Michael J. Fox
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Born | Michael Andrew Fox June 9, 1961 Edmonton, Alberta, Canada |
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Michael Andrew Fox
In 1998, Fox disclosed his 1991 diagnosis of Parkinson's disease. He subsequently became an advocate for finding a cure, and founded the Michael J. Fox Foundation in 2000 to help fund research. Worsening symptoms forced him to reduce his acting work.
Fox voiced the lead roles in the Stuart Little films (1999–2005) and the animated film Atlantis: The Lost Empire (2001). He continued to make guest appearances on television, including comedy-drama Rescue Me (2009), the legal drama The Good Wife (2010–2016) and spinoff The Good Fight (2020), and the comedy series Curb Your Enthusiasm (2011, 2017). Fox's last major role was the lead on the short-lived sitcom The Michael J. Fox Show (2013–2014). He officially retired in 2021 due to his declining health.[2]
Fox won five
Early life
Fox was born in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, on June 9, 1961,[4] the son of Phyllis[5] (née Piper) and William Nelson Fox.[6] William was a 25-year veteran of the Canadian Forces who later became a police dispatcher,[7][8] while Phyllis was a payroll clerk and actress.[7][8] Fox is of English and Irish descent, with his maternal grandparents being from England and Belfast, Northern Ireland.[9][10]
Fox's family lived in various cities and towns across Canada due to his father's career.
Fox was discovered by producer Ronald Shedlo and made his American debut in the television film Letters from Frank, credited under the name "Michael Fox". However, when he registered with the Screen Actors Guild, he discovered that Michael Fox, a veteran character actor, was already registered under that name.[17] Fox explained in his autobiography Lucky Man: A Memoir:
The Screen Actors Guild prohibits any two members from working under the same stage name, and they already had a 'Michael Fox' on the books. My middle name is Andrew, but 'Andrew Fox' or 'Andy Fox' didn't cut it for me. 'Michael A. Fox' was even worse, the word fox having recently come into use as a synonym for attractive. (Presumptuous?) It also sounded uncomfortably Canadian – Michael Eh? Fox – but maybe I was just being oversensitive. And then I remembered one of my favorite character actors, Michael J. Pollard, the guileless accomplice in Bonnie and Clyde. I stuck in the J, which sometimes I tell people stands for either Jenuine or Jenius, and resubmitted my forms.[12]
Acting career
Early career
Fox's first feature film roles were
When Fox left the television series
As a result of working on Family Ties, as well as his acting in Teen Wolf and Back to the Future, Fox became a teen idol. The VH1 television series The Greatest later named him among their "50 Greatest Teen Idols".[27]
Film career
In January 1985, Fox was cast to replace
Zemeckis quickly replaced Stoltz with Fox, whose schedule was now more open with the return of Baxter. During filming, Fox rehearsed for Family Ties from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., then rushed to the Back to the Future set where he would rehearse and shoot until 2:30 a.m. This schedule lasted for two full months. Back to the Future was both a commercial and critical success. The film spent eight consecutive weekends as the number-one grossing movie at the US box office in 1985, and eventually earned a worldwide total of $381.11 million.[29] Variety applauded the performances, opining that Fox and his co-star Christopher Lloyd imbued Marty and Doc Brown's friendship with a quality reminiscent of King Arthur and Merlin.[30] The film was followed by two successful sequels, Back to the Future Part II (1989) and Back to the Future Part III (1990), which were produced at the same time but released separately.[31]
During and immediately after the Back to the Future trilogy, Fox starred in Teen Wolf (1985), Light of Day (1987), The Secret of My Success (1987), Bright Lights, Big City (1988), and Casualties of War (1989).
