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| birth_place = Edmonton, Alberta, CanadaCanadianWEBSITE=CBC NEWSACCESS-DATE=MAY 4, 2018ARCHIVE-DATE=JUNE 3, 2018, live, }}Actortelevision producer|writer}}Fox retired from acting in 2020, but still makes public appearances as an activist.}}Tracy Pollan|July 16, 1988}}| children = 4michaeljfox.org}}| signature = Michael J. Fox official signature (2021).svg}}Michael Andrew Fox {{post-nominals|OC}} (born June 9, 1961), known professionally as Michael J. Fox, is a Canadian and American activist and retired actor. Beginning his career as a child actor in the 1970s, he rose to prominence portraying Alex P. Keaton on the NBC sitcom Family Ties (1982–1989) and Marty McFly in the Back to the Future film trilogy (1985–1990). Fox went on to star in films such as Teen Wolf (1985), The Secret of My Success (1987), Casualties of War (1989), Doc Hollywood (1991), and The Frighteners (1996). He returned to television on the ABC sitcom Spin City in the lead role of Mike Flaherty (1996–2000).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 2020 due to his declining health.NEWS, Perez, Lexy, November 17, 2020, Michael J. Fox Details Entering a "Second Retirement," Health Struggles in New Memoir,weblink The Hollywood Reporter, January 19, 2021, February 2, 2021,weblink live, Fox won five Emmy Awards, four Golden Globe Awards, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, and a Grammy Award. He was appointed an Officer of the Order of Canada in 2010, and was 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 the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award from the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences in 2022.NEWS,weblink Actor Michael J. Fox accepts honorary Oscar for Parkinson's advocacy, Reuters, November 20, 2022, May 14, 2023, Richwine, Lisa,

Early life

Fox was born in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, on June 9, 1961,ENCYCLOPEDIA,weblink Michael J. Fox: Canadian actor, Encyclopædia Britannica, Tikkanen, Amy, en, June 5, 2021, January 23, 2022, November 10, 2021,weblink the son of PhyllisWEB,weblink Michael's Story, The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research, January 23, 2022, January 16, 2022,weblink (née Piper) and William Nelson Fox.BOOK, Fox, Michael J., Lucky Man : A Memoir, Hyperion, 2003, 34, 46–47,weblink 978-0-7868-8874-0, William was a 25-year veteran of the Canadian Forces who later became a police dispatcher,NEWS, (AARP: The Magazine), Corsello, Andrew, Unbreakable: After a tough, drak spell, Michael J. Fox has emerged steelier, more realistic – and ready to tackle whatever comes next, 36–41, en, NEWS, October 21, 2015, Back to the Future: a timeline of Michael J Fox's career, en-GB, The Daily Telegraph, London,weblink dead, February 6, 2018,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20180225020751weblink">weblink February 25, 2018, 0307-1235, On June 9, 1961, six years after Marty McFly's parents are supposed to meet in Back to the Future, Michael J Fox is born in Canada to a police officer and an actress., while Phyllis was a payroll clerk and actress. Fox is of English and Irish descent, with his maternal grandparents being from England and Belfast, Northern Ireland.WEB,weblink Phyllis Piper Census Canada Census, 1931, FamilySearch, 19 February 2024, NEWS,weblink Michael J. Fox on 'Back to the Future': 'I Truly Thought I Was Terrible', Parade: Entertainment, Recipes, Health, Life, Holidays, March 29, 2012, June 11, 2022, June 11, 2022,weblink live, Fox's family lived in various cities and towns across Canada due to his father's career.{{sfn|Fox|2002|p=32}} They moved to Burnaby, a city outside of Vancouver, when his father retired in 1971. His father died of a heart attack on January 6, 1990.WEB,weblink Michael J. Fox Biography, The Michael J Fox Foundation, August 25, 2010,weblink February 12, 2015, dead, His mother died in September 2022.WEB, Rice, Nicholas, VanHoose, Benjamin, October 9, 2022, Michael J. Fox Mourns His Mom at Back to the Future Comic-Con Event,weblink live,weblink October 9, 2022, October 9, 2022, People, Fox attended Burnaby Central Secondary School, and has a theatre named for him at Burnaby South Secondary. At age 16, Fox starred in the Canadian television series Leo and Me, produced by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, and in 1979, at age 18, he moved to Los Angeles to further his acting career.{{sfn|Fox|2002|p=65}} Shortly after his 1988 marriage, he moved back to Vancouver.{{sfn|Fox|2002|p=48}}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.WEB,weblink Michael J. Fox, The Canadian Encyclopedia, June 15, 2022, June 15, 2022,weblink live, Fox explained in his autobiography Lucky Man: A Memoir:{{blockquote|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.}}

