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.
Sharon Stone reveals that her iconic role in Basic Instinct was no accident but the result of a master plan which involved posing naked for Playboy magazine. The 62-year-old rose to fame in the erotic thriller starring as a novelist who seduces a detective played by Michael Douglas.
It propelled Sharon as a Hollywood sex symbol and it was all part of her ‘strategy’. Speaking to Drew Barrymore on her talk show, Sharon explained: ‘I’m more of a logic person and a strategy person. ‘Even when I wanted Basic Instinct, I decided I was gonna do a Playboy article specifically because I wanted to get this film Basic Instinct.’ She recalled the fame she earned after her performance in the 1992 thriller and added: ‘I didn’t realise what would happen.
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