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 has revealed that she was told she wasn't sexy enough to break into Hollywood – just weeks before she was cast in Basic Instinct.The 1992 film cast Sharon as Catherine Tramell, who attempts to seduce Michael Douglas' Nick Curran during a famous interrogation scene.The film saw Sharon established as one of Hollywood's sexiest talents - but only weeks before she had been told that she wasn't sexy enough to make it as a star.Writing in her autobiography, The Beauty of Living Twice, the 63-year-old recalls: "My manager at the time, had told me that no one would hire me because everyone said I wasn't sexy."I wasn't, as they liked to say in Hollywood at the time, 'f**kable'."In the book's excerpt, obtained by Vanity Fair, Sharon.
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