Acting career

Early career

Fox's first feature film roles were Midnight Madness (1980) and Class of 1984 (1982), credited in both as 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 1982 to 1989. In an interview with Jimmy Fallon in April 2014, Fox stated he negotiated the role at a payphone at Pioneer Chicken. He received the role only after Matthew Broderick was unavailable. Family Ties had been sold to the television network using the pitch "Hip parents, square kids",MAGAZINE, Haglund, David,weblink Reagan's Favorite Sitcom: How Family Ties spawned a conservative hero, Slate (magazine), Slate, March 2, 2007, January 2, 2011,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20130514172956weblink">weblink May 14, 2013, live, with the parents originally intended to be the main characters. However, the positive reaction to Fox's performance led to his character's becoming the focus of the show following the fourth episode. At its peak, the audience for Family Ties drew one-third of America's households every week.{{citation needed|date=January 2022}} Fox won three Emmy Awards for Family Ties in 1986, 1987, and 1988.WEB,weblink Emmy Award History, Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, August 24, 2010,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20120404094337weblink">weblink April 4, 2012, live, He won a Golden Globe Award in 1989.WEB,weblink Golden Globe Awards for Michael J. Fox, Golden Globe Awards, April 14, 2016,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20160418092738weblink">weblink April 18, 2016, live, 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 lunchbox." After his later successes, Fox presented Tartikoff with a custom-made lunchbox with the inscription "To Brandon: This is for you to put your crow in. Love and Kisses, Michael J." Tartikoff kept the lunchbox in his office for the rest of his NBC career.{{sfn|Fox|2003|pages=81–82}}MAGAZINE,weblink The Private Files of Brandon Tartikoff Revealed, The Hollywood Reporter, October 17, 2012, Lacey, Rose, November 19, 2020, November 7, 2017,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20171107060049weblink">weblink live, When Fox left the television series Spin City in 2000, 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,NEWS,weblink Putting His Own Spin on 'City's' Season Finale, Los Angeles Times, March 20, 2000, August 23, 2010, Amy, Wallace,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20100221085727weblink">weblink February 21, 2010, live, and there is a reference to an off-screen character named "Mallory".Shales, Tom (May 24, 2000). "Michael J. Fox, Playing 'Spin City' to a Fare-Thee-Well". The Washington Post. C1. Also, when Flaherty becomes an environmental lobbyist in Washington, D.C., he meets a conservative senator from Ohio named Alex P. Keaton,WEB,weblink 'Family Ties': The Hit American Sitcom that Defined the 80's, Abilock, Genni, June 14, 2022, Herald Weekly, June 14, 2022, September 4, 2022,weblink live, and in one episode Meredith Baxter played Mike's mother.MAGAZINE,weblink Family Ties lives on with Spin City, Fretts, Bruce, November 21, 1997, Entertainment Weekly, August 23, 2010, live,weblink November 20, 2015, 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".WEB,weblink Episode 080: 50 Greatest Teen Idols, VH1, October 21, 2015,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20120209143618weblink">weblink February 9, 2012,

