Michael Douglas Biography

Biography

as a swashbuckling opportunist Jack T. Colten who is promised US $375 in traveler's checks by Romance novelist Joan Wilder who flies down to Colombia from New York in return for helping her find her way to Cartagena. The Jack T.Colten role he played in the film had definitely introduced Michael as a capable and likable leading man, gave him chances to play in some other movies and films. Appeared to be true that in 1987 he starred in "Fatal Attraction," a horror film tells the story of a married man who has an affair, only to discover that the woman with whom he had the affair is not ready to let it end.

In 1992, Michael got his another chance playing in another success film production, Basic Instinct, a thriller focuses on the sex and violence where he portrayed Nick Curran, a San Francisco homicide detective investigating the murder of rock and roll musician Johnny Boz. Acted in both Fatal Attraction and Basic Instinct, many people tend to perceive Michael was being typecast in the 'Man against Woman' type roles.

At first he did nothing to the gossip, but at the end he tried to break away this image by ...

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playing in the 1995 movies "The American President" and in a 1996 film production entitled "The Ghost and the Darkness." Still this image continued when he started dating the 25 years younger beauty, Catherine Zeta-Jones, even after their marriage held on 18 November 2000. From the second marriage, Michael gets two another children named Cameron Douglas and Dylan Michael, for whom he then tries to settle down to become a more 'family-oriented' actor. Be more family oriented doesn't mean the end of Michael acting career that he then in the year 2000 starred in the comedy Wonder Boys and also in 2003 movie Runs in the Family, from which he seemed to one more time looked for a career change.

Won't give up his destiny, Michael insisted trying to play at light-hearted comedies, like a re-make The In-Laws released in 2003, which he hoped could break away the reputation he had acquired in the past. Though he hadn't win his reputation yet, still he gained some awards for his good deed in filming. Some awards Michael has got, for example ranked #74 in 1997 Empire UK magazine's "The Top 100 Movie Stars of All Time" list; received an Academy Award ...