In The Secret of My Success, Fox played a recent graduate from Kansas State University who moves to New York City, where he deals with the ups and downs of the business world. The film was successful at the box office, grossing $110 million worldwide.[32] Roger Ebert in the Chicago Sun-Times wrote "Fox provides a fairly desperate center for the film. It could not have been much fun for him to follow the movie's arbitrary shifts of mood, from sitcom to slapstick, from sex farce to boardroom brawls."[33]
In Bright Lights, Big City, Fox played a fact-checker for a New York magazine, who spends his nights partying with alcohol and drugs. The film received mixed reviews, with Hal Hinson in The Washington Post criticizing Fox by claiming that "he was the wrong actor for the job".[34] Meanwhile, Roger Ebert praised the actor's performance: "Fox is very good in the central role (he has a long drunken monologue that is the best thing he has ever done in a movie)".[35] During the shooting of Bright Lights, Big City, Fox co-starred again with Tracy Pollan, his on-screen girlfriend from Family Ties.[36]
Fox then starred in Casualties of War, a dark and violent war drama about the Vietnam War, alongside Sean Penn. Casualties of War was not a major box office hit, but Fox was praised for his performance. Don Willmott wrote: "Fox, only one year beyond his Family Ties sitcom silliness, rises to the challenges of acting as the film's moral voice and sharing scenes with the always intimidating Penn."[37] While Family Ties was ending, his production company Snowback Productions set up a two-year production pact at Paramount Pictures to develop film and television projects.[38]
In 1991, he starred in Doc Hollywood, a romantic comedy about a talented medical doctor who decides to become a plastic surgeon. While moving from Washington, D.C. to Los Angeles, he winds up as a doctor in a small southern town in South Carolina. Michael Caton-Jones, of Time Out, described Fox in the film as "at his frenetic best".[39] The Hard Way was also released in 1991, with Fox playing an undercover actor learning from police officer James Woods. After being privately diagnosed with Parkinson's disease in 1991 and being cautioned he had "ten good working years left",[7] Fox hastily signed a three-film contract,[citation needed] appearing in For Love or Money (1993), Life with Mikey (1993), and Greedy (1994). The mid-1990s saw Fox play smaller supporting roles in The American President (1995) and Mars Attacks! (1996).
His last major film role was in The Frighteners (1996), directed by Peter Jackson. Fox's performance received critical praise, Kenneth Turan in the Los Angeles Times wrote; "The film's actors are equally pleasing. Both Fox, in his most successful starring role in some time, and [Trini] Alvarado, who looks rather like Andie MacDowell here, have no difficulty getting into the manic spirit of things."[40]
He voiced the American Bulldog Chance in
Later career and retirement
In 2004, Fox guest starred in two episodes of the comedy-drama
In 2009, Fox appeared in five episodes of the television series
In August 2012, NBC announced that Fox would star in The Michael J. Fox Show, loosely based on his life. It was granted a 22-episode commitment from the network and premiered in September 2013,[52] but was taken off the air after 15 episodes and later cancelled.[53]
Fox has made several appearances in other media. At the 2010 Winter Olympics closing ceremony in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, he delivered comedy monologues, along with William Shatner and Catherine O'Hara, in the "I am Canadian" part of the show.[54]
Despite sound-alike
Fox appeared in five episodes of the second season of the ABC political drama Designated Survivor, in the recurring role of Ethan West, investigating whether the president was fit to continue in the job.[56][57]
In 2020, Fox retired from acting due to the increasing unreliability of his speech.[7] Fox's memoir, No Time Like the Future: An Optimist Considers Mortality, was released that November. In the book, Fox explained that, "not being able to speak reliably is a game-breaker for an actor" and that he was experiencing memory loss. Fox wrote, "There is a time for everything, and my time of putting in a 12-hour workday, and memorizing seven pages of dialogue, is best behind me...I enter a second retirement. That could change, because everything changes. But if this is the end of my acting career, so be it."[2]
In 2021, Fox appeared in one episode of the television series Expedition: Back to the Future and in the animated film Back Home Again.[citation needed]
Other work
Fox served as an executive producer of Spin City alongside co-creators
Fox has authored four books: Lucky Man: A Memoir (2002), Always Looking Up: The Adventures of an Incurable Optimist (2009), A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Future: Twists and Turns and Lessons Learned (2010), and No Time Like the Future: An Optimist Considers Mortality (2020).[58]
Personal life