Film career

File:Michael J Fox 1988-cropped1.jpg|thumb|upright|Fox at the 40th Primetime Emmy Awards40th Primetime Emmy AwardsIn January 1985, Fox was cast to replace Eric Stoltz as Marty McFly, a teenager who is accidentally sent back in time from 1985 to 1955 in Back to the Future. Director Robert Zemeckis originally wanted Fox to play Marty, but Gary David Goldberg, the creator of Family Ties, on which Fox was working 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. 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."Back to the Future: Making the Trilogy: Chapter 1 (DVD Documentary)"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.WEB,weblink Back to the Future, Box Office Mojo, August 25, 2010,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20100918012246weblink">weblink September 18, 2010, live, 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.NEWS, Variety,weblink July 1, 1985, Back to the Future, October 9, 2008,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20110828084007weblink">weblink August 28, 2011, live, 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.VIDEO, Bob Gale, Robert Zemeckis, Back to the Future Part III. Special Features: Making the Trilogy: Chapter Three, DVD, Universal Studios Home Entertainment, 2002, etal, File:Michael J. Fox (cropped).jpg|thumb|upright|left|Fox at the 39th Primetime Emmy Awards39th Primetime Emmy AwardsDuring 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.WEB,weblink The Secret of My Success, Box Office Mojo, September 1, 2010,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20091203000815weblink">weblink December 3, 2009, live, 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."NEWS,weblink The Secret of My Success Review, Chicago Sun- Times, Roger, Ebert, April 10, 1987, September 1, 2010,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20110927205538weblink">weblink September 27, 2011, live, 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".NEWS, Hinson, Hal, 'City' Blight, The Washington Post, April 1, 1988,weblink June 9, 2021, February 19, 2022,weblink live, 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)".NEWS, Ebert, Roger, Bright Lights, Big City, [Chicago Sun-Times, April 1, 1988,weblink June 10, 2008,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20080408090233weblink">weblink April 8, 2008, live, During the shooting of Bright Lights, Big City, Fox co-starred again with Tracy Pollan, his on-screen girlfriend from Family Ties.NEWS, Benson, Sheila, April 1, 1988, MOVIE REVIEW: Passions Dim in 'Bright Lights, Big City',weblink Los Angeles Times, September 1, 2010, September 4, 2022,weblink live, 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."WEB,weblink Casualties of War Review, FilmCritic.com, January 4, 2006, September 1, 2010, dead,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20101113234717weblink">weblink November 13, 2010, 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.NEWS, January 18, 1989, Michael J. Fox's Snowback in Par pact, 14, Variety, 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".MAGAZINE,weblink Doc Hollywood Review, Time Out, September 1, 2010, dead,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20111118081240weblink">weblink November 18, 2011, 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", Fox hastily signed a three-film contract,{{citation needed|date=January 2022}} appearing in For Love or Money (1993), Life with Mikey (1993), and Greedy (1994). In the mid-1990s Fox played 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."NEWS,weblink The Frighteners Review, Los Angeles Times, Kenneth, Turan, Kenneth Turan, July 19, 1996, dead,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20091031053608weblink">weblink October 31, 2009, May 18, 2014, He voiced the American Bulldog Chance in Disney's live-action film (Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey) and its sequel (Homeward Bound II: Lost in San Francisco), the titular character in Stuart Little and its two sequels Stuart Little 2 and (Stuart Little 3: Call of the Wild), and Milo James Thatch in Disney's animated film (Atlantis: The Lost Empire).WEB,weblink Michael J Fox Biography, Yahoo!, August 23, 2010, dead,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20090615064655weblink">weblink June 15, 2009,

