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.
Hollywood star Michael Douglas has taken to Instagram to issue an update about his professional acting career while addressing the conflict in Ukraine.
It comes as the Basic Instinct actor, 77, wore a knitted Ukrainian flag pocket square on the red carpet at the SAG Awards in support of the country that's under invasion by Russia.In a short clip, the award-winning actor checked in on his 998,000 followers while addressing events going on around the globe.Michael said: "So, how's everybody doing out there?"Covid's getting better, we're getting closer, possibly to a third World War..."But hey, what you going to do?" (sic) he added.A post shared by Michael Douglas (@michaelkirkdouglas)The star went to reveal his next acting project which he's taking on for an Apple TV series."I'm getting back to work, yeah," he continued."I'm going to play this guy right here, look at that," he said, while showing a picture of Benjamin Franklin on his phone.He continued: "Ben Franklin, I look just like him don't I?"I have a bit of work to do," he added, jovially."I hope everybody's having a good weekend, it's not here quite yet, but soon enough.
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