Fox met his wife, Tracy Pollan, when she played the role of his girlfriend, Ellen, on Family Ties.[7] They were married on July 16, 1988, at West Mountain Inn in Arlington, Vermont.[60] The couple have four children: son Sam Michael (born May 30, 1989),[61] twin daughters Aquinnah Kathleen and Schuyler Frances (born February 15, 1995),[62] and daughter Esmé Annabelle (born November 3, 2001).[63] Fox holds dual Canadian-US citizenship.[64] He provided a light-hearted segment during the 2010 Winter Olympics' closing ceremony in Vancouver, British Columbia on February 28, 2010, when he expressed how proud he is to be Canadian.[54] On June 4, 2010, the city of Burnaby, British Columbia granted him the Freedom of the City.[14] Fox and his family live primarily in Manhattan.[65] The family owns a second home in Quogue, New York.[66]
Fox battled alcoholism during the onset of his Parkinson's diagnosis, but has been sober since 1992.[67][68]
Fox endorsed Democrat Pete Buttigieg prior to the 2020 United States presidential election.[69]
Parkinson's disease
Fox started displaying symptoms of early-onset
After his diagnosis, Fox began drinking heavily and grew depressed.[71] He eventually sought help and stopped drinking altogether.[72] He went public with his Parkinson's disease in 1998, and has become a strong advocate for Parkinson's disease research. His foundation, The Michael J. Fox Foundation, was created to help advance every promising research path to curing Parkinson's disease.[7][5] Since 2010, he has led a $100-million effort, which is the Foundation's landmark observational study, to discover the biological markers of Parkinson's disease with the Parkinson's Progression Markers Initiative (PPMI).[73]
Fox manages the symptoms of his Parkinson's disease with the drug carbidopa/levodopa,[74] and he had a thalamotomy in 1998.[75]
His first book, Lucky Man, focused on how, after seven years of denial of the disease, he set up the Michael J. Fox Foundation, stopped drinking and became an advocate for people living with Parkinson's disease.[76] In Lucky Man, Fox wrote that he did not take his medication prior to his testimony before the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee in 1999 (partial C-SPAN video clip).[77]
I had made a deliberate choice to appear before the subcommittee without medication. It seemed to me that this occasion demanded that my testimony about the effects of the disease, and the urgency we as a community were feeling, be seen as well as heard. For people who had never observed me in this kind of shape, the transformation must have been startling.[5]
In an interview with NPR in April 2002,[74] Fox explained what he does when he becomes symptomatic:
Well, actually, I've been erring on the side of caution—I think 'erring' is actually the right word—in that I've been medicating perhaps too much, in the sense [that] ... the symptoms ... people see in some of these interviews that [I] have been on are actually
Sinemet in my system and, in some cases, too much. But to me, it's preferable. It's not representative of what I'm like in my everyday life. I get a lot of people with Parkinson's coming up to me saying, 'You take too much medication.' I say, 'Well, you sit across from Larry King and see if you want to tempt it.'
In 2006, Fox starred in a
As you might know, I care deeply about stem cell research. In Missouri, you can elect Claire McCaskill, who shares my hope for cures. Unfortunately, Senator Jim Talent opposes expanding stem cell research. Senator Talent even wanted to criminalize the science that gives us the chance for hope. They say all politics is local, but that's not always the case. What you do in Missouri matters to millions of Americans, Americans like me.
The New York Times called it "one of the most powerful and talked about political advertisements in years" and polls indicated that the commercial had a measurable impact on the way voters voted, in an election that McCaskill won.[80] His second book, Always Looking Up: The Adventures of an Incurable Optimist, describes his life between 1999 and 2009, with much of the book centered on how Fox got into campaigning for stem cell research.[76] On March 31, 2009, Fox appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show with Mehmet Oz to discuss his condition as well as his book, his family and his primetime special, which aired May 7, 2009, (Michael J. Fox: Adventures of an Incurable Optimist).[81]
His work led him to be named one of the
On May 31, 2012, he received an honorary degree of
In 2016, his organization created a raffle to raise awareness for Parkinson's disease and raised $6.75 million, with the help of Nike via two auctions, one in Hong Kong and the other in London.[87]
At the 2022 Governors Awards, Fox was awarded the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award for his efforts in fighting Parkinson's, having raised over $1 billion for research.[88][89] The award was presented by friend Woody Harrelson.
In a 2023 interview with
His life is the subject of Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie, a 2023 documentary film by Davis Guggenheim for Apple TV+.
