Michael J Fox

Michael Andrew Fox (born June 9, 1961 in Edmonton, Alberta), better known as Michael J. Fox, is a retired Canadian-American actor. His career in film and television began in the late 1970s. His roles include: Marty McFly in the Back to the Future trilogy (1985-1990); Alex P. Keaton in Family Ties (1982-1989), for which he won three Emmy Awards and a Golden Globe; and Mike Flaherty in Spin City (1996-2000), for which he won an emmy , two Golden Globes and two SAG Awards. After starting his acting career under the name of Michael Fox, the Canadian added the letter J. to not coincide with the performer of the same name and as a tribute to another actor, Michael J. Pollard.

In 1991, he was diagnosed with Parkinson's and revealed his condition to the public in 1998. In 2000, he gave up acting as the symptoms of the disease became more severe. Since then she has remained an activist for the cure of said disease. This led him to create The Michael J. Fox Foundation. In March 2010, the Karolinska Institutet in Sweden awarded him an honoris causa for his work on a cure for Parkinson's disease.

Since the year 2000, Fox has worked primarily as a voice actor in films such as Stuart Little and Atlantis: The Lost Empire. He has had minor roles in television series such as Boston Legal , The Good Wife and Scrubs . In addition, he has edited three books: Lucky Man: A Memoir (2002), Always Looking Up: The Adventures of an Incurable Optimist (2009) and A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Future: Twists and Turns and Lessons Learned (2010).

In September 2013, he began starring in a television series: The Michael J Fox Show. In November 2020, he announced his retirement from acting due to complications from Parkinson's.

Early Years

Michael Andrew Fox was born on June 9, 1961 in Edmonton, Alberta; son of Phyllis Piper, an actress and payroll clerk, and William Fox, a police officer and member of the Canadian Forces, his family lived in various cities and towns throughout Canada due to his military career father of him They eventually settled in Burnaby, a city located east of Vancouver, when his father retired from the military in 1971. Fox attended Burnaby Central Secondary School, and there is now a theater named in his honor at Burnaby South. Secondary. His father died of a heart attack on January 6, 1990.^{[citation needed]}

Career

Beginnings in Acting and Family Ties

Fox starred in the Canadian television series Leo and Me at the age of 15, and in 1979 at the age of 18, he moved to Los Angeles to pursue acting. Shortly after getting married she decided to move back to Vancouver. He was discovered by producer Ronald Shedlo and made his debut in the US telefilm Letters from Frank, where he appears in the credits as "Michael Fox". He intended to continue under that name, but upon registering with the Screen Actors Guild was not allowed to enter that name to avoid ambiguity in the credits, he discovered that Michael Fox, a veteran actor, was already registered under that name. As he explained in his autobiography, Lucky Man: A Memoir, and in interviews, he had to choose another name. He didn't like the way "Andrew" sounded. or "Andy" Fox, so he decided to adopt the initial & # 34;J & # 34; for his middle name, in homage to actor Michael J. Pollard.

His first film role was in Midnight Madness (1980), as Michael Fox in the credits. He then played the & # 34; young republican & # 34; Alex P. Keaton in the series Family Ties, which ran on NBC for seven seasons (from 1982 to 1989). Fox got the part after Matthew Broderick couldn't take it because he was busy. Family Ties had been sold to the television network as a series where the main characters would be adults. However, the good response to Fox's performance allowed the character to become the center of attention of the show after the fourth episode. At his best, the audience for Family Ties was each week a third of the households in the United States. For his work on the series, Fox won three Emmy Awards in 1986, 1987 and 1988, and a Globe Gold in 1989.

Brandon Tartikoff, one of the show's producers, thought Fox was too short for the actors playing his parents and tried to replace him. Tartikoff stated that "that's not the kind of face you'll find in a lunch box." After his success, Fox presented Tartikoff with a lunch box inscribed "For Brandon, this is for you to put your bragging rights on." Regards, Michael J. Fox". Tartikoff kept the lunch box in his office for the rest of his NBC career.

While filming Family Ties, Fox met his future wife, Tracy Pollan, when she was playing his girlfriend, Ellen. When Fox left the series Spin City, its later episodes made numerous references to Family Ties.

