Michael J. Fox - Wikipedia. Michael J. Fox. OCFox at the Lotusphere in 2. Born. Michael Andrew Fox(1. June 9, 1. 96. 1 (age 5. Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Residence. Manhattan, New York, U. S. Citizenship. Canadian and American (dual)Occupation.

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Children. 4Michael Andrew Fox, OC (born June 9, 1. Michael J. Fox, is a Canadian- American[1] actor, author, producer, and activist. With a film and television career spanning from the 1. Fox starred in the Back to the Future trilogy, where he portrayed Marty Mc. Fly. Other notable roles have included Mike Flaherty on the ABCsitcom.

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Spin City (1. 99. Emmys, four Golden Globes, and two Screen Actors Guild Awards and his portrayal of Alex P. Keaton on the American sitcom Family Ties. Fox was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease in 1. Fox semi- retired from acting in 2. He has since become an advocate for research toward finding a cure; he created the Michael J.

Fox Foundation, and on March 5, 2. Sweden's Karolinska Institute gave him an honoris causa doctorate for his work in advocating a cure for Parkinson's disease.[2]Since 1. Fox has mainly worked as a voice- over actor in films such as Stuart Little and Disney's Atlantis: The Lost Empire. On the CBS TV show The Good Wife, he earned Emmy nominations for three consecutive years for his recurring role as crafty attorney Louis Canning.[3] Fox has also taken recurring guest roles and cameo appearances in Boston Legal, Scrubs, Curb Your Enthusiasm and Rescue Me. He has released three books: Lucky Man: A Memoir (2. Always Looking Up: The Adventures of an Incurable Optimist (2.

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A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Future: Twists and Turns and Lessons Learned (2. He was appointed an Officer of the Order of Canada in 2. He also was inducted into Canada's Walk of Fame in 2. Early life[edit]Michael Andrew Fox was born on June 9, 1. Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, to Phyllis (née Piper), an actress/payroll clerk, and William Fox, a police officer and Canadian Forces member.[6][7]Fox's family lived in various cities and towns across Canada because of his father's career.[6] The family finally moved to the Vancouver suburb of Burnaby, British Columbia, when his father retired in 1. His father died on January 6, 1. Fox attended Burnaby Central Secondary School, and now has a theatre named for him in Burnaby South Secondary.[9] At age 1.

Fox starred in the Canadian television series Leo and Me, produced by the CBC, and in 1. Los Angeles to further his acting career. Shortly after his marriage, he decided to move back to Vancouver.[6] Fox is one of four members of the Leo and Me cast and crew who eventually developed Parkinson's disease in mid- life, an unusually high number that led to some investigation as to whether an environmental factor may have played a role.[1. Fox was discovered by producer Ronald Shedlo and made his American television debut in the television film Letters from Frank, credited under the name "Michael Fox". He intended to continue to use the name, but when he registered with the Screen Actors Guild, which requires unique registration names to avoid credit ambiguities, he discovered that Michael Fox, a veteran character actor, was already registered under the name.[6] As he explained in his autobiography, Lucky Man: A Memoir and in interviews, he needed to come up with a different name.

He did not like the sound of "Michael A. Fox" during a time when "fox" was coming to mean "attractive" and because his middle initial sounded too much like the Canadian "eh?" He also didn't like the sound of "Andrew" or "Andy," so he decided to adopt a new middle initial and settled on "J", as a homage to actor Michael J. Pollard.[8]Acting career[edit]Early career[edit]Fox's first feature film roles were Midnight Madness (1. Class of 1. 98. 4 (1.

Michael Fox. Shortly afterward, he began playing "Young Republican" Alex P. Keaton in the show Family Ties, which aired on NBC for seven seasons from 1.

In an interview with Jimmy Fallon in April 2. Fox stated he negotiated the role at a payphone at Pioneer Chicken.

He received the role only after Matthew Broderick was unavailable.[1. Family Ties had been sold to the television network using the pitch "Hip parents, square kids",[1. However, the positive reaction to Fox's performance led to his character becoming the focus of the show following the fourth episode.[1. At its peak, the audience for Family Ties drew one- third of America's households every week.[6] Fox won three Emmy awards for Family Ties in 1. He also won a Golden Globe Award in 1. Brandon Tartikoff, one of the show's producers, felt that Fox was too short in relation to the actors playing his parents, and tried to have him replaced. Tartikoff reportedly said that "this is not the kind of face you'll ever find on a lunch- box." After his later successes, Fox presented Tartikoff with a custom- made lunch- box with the inscription "To Brandon, this is for you to put your crow in.

Love and Kisses, Michael J. Fox." Tartikoff kept the lunch- box in his office for the rest of his NBC career.[1. While filming Family Ties, Fox met his wife, Tracy Pollan, who portrayed his girlfriend, Ellen.[6] When Fox left the TV series Spin City, his final episodes made numerous allusions to Family Ties: Michael Gross (who played Alex's father Steven) portrays Mike Flaherty's (Fox's character's) therapist,[1. Mallory".[1. 9] Also, when Flaherty becomes an environmental lobbyist in Washington, D. C., he meets a conservative senator from Ohio named Alex P. Keaton, and in one episode Meredith Baxter played Mike's mother. As a consequence of working in Family Ties, as well as his acting in Teen Wolf and Back to the Future, Fox became a teen idol.

VH1's show The Greatest later naming him among their "5. Greatest Teen Idols".[2. Film career[edit].

Fox at the 4. 0th Emmy Awards, August 1. In January 1. 98. Fox was cast to replace Eric Stoltz as Marty Mc. Fly, a teenager who is accidentally sent back in time from 1. Back to the Future.

Robert Zemeckis, the director, originally wanted Fox to play Marty, but Gary David Goldberg the creator of Family Ties, which Fox was working on at the time, refused to allow Zemeckis even to approach Fox as he felt that as Meredith Baxter was on maternity leave at the time, Fox's character Alex Keaton was needed to carry the show in her absence. Eric Stoltz was cast and was already filming Back to the Future, but Zemeckis felt that Stoltz was not giving the right type of performance for the humor involved.[2.

Zemeckis quickly replaced Stoltz with Fox, whose schedule was now more open with the return of Meredith Baxter. He was considered for the role of Mark Kendall in Once Bitten, but it eventually went to Jim Carrey. During filming, Fox would rehearse for Family Ties from 1. Back to the Future set where he would rehearse and shoot until 2: 3. This schedule lasted for two full months. Back to the Future was both a commercial and critical success.

The film spent 8 consecutive weekends as the number- one grossing movie at the US box office in 1. Variety applauded the performances, stating that Fox and his co- star Christopher Lloyd imbued Marty and Doc Brown's friendship with a quality reminiscent of King Arthur and Merlin.[2. The film was later followed by two similarly- successful sequels, Back to the Future Part II (1. Back to the Future Part III (1. Fox at the 3. 9th Emmy Awards in September 1. During and immediately after the Back to the Future trilogy, Fox starred in Teen Wolf (1.

Light of Day (1. 98. The Secret of My Success (1. Bright Lights, Big City (1.

Casualties of War (1. In The Secret of My Success, Fox played a recent graduate from Kansas State University who moves to New York City, where he has to deal with the ups and downs of the business world. The film was successful at the box office, grossing $1. Roger Ebert in The Chicago Sun Times wrote; "Fox provides a fairly desperate center for the film.