Filmography
Film
Year | Title | Role | Notes | Ref(s). |
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1980 | Midnight Madness | Scott Larson | ||
1982 | Class of 1984 | Arthur | ||
1985 | Back to the Future | Marty McFly | ||
Teen Wolf | Scott Howard | |||
1987 | Light of Day | Joe Rasnick | ||
The Secret of My Success | Brantley Foster/Carlton Whitfield | |||
1988 | Bright Lights, Big City | Jamie Conway | ||
1989 | Casualties of War | PFC. Max Eriksson | ||
Back to the Future Part II | Marty McFly / Marty McFly Jr. / Marlene McFly | |||
1990 | Back to the Future Part III | Marty McFly / Seamus McFly | ||
1991 | The Hard Way | Nick "Nicky" Lang | ||
Doc Hollywood | Dr. Benjamin "Ben" Stone | |||
1993 | Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey | Chance/Narrator | Voice | |
Life with Mikey | Michael "Mikey" Chapman | |||
For Love or Money | Doug Ireland | |||
1994 | Where the Rivers Flow North | Clayton Farnsworth | ||
Greedy | Daniel "Danny" McTeague Jr. | |||
1995 | Coldblooded | Tim Alexander | Also producer | |
Blue in the Face | Pete Maloney | |||
The American President | Lewis Rothschild | |||
1996 | Homeward Bound II: Lost in San Francisco | Chance | Voice | |
The Frighteners | Frank Bannister | |||
Mars Attacks! | Jason Stone | |||
1999 | Stuart Little | Stuart Little | Voice | |
2001 | Atlantis: The Lost Empire | Milo James Thatch | ||
2002 | Interstate 60 | Mr. Baker | Cameo | |
Stuart Little 2 | Stuart Little | Voice | ||
2005 | Stuart Little 3: Call of the Wild | Voice, direct to video | ||
2013 | Drew: The Man Behind the Poster | Himself | Documentary | |
2014 | Annie | Cameo | ||
2015 | Being Canadian | Documentary | ||
Back in Time | [91] | |||
Mr Calzaghe | ||||
2016 | A.R.C.H.I.E. | A.R.C.H.I.E. | Voice | |
2018 | A.R.C.H.I.E. 2: Mission Impawsible | |||
2019 | See You Yesterday | Mr. Lockhart | Cameo | |
2021 | Back Home Again | Michael J. Bird | Voice | |
2023 | Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie | Himself | Documentary |
Television
Year | Title | Functioned as | Role | Notes | Ref(s). | ||
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Actor | Director | Executive Producer | |||||
1978 | The Magic Lie | Yes | No | No | Nicky | Episode: "The Master" | |
Leo and Me | Jamie Romano | 12 episodes | |||||
Witch of Westminster Crossing | Harley | Television short film | |||||
1979 | Letters from Frank | Ricky | Television film | ||||
Lou Grant | Paul Stone | Episode: "Kids" | |||||
1980 | Family | Richard Topol | Episode: "Such a Fine Line" | ||||
Here's Boomer | Jackie | Episode: "Tell 'Em Boomer Sent You" | |||||
Trapper John, M.D. | Elliot Schweitzer | Episode: "Brain Child" | |||||
1980–1981 | Palmerstown, U.S.A. | Willy-Joe Hall | 11 episodes | ||||
1982 | Teachers Only | Jeff | Episode: "The Make Up Test" | ||||
1982–1989 | Family Ties | Alex P. Keaton | 176 episodes | ||||
1983 | The Love Boat | Jimmy | Episode: "He Ain't Heavy" | ||||
High School U.S.A. | Jay-Jay Manners | Television film | |||||
1983–1984 | The $25,000 Pyramid
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Himself | 30 episodes | ||||
1984 | Night Court | Eddie Simms | Episode: "Santa Goes Downtown" | ||||
The Homemade Comedy Special | Host | Television special | |||||
Don't Ask Me, Ask God | Future Son | ||||||
1985 | Family Ties Vacation | Alex P. Keaton | Television film | ||||
Poison Ivy | Dennis Baxter | ||||||
1986 | David Letterman's 2nd Annual Holiday Film Festival | Yes | Himself | Short film; segment: "The Iceman Hummeth"; also writer | |||
1987 | Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam | No | Pfc. Raymond Griffiths | Voice, documentary | |||
The Return of Bruno | Himself | Television documentary film | |||||
Muppet Babies | Alex P. Keaton | Voice, episode: "This Little Piggy Went to Hollywood" | |||||
1988 | Mickey's 60th Birthday | Television special | |||||
1990 | Sex, Buys & Advertising | Himself | |||||
1991 | Saturday Night Live | Host | Episode: "Michael J. Fox/The Black Crowes" | ||||