Later career and retirement

File:Michael J. Fox Hand Prints.jpg|upright|thumb|Hand prints of Fox in front of The Great Movie Ride at Disney's Hollywood StudiosDisney's Hollywood StudiosSpin City ran from 1996 to 2002 on American television network ABC. The show depicted a fictional New York City government, originally starring Fox as Deputy Mayor Mike Flaherty.BOOK, Kaklamanidou, Betty, Tally, Margaret, 2016, Politics and Politicians in Contemporary US Television: Washington as Fiction,weblink Abingdon-on-Thames and New York, Routledge, 8, 978-1-4724-8604-2, Fox won an Emmy Award for Spin City in 2000, three Golden Globe Awards in 1998, 1999, and 2000, and two Screen Actors Guild Awards in 1999 and 2000. During the third season, Fox told the cast and crew of the show that he had Parkinson's disease, and during the fourth season, he announced his retirement from the show.NEWS,weblink Fox quits Spin City, BBC News, January 19, 2000, August 22, 2010,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20120309121615weblink">weblink March 9, 2012, live, Fox revealed in 1998 that he had been suffering from Parkinson's since 1991. The condition was diagnosed after he noticed a twitch in his little finger while he was working on the set of the film, Doc Hollywood., A character played by Charlie Sheen replaced his,NEWS, Weinraub, Bernard, May 7, 2001, Charlie Sheen Delivers A New Spin To 'Spin City', The New York Times,weblink live, August 25, 2010,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20131002212446weblink">weblink October 2, 2013, and he made three more appearances during the final season. In 2002, his Lottery Hill Entertainment production company attempted to set up a pilot for ABC with DreamWorks Television and Touchstone Television company via first-look agreements, but it never went to series.NEWS, Schneider, Michael, August 15, 2002, Fox spins ABC tale,weblink January 11, 2022, Variety, en-US, January 11, 2022,weblink live, NEWS, Schneider, Michael, Jill, Schneider, March 16, 2003, Bierko ices ABC role,weblink April 17, 2022, Variety, en-US, January 11, 2022,weblink live, In 2004, Fox guest starred in two episodes of the comedy-drama Scrubs – created by Spin City creator Bill Lawrence – as Dr. Kevin Casey, a surgeon with severe obsessive-compulsive disorder.NEWS,weblink Michael J. Fox to scrub up twice for 'Scrubs', USA Today, April 1, 2004, August 25, 2010, Bill, Keveney,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20100929233950weblink">weblink September 29, 2010, live, WEB,weblink Scrubs: "My Clean Break"/"My Catalyst", McNutt, Myles, The A.V. Club, TV Club, July 8, 2013, February 6, 2018, en-US,weblink February 7, 2018, live, In 2006, he appeared in four episodes of Boston Legal as a lung cancer patient. The producers brought him back in a recurring role for season three, beginning with the season premiere. Fox was nominated for an Emmy Award for best guest appearance.File:Michael J. Fox 2012 (cropped).jpg|left|thumb|254x254px|Fox speaking at LotusphereLotusphereIn 2009, Fox appeared in five episodes of the television series Rescue Me which earned him an Emmy for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series. Starting in 2010, Fox played a recurring role in the US drama The Good Wife as crafty attorney Louis Canning and earned Emmy nominations for three consecutive years.NEWS, Bobbin, Jay, 'The Good Wife' Season 5: Emmy nominee Michael J. Fox 'open' to returning,weblink March 18, 2015, zap2it, July 27, 2013,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20140915085758weblink">weblink September 15, 2014, live, In 2011, Fox portrayed himself in the eighth season of Larry David's Curb Your Enthusiasm, in which David's fictionalized self becomes Fox's neighbor and accuses him of using his Parkinson's disease as a manipulative tool. Fox returned in 2017 for a brief appearance, referencing his prior time on the show.NEWS, Curb Your Enthusiasm,weblink The A.V. Club, August 24, 2012, Meredith, Blake, September 12, 2011,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20120815165417weblink">weblink August 15, 2012, live, AV MEDIA, Curb Your Enthusiasm – Larry confronts Michael J. Fox – Season 8 Ep. 10,weblink YouTube, TheGuysTravel, August 24, 2012, TheGuysTravel, Video upload, September 12, 2011,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20130612013352weblink">weblink June 12, 2013, live, 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,NEWS, NBC: Michel J. Fox Will Return To Series TV,weblinkweblink dead, August 21, 2012, Associated Press, Frazier, Moore, April 17, 2022, but was taken off the air after 15 episodes and later cancelled.WEB,weblink Michael J. Fox Show: NBC Sitcom Now Officially Cancelled, May 11, 2014, January 19, 2021, TV Series Finale, February 19, 2022,weblink live, 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.NEWS,weblink 2010: Michael J. Fox speaks during the closing ceremony of the Vancouver Winter Olympics at B.C. Place on Feb. 28, Montreal Gazette, January 7, 2013, September 30, 2013,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20140501143206weblink">weblink May 1, 2014, live, Despite sound-alike A.J. LoCascio voicing Marty McFly in (Back to the Future: The Game|the 2011 Back to the Future episodic adventure game), Fox lent his likeness to the in-game version of Marty alongside Christopher Lloyd. Fox made a special guest appearance in the final episode of the series as an elder version of Marty, as well as his great-grandfather Willie McFly.WEB,weblink Back To The Future Episode 5: OUTATIME Video Game, E3 2011: Exclusive Developer Diary HD, GameTrailers, June 3, 2011,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20110903010557weblink">weblink September 3, 2011, live, 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.MAGAZINE,weblink Michael J. Fox Joining 'Designated Survivor' For Arc, January 10, 2018, Deadline Hollywood, January 10, 2018, Patrick, Hipes,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20180110193505weblink">weblink January 10, 2018, live, WEB,weblink Designated Survivor: Michael J Fox Was A Perfect Season 2 Villain, November 2, 2019, ScreenRant, January 19, 2021, November 3, 2019,weblink live, In 2020, Fox retired from acting due to the increasing unreliability of his speech. 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."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|date=October 2022}}

Other work

Fox served as an executive producer of Spin City alongside co-creators Bill Lawrence and Gary David Goldberg.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).NEWS,weblink Review | Michael J. Fox mixes candor, humor and hope in his heartfelt new memoir, Porochista, Khakpour, The Washington Post, January 19, 2021, December 1, 2020,weblink live,

