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 says she was paid 'a bit' for Basic Instinct as Michael Douglas made millions
express.co.ukShe added that she couldn't afford to pay for private security.Sharon went on to brand her appearance at the Cannes Film Festival a month after the film aired as "insanity."She revealed that after returning to the hotel she was staying in, all her belongings had been stolen, including her toothbrush and contact lenses.Elsewhere, the star addressed her health deterioration which she talks about in The Beauty of Living Twice.In 2001, Sharon had a terrifying brush with death when she suffered a stroke after a bleed on her brain.Sharon took a two-year break from acting, but later told Variety it took her about seven years to fully recover from the stroke."People treated me in a way that was brutally unkind," she said at the time..
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