Tales from the Crypt | Yes | Prosecutor | Episode: "The Trap" | ||||
1992 | Brooklyn Bridge | No | n/a | Episode: "Rainy Day" | |||
Shelley Duvall's Bedtime Stories | Yes | No | Narrator | Episode: "There's a Nightmare in My Closet" | |||
1994 | Don't Drink the Water | Axel Magee | Television film | ||||
1996–2001 | Spin City | Yes | Mike Flaherty | 103 episodes | |||
1997 | The Chris Rock Show | No | Himself | Episode: "Jesse Jackson/Rakim"; Uncredited | |||
1999 | Anna Says | No | Yes | n/a | |||
2002 | Otherwise Engaged | Pilot episode | |||||
Clone High | Yes | No | Gandhi's Remaining Kidney | Voice, episode: "Escape to Beer Mountain: A Rope of Sand" | |||
2003 | Hench at Home | No | Yes | n/a | Also writer | ||
2004 | Scrubs | Yes | No | Dr. Kevin Casey | 2 episodes | ||
2005 | Saving Milly | Himself | Television film; Uncredited | ||||
2006 | Boston Legal | Daniel Post | 6 episodes | ||||
2009 | Rescue Me | Dwight | 5 episodes | ||||
The Magic 7 | Marcel Maggot | Voice, television film | |||||
2010–2016 | The Good Wife | Louis Canning | 26 episodes | ||||
2011 | Phineas and Ferb | Michael / Werewolf | Voice, episode: "The Curse of Candace" | ||||
2011 & 2017 | Curb Your Enthusiasm | Himself | 2 episodes | ||||
2013–2014 | The Michael J. Fox Show | Yes | Mike Henry | 22 episodes | |||
2015 | Jimmy Kimmel Live! | No | Marty McFly | Skit celebrating Back to the Future | [92] | ||
2016 | Nightcap | Himself | Episode: "The Cannon" | ||||
2018 | Designated Survivor | Ethan West | 5 episodes | [56] | |||
2019 | Corner Gas Animated | Himself | Voice, episode: "Dream Waiver" | ||||
2020 | The Good Fight
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Louis Canning | 2 episodes | ||||
2021 | Expedition: Back to the Future | Himself | Episode: "Great Josh!" |
Video games
Year | Title | Voice role | Notes |
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2011 | Back to the Future: The Game | William McFly / Future Marty McFly | Episode: "Outatime" |
2015 | Lego Dimensions | Marty McFly |
Web
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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2020 | "The Origins of Holiday" (Lil Nas X song trailer) | Marty McFly |
Awards and honors
Over his career Fox won five
- 2000: Honoured by the Family Television Awards for Acting.
- 2000: Inducted into Canada's Walk of Fame, located in Toronto, Ontario, which acknowledges the achievements and accomplishments of successful Canadians.[93]
- December 16, 2002: Received the 2209th Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in recognition of his contributions to the motion picture industry, presented to him by the Chamber of Commerce.[94]
- 2005: Received the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement.[95][96]
- 2011: Honoured with the Golden Camera Awardfor Lifetime Achievement – International.
- 2010: Appointed Officer of the Order of Canada – The Officer O.C. recognises national service or achievement.[97]
- 2010: Received the National Association of Broadcasters Distinguished Service Award.[98]
- 2010: He received an honorary doctorate from the Karolinska Institute
- 2013: Honoured with the Golden Apple Award by the Casting Society of America.
- 2021: Doctor of Fine Arts, honoris causa, from Simon Fraser University.[99]
- 2022: Received the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award from 95th Academy Awards[100]
Books
- Fox, Michael J. (2002). Lucky Man: A Memoir. New York: Hyperion. ISBN 978-0-7868-6764-6.
- Fox, Michael J. (2009). Always Looking Up: The Adventures of an Incurable Optimist. New York: Hyperion. ISBN 978-1-4013-0338-9.
- Fox, Michael J. (2010). A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Future: Twists and Turns and Lessons Learned. New York: Hyperion. ISBN 978-1-4013-2386-8.
- Fox, Michael J. (2020). No Time Like the Future: An Optimist Considers Mortality. New York: Flatiron Books. ISBN 978-1-2502-6561-6.
Explanatory notes
- ^ Fox retired from acting in 2020, but still makes public appearances as an activist.
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