Personal life

File:Michael J Fox Tracy Pollan2.jpeg|thumb|right|upright|Fox with Tracy Pollan at the 40th Primetime Emmy AwardsWEB,weblink Michael J. Fox, Academy of Television Arts & SciencesAcademy of Television Arts & SciencesFox met his wife, Tracy Pollan, when she played the role of his girlfriend, Ellen, on Family Ties. They were married on July 16, 1988, at West Mountain Inn in Arlington, Vermont.MAGAZINE, Michael J. Fox and Tracy Pollan Are True to Each Other, but This Is a Fake Photo—and Thereby Hangs a Tale, Susan, Reed,weblink People (magazine), People, August 1, 1988, 30, 5, March 5, 2013,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20130730044742weblink">weblink July 30, 2013, live, The couple have four children: son Sam Michael (born May 30, 1989),MAGAZINE,weblink December 4, 1989, 32, 23, Getting Back to His Future, Michael, Alexander, People, March 5, 2013, October 1, 2020,weblink live, twin daughters Aquinnah Kathleen and Schuyler Frances (born February 15, 1995),MAGAZINE,weblink Passages, Mary, Huzinec, March 6, 1995, People, March 5, 2013, dead,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20130730042352weblink">weblink July 30, 2013, mdy-all, and daughter Esmé Annabelle (born November 3, 2001).MAGAZINE,weblink November 19, 2001, 56, 21, 21st Century Fox, People, March 5, 2013, November 16, 2018,weblink live, Fox holds dual Canadian-US citizenship.NEWS,weblink Fox: I Was Over-Medicated In Stem Cell Ad, CBS News, October 26, 2006, January 26, 2011, Alfonso, Serrano,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20110218083306weblink">weblink February 18, 2011, dead, 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. On June 4, 2010, the city of Burnaby, British Columbia granted him the Freedom of the City.WEB,weblink Michael J. Fox Awarded Freeman Status, City of Burnaby, June 14, 2010, August 22, 2010, dead,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20110706165651weblink">weblink July 6, 2011, Fox and his family live primarily in Manhattan.MAGAZINE,weblink Michael J. Fox and Tracy Pollan's Manhattan Home, Architectural Digest, November 20, 2012, October 22, 2015,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20150928191739weblink">weblink September 28, 2015, live, The family owns a second home in Quogue, New York.WEB,weblink Michael J. Fox and Tracy Pollan at Home in the Hamptons, Julia, Sweeten, HookedOnHouses.net, April 1, 2008, August 20, 2019,weblink August 20, 2019, live, Fox battled alcoholism during the onset of his Parkinson's diagnosis, but has been sober since 1992.WEB,weblink Michael J. Fox says he became an alcoholic, hid Parkinson's diagnosis: 'There's no way out', USA Today, Ryan, Patrick, January 22, 2023, January 23, 2023, en, January 22, 2023,weblink live, WEB,weblink Michael J. Fox Reveals the Moment He Realized He Had to Stop Drinking, People, Cagle, Jess, August 15, 2018, January 23, 2023, en, January 22, 2023,weblink live, Fox endorsed Democrat Pete Buttigieg prior to the 2020 United States presidential election.Who’s Backing Whom? Tracking Democratic Presidential Candidates’ Celebrity Endorsements

