Michael Andrew Fox OC, professionally known as Michael J. Fox, is a retired Canadian-American actor, born on June 9, 1961.
He began his career in the 1970s and rose to prominence portraying Alex P. Keaton on the NBC sitcom Family Ties from 1982 to 1989.
Fox is famous for his role as protagonist Marty McFly in the Back to the Future film trilogy from 1985 to 1990, a critical and commercial success.
Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, he headlined several films, including Teen Wolf in 1985, The Secret of My Success in 1987, Casualties of War in 1989, Doc Hollywood in 1991, and The Frighteners in 1996.
Fox returned to television on the ABC sitcom Spin City, starring as Mike Flaherty from 1996 to 2000.
In 1998, he disclosed his 1991 diagnosis of Parkinson's disease and subsequently became an advocate for finding a cure.
In 2000, he founded the Michael J. Fox Foundation to help fund research and, despite worsening symptoms, continued to make guest appearances on television.
He voiced the lead roles in the Stuart Little films from 1999 to 2005 and the animated film Atlantis: The Lost Empire in 2001.
Fox retired in 2020 due to his declining health, but not before garnering critical acclaim for his recurring roles on the FX comedy-drama Rescue Me in 2009 and the CBS legal drama The Good Wife from 2010 to 2016.
Throughout his career, Fox won numerous awards, including five Primetime Emmy Awards, four Golden Globe Awards, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, and a Grammy Award.
He was also appointed an Officer of the Order of Canada in 2010, inducted to Canada's Walk of Fame in 2000, and the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2002.
For his advocacy of a cure for Parkinson's disease, he received an honorary doctorate from the Karolinska Institute in 2010 and an honorary Oscar in 2022.
