for series including The Undoing and films such as Har’el’s Honey Boy and The Quiet Place franchise.Epps is one of the stars of The Upshaws and the Uncle Buck series as well as Survivor’s Remorse.
He also starred in The Hangover franchise.Bowers is currently starring in HBO’s Irma Vep and featured with Jupe in Honey Boy but is probably best known for his role in Adult Swim’s The Eric Andre Show.
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