Parkinson's disease

Fox started displaying symptoms of early-onset Parkinson's disease in 1991 while shooting the film Doc Hollywood, and was diagnosed shortly thereafter. Though his initial symptoms were only a twitching little finger and a sore shoulder, he was told that within a few years he would not be able to work.NEWS, Freeman, Hadley, November 21, 2020, Michael J Fox: 'Every step now is a frigging math problem, so I take it slow', en-GB, The Guardian, London,weblink November 21, 2020, 0261-3077, November 24, 2020,weblink live, The causes of Parkinson's disease are not well understood, and may include genetic and environmental factors. Fox is one of at least four members of the cast and crew of Leo and Me who developed early-onset Parkinson's. According to Fox, this is not enough people to be defined as a cluster so it has not been well researched. He told Hadley Freeman of The Guardian in late 2020: "I can think of a thousand possible scenarios: I used to go fishing in a river near paper mills and eat the salmon I caught; I've been to a lot of farms; I smoked a lot of pot in high school when the government was poisoning the crops. But you can drive yourself crazy trying to figure it out."File:0522 ma big (cropped1).jpg|thumb|left|Fox and Muhammad AliMuhammad AliAfter his diagnosis, Fox began drinking heavily and grew depressed.MAGAZINE,weblink Michael J. Fox 'Stunned' by Robin Williams's Parkinson's Diagnosis, Melody, Chiu, August 14, 2014, People, August 20, 2019,weblink August 20, 2019, live, He eventually sought help and stopped drinking altogether.NEWS,weblink It's the gift that keeps on taking, The Guardian, April 11, 2009, June 29, 2009, London, Emma, Brockes,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20131008000425weblink">weblink October 8, 2013, live, 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. 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).WEB,weblink Key Initiatives: PPMI Clinical Study, The Michael J Fox Foundation, August 30, 2020, August 14, 2020,weblink live, Fox manages the symptoms of his Parkinson's disease with the drug carbidopa/levodopa,EPISODE,weblink Fresh Air, Actor Michael J. Fox, Terry Gross, interviewer, April 30, 2002, April 17, 2022,weblink December 16, 2018, and he had a thalamotomy in 1998.NEWS,weblink Brain implant better than meds for Parkinson's disease, CNN, January 6, 2009, August 13, 2010,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20120202200436weblink">weblink February 2, 2012, live, 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.NEWS,weblink 'It's the gift that keeps on taking', April 11, 2009, Emma, Brockes, The Guardian, London, October 25, 2010,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20131008000425weblink">weblink October 8, 2013, live, 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).NEWS,weblink Michael J. Fox pitches for Parkinson's research, September 28, 1999, CNN, January 21, 2013,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20140203011936weblink">weblink February 3, 2014, live, {{Blockquote|quote = 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. }}{{clear}}In an interview with NPR in April 2002, Fox explained what he does when he becomes symptomatic:{{Blockquote|quote = 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 dyskinesia, which is a reaction to the medication. Because if I were purely symptomatic with Parkinson's symptoms, a lot of times speaking is difficult. There's a kind of a cluttering of speech and it's very difficult to sit still, to sit in one place. You know, the symptoms are different, so I'd rather kind of suffer the symptoms of dyskinesia ... this kind of weaving and this kind of continuous thing is much preferable, actually, than pure Parkinson's symptoms. So that's what I generally do ... I haven't had any, you know, problems with pure Parkinson's symptoms in any of these interviews, because I'll tend to just make sure that I have enough 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.'|source = Interview, April 30, 2002, Fresh Air, NPR}}{{clear}}In 2006, Fox starred in a campaign ad for then-State Auditor of Missouri Claire McCaskill in her successful 2006 Senate campaign against incumbent Jim Talent, expressing her support for embryonic stem cell research. In the ad, he visibly showed the effects of his Parkinson's disease:{{Blockquote|quote = 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.Campaign Advertisement for Claire McCaskillHTTP://NEWS.BBC.CO.UK/1/HI/ENTERTAINMENT/6083472.STM WEBSITE=BBC NEWS ACCESS-DATE=AUGUST 25, 2010 ARCHIVE-DATE=DECEMBER 21, 2007 WEBSITE=CBS NEWS ACCESS-DATE=AUGUST 25, 2010 ARCHIVE-DATE=SEPTEMBER 15, 2011, live, }}{{clear}}File:Michael J Fox Theatre.jpg|thumb|The Michael J. Fox Theatre at Burnaby South Secondary SchoolBurnaby South Secondary SchoolThe 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.MAGAZINE,weblink The Michael J. Fox Effect, U.S. News & World Report, October 26, 2006, August 25, 2010, dead,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20100517095318weblink">weblink May 17, 2010, 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. 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).MAGAZINE,weblink Michael J. Fox Speaks Out About Parkinson's, O, The Oprah Magazine, March 19, 2009, September 30, 2013,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20131002040400weblink">weblink October 2, 2013, live, His work led him to be named one of the 100 people "whose power, talent or moral example is transforming the world" in 2007 by Time magazine.NEWS,weblink The TIME 100 – Michael J. Fox, May 3, 2007, Patti, Davis, Patti Davis, Time, May 14, 2011,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20110425013526weblink">weblink April 25, 2011, dead, On March 5, 2010, Fox received an honorary doctorate in medicine from Karolinska Institute for his contributions to research in Parkinson's disease.WEB,weblink Michael J Fox hedersdoktor på KI, Ny Teknik, March 5, 2010, August 25, 2010, sv, dead,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20100526050232weblink">weblink May 26, 2010, NEWS,weblink Michael J. Fox Gets Doctored, E! News, March 5, 2010, August 23, 2010,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20100801093226weblink">weblink August 1, 2010, live, He received an honorary doctorate of laws from the University of British Columbia.NEWS,weblink Michael J. Fox 'deeply moved' by honorary degree from UBC, The Vancouver Sun, May 23, 2008, August 23, 2010, dead,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20120822035639weblink">weblink August 22, 2012, On May 31, 2012, he received an honorary degree of Doctor of Laws from the Justice Institute of British ColumbiaWEB,weblink Celebrating Convocation, Justice Institute of British Columbia, May 31, 2012, June 15, 2012,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20120618002753weblink">weblink June 18, 2012, live, to recognize his accomplishments as a performer as well as his commitment to raising research funding and awareness for Parkinson's disease. Fox recalled performing in role-playing simulations as part of police recruit training exercises at the Institute early in his career.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.WEB,weblink The Michael J. Fox Foundation does raffle with Nike to raise awareness for Parkinson's disease, Rooney, Kyle, October 21, 2016, HotNewHipHop, October 21, 2016,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20161021120820weblink">weblink October 21, 2016, live, 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.NEWS, Buchanan, Kyle, November 20, 2022, Michael J. Fox, Diane Warren and Cher at the Raucous Governors Awards, en-US, The New York Times,weblink November 22, 2022, 0362-4331, November 21, 2022,weblink live, WEB, Michael J. Fox receives honorary Oscar at emotional ceremony in Los Angeles,weblink November 22, 2022, TODAY.com, November 20, 2022, en, November 21, 2022,weblink live, The award was presented by friend Woody Harrelson.In a 2023 interview with Jane Pauley on CBS Sunday Morning, Fox said, "I'm not gonna lie. It's getting harder. Every day it's tougher." He said he has had spinal surgery for a benign tumor and has broken bones in several falls.NEWS,weblink Michael J. Fox calls Parkinson's disease 'the gift that keeps on taking' in candid new interview, Heching, Dan, CNN, April 30, 2023, May 1, 2023, His life is the subject of (Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie), a 2023 documentary film by Davis Guggenheim for Apple TV+.

Filmography

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! Year! Title! Role! class="unsortable" | Notes! class="unsortable" | {{abbr|Ref(s).|Reference(s)}}| 1980Midnight Madness (1980 film)>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| | | 1988Bright Lights, Big City (film)>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 (1993 film)>For Love or Money| Doug Ireland| | 1994| Where the Rivers Flow North| Clayton Farnsworth| | Greedy (film)>Greedy| Daniel "Danny" McTeague Jr.| | 1995Coldblooded (film)>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| | | 1999Stuart Little (film)>Stuart Little| Stuart LittleVoice| | 2001| (Atlantis: The Lost Empire)| Milo James Thatch| 2002| Interstate 60| Mr. Baker| Cameo| | Stuart Little 2Stuart Little| Voice| | 2005| (Stuart Little 3: Call of the Wild)| Voice, direct to video| | 2013| (Drew: The Man Behind the Poster)Himself| Documentary| | 2014Annie (2014 film)>Annie| Cameo| 2015| Being CanadianDocumentary| Back in Time (2015 film)>Back in TimeHTTP://BACKINTIMEFILM.COM/>TITLE=BACK IN TIME FILMWEBSITE=BACK IN TIME FILM ARCHIVEDATE=OCTOBER 5, 2016, dead, Joe Calzaghe>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

{{sticky header}}{| class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders sticky-header-multi"! rowspan=2 | Year! rowspan=2 | Title! colspan=3 | Functioned as! rowspan=2 | Role! rowspan=2 class="unsortable" | Notes! rowspan=2 class="unsortable" | {{abbr|Ref(s).|Reference(s)}}! Actor! Director! ExecutiveProducer1978 The Magic Lie| rowspan=27 {{yes}}| rowspan=19 {{no}}| rowspan=30 {{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 (TV series)>Lou Grant| Paul Stone| Episode: "Kids"| 1980Family (1976 TV series)>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 ,000 Pyramid| Himself| 30 episodes| 1984| Night Court| Eddie Simms| Episode: "Santa Goes Downtown"| The Homemade Comedy Special| HostTelevision special| | Don't Ask Me, Ask God| Future Son| 1985List of Family Ties episodes#Film .281985.29>Family Ties Vacation| Alex P. KeatonTelevision film| Poison Ivy (1985 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)|rowspan=6 {{no}}| Pfc. Raymond Griffiths| Voice, documentary| The Return of Bruno| Himself| Television documentary film| Muppet Babies (1984 TV series)>Muppet BabiesAlex P. Keaton| Voice, episode: "This Little Piggy Went to Hollywood"|| 1988| Mickey's 60th BirthdayTelevision special| | 1990| Sex, Buys & Advertising| Himself | 1991| Saturday Night Live| Host| Episode: "Michael J. Fox/The Black Crowes"| Tales from the Crypt (TV series)>Tales from the Crypt | rowspan=2 {{yes}}| Prosecutor| Episode: "The Trap"| 1992 Brooklyn Bridge (TV series)>Brooklyn Bridge| {{no}}| n/a| Episode: "Rainy Day"| | Shelley Duvall's Bedtime Stories | rowspan=4 {{yes}}| rowspan=23 {{no}}| Narrator| Episode: "There's a Nightmare in My Closet"| | 1994Don't Drink the Water (1994 film)>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| rowspan=2 {{no}}| rowspan=2 {{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| | 2004Scrubs (TV series)>Scrubs| rowspan=15 {{yes}}| rowspan=8 {{no}}| Dr. Kevin Casey| 2 episodes| | 2005| Saving Milly| Himself| Television film; Uncredited| | 2006| Boston Legal| Daniel Post| 6 episodes| 2009Rescue Me (American TV series)>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!|rowspan=6 {{no}}| Marty McFly| Skit celebrating Back to the Future Archived at Ghostarchive{{cbignore}} and the weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20151022080932weblink">Wayback Machine{{cbignore}}: HTTPS://WWW.YOUTUBE.COM/WATCH?V=Q0VGRLEJEWA> TITLE=MARTY MCFLY & DOC BROWN VISIT 'JIMMY KIMMEL LIVE'JIMMY KIMMEL LIVE!> DATE=OCTOBER 22, 2015 MEDIUM=YOUTUBE, {{cbignore}}| 2016Nightcap (2016 TV series)>Nightcap| Himself| Episode: "The Cannon"| | 2018Designated Survivor (TV series)>Designated Survivor| Ethan West| 5 episodes| 2019| Corner Gas Animated| Himself| Voice, episode: "Dream Waiver"| | 2020 The Good Fight| Louis Canning| 2 episodes| | 2021| Expedition: Back to the Future| Himself| Episode: "Great Josh!"| ">

Video games {| class"wikitable plainrowheaders"

! Year! Title! Voice role! Notes| 2011| (Back to the Future: The Game) | William McFly / Future Marty McFly| Episode: "Outatime"| 2015| Lego Dimensions | Marty McFly | ">

Web {| class"wikitable plainrowheaders"

! Year! Title! Role! Notes| 2020Holiday (Lil Nas X song)>"The Origins of Holiday" (Lil Nas X song trailer)| Marty McFly|

Awards and honors

File:Michael J Fox Walk of fame.jpg|thumb|Fox's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for Motion Picture – 7021 Hollywood Blvd.]]Over his career Fox won five 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, along with being 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 the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award from the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences in 2022.

• 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.WEB,weblink Michael J. Fox, Canada's Walk of Fame, en, October 2, 2018,weblink July 19, 2018, live,
• 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.WEB,weblink Michael J. Fox, Hollywood Walk of Fame, en-US, October 2, 2018,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20181006023448weblink">weblink October 6, 2018, live,
• 2005: Received the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement.WEB, Golden Plate Awardees, American Academy of Achievement,weblink January 5, 2021, December 15, 2016,weblink live, NEWS, 2005 Summit Highlights Photo,weblink Actor/activist Michael J. Fox is inducted into the Academy by Olympic figure-skating champion Dorothy Hamill., January 5, 2021, January 19, 2021,weblink live,
• 2011: Honoured with the Golden Camera Award for Lifetime Achievement – International.
• 2010: Appointed Officer of the Order of Canada – The Officer O.C. recognises national service or achievement.PRESS RELEASE,weblink Governor General announces 74 new appointments to the Order of Canada, Governor General of Canada, June 30, 2010, February 28, 2020,weblink November 17, 2019, live,
• 2010: Received the National Association of Broadcasters Distinguished Service Award.WEB, Distinguished Service Award: Award Recipients,weblink April 17, 2022, National Association of Broadcasters, en-US, May 18, 2021,weblink live,
• 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.PRESS RELEASE, SFU announces 2021 Honorary Degree recipients,weblink March 26, 2021, March 26, 2021, Simon Fraser University,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20210326180535weblink">weblink live,
• 2022: Received the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award from 95th Academy AwardsWEB, June 21, 2022, THE ACADEMY TO HONOR MICHAEL J. FOX, EUZHAN PALCY, DIANE WARREN AND PETER WEIR WITH OSCARS® AT GOVERNORS AWARDS IN NOVEMBER,weblink July 2, 2022, Oscars.org {{!, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences |language=en |archive-date=November 12, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221112015248weblink |url-status=live }}

Books

• BOOK, Michael J., Fox, Lucky Man: A Memoir,weblink registration, Hyperion, New York, 2002, 978-0-7868-6764-6,
• BOOK, Michael J., Fox, Always Looking Up: The Adventures of an Incurable Optimist,weblink registration, Hyperion, New York, 2009, 978-1-4013-0338-9,
• BOOK, Michael J., Fox,weblink registration, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Future: Twists and Turns and Lessons Learned, Hyperion, New York, 2010, 978-1-4013-2386-8,
• BOOK, Michael J., Fox, No Time Like the Future: An Optimist Considers Mortality, Flatiron Books, New York, 2020, 978-1-2502-6561-6,

Explanatory notes

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References

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External links

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• Michael J Fox Theatre
• The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research
• {{IMDb name|150}}
• {{emmytvlegends name|michael-j-fox}}
• {{C-SPAN|49493}}

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