Cinema career

Back to the Future Trilogy

In Back to the Future (1985), Fox plays Marty McFly, a teenager who accidentally travels through time in a DeLorean sports car with the help of the flux capacitor. Spain, due to a translation error). Its plot is set in the times of 1985 and 1955. From the beginning of production, director Robert Zemeckis wanted Fox to be the one to play McFly, but the actor was then participating in the comedy series Family Ties, and its creator Gary David Goldberg refused to let Fox get involved in Back to the Future because he thought that, because the also star of his series Meredith Baxter was pregnant at that moment, the first it was essential for the program to continue in the absence of the actress. Therefore, Zemeckis hired Eric Stoltz who, although he shot some scenes for the film, later proved not to be the actor the filmmaker was looking for to play McFly, claiming that he was not convincing in the humor that the character required. With Baxter's return to Family Ties, Fox was in a better position to be involved in Back to the Future, so Zemeckis didn't hesitate to contact him immediately. It should be added that the latter filmed most of the scenes during sunsets and dusk, since Fox recorded his participation for Family Ties from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. m. to 6 p.m. m. That work schedule lasted two whole months. Upon its release, the film became both a critical and commercial success. In the latter regard, it spent eight consecutive weekends at the top of the US box office in 1985, grossing a total of $381.11 million worldwide. Variety praised the performances, commenting that the chemistry between Fox and Christopher Lloyd as McFly and Doc Brown, respectively, was reminiscent of that of the also fictional King Arthur and Merlin. Eventually, two sequels were produced: Back to the Future Part II (1989) and Back to the Future Part III (1990), which completed this film trilogy.

Although Zemeckis had no plans to direct sequels to Back to the Future, its success encouraged him to become involved in producing the sequel. However, he made it a condition to continue that Fox and Lloyd had to resume their characters. They agreed shortly thereafter. At some point in production, the producers decided to film two follow-up films to the original 1985 film at the same time, due to Fox being absent for an extended period from Family Ties, in addition to the fact that this would mean less cost. Because there were scenes in which the physical appearance of the actors had to be altered by time travel dictated by the plot, several hours were required in the makeup process.. Fox considered that this stage had been exhausting, "but it could have been worse", as he declared. Although they did not exceed the commercial success of the original, Back to the Future Part II grossed more than 330 million dollars. worldwide, and Back to the Future Part III grossed $244.5 million at the box office, and garnered mixed reviews not as positive as the 1985 film.

1980s

Before filming his scenes in Back to the Future, Fox starred in Teen Wolf (1985), produced by Atlantic Entertainment Group. In it he plays Scott Howard, a high school student who one day turns into a werewolf, so he uses that to his advantage to win his school basketball games. Its premiere occurred, however, almost two months after Back to the Future in American movie theaters. The intention of the producers in delaying the debut date was to take advantage of the success it had in Back to the Future to promote it as "the hottest property in Hollywood", in reference to his constant film roles in a short period of time. In total, it grossed approximately $80 million. USD, and received mixed reviews from the press. In his autobiography, Lucky Man: A Memoir (2001), the actor commented that he "didn't know what [I] was thinking". by participating in Teen Wolf.

Photograph by Fox taken in September 1987.

He then starred with Joan Jett in the drama Light of Day (1987), directed by Paul Schrader. Here, Fox plays Joe Rasnick, a rocker who decides to quit his career to help solve problems in his family. In addition, he wrote and recorded the song "You Got No Place to Go" which is part of the film's soundtrack. It had a modest commercial reception, grossing almost $10.5 million in the United States and Canada, and critics. he gave him mixed reviews. On Fox's performance, Janet Maslin of The New York Times said that "he's very interesting, and makes it clear he's comfortable with dramatic roles. However, his performance here is limited by the script, which makes Joe a relatively passive character." That same year, he starred in The Secret to My Success, directed by Herbert Ross., which represented Fox's return to comedy. His character is called Brantley Foster, and he is a college student who moves from his native Kansas to New York City to work as a financier. It was successful at the box office, grossing $110 million worldwide. Roger Ebert of The Chicago Sun Times commented on the film: "Fox provides a very desperate lynchpin for the film. It wouldn't have been much fun for him if he had followed the arbitrary mood swings, which went from sitcom to slapstick, and from sexual farce to boardroom brawls."

Michael J. Fox with his wife Tracy Pollan, at the Emmy Awards (August 1988).

His next production was Bright Lights, Big City, another drama directed this time by James Bridges. His role consisted of the corroborator for a New York magazine who usually goes to late-night parties and consumes drugs and alcohol, in the company of his friend, played by Kiefer Sutherland. It should be noted that Fox expressly asked the producers for the latter to participate with that role in the film. However, Fox had to return to the filming of Family Ties at that time, and this made the film Writer and then director Joyce Chopra will have only two and a half months to finish the project. This pressure led her to be indecisive in some takes. As an anecdote, she herself pointed out that at some point she panicked when filming on the streets of New York since Fox fans would break in upon seeing it and not allow the filming to take place. The producers were not convinced by the direction Chopra had taken, so they later replaced her with Bridges. In the midst of this change, they decided to remove some original scenes featuring Fox taking drugs, as "there was definitely a lot of pressure and interest at the time around the way America viewed Michael [J. Fox]". Upon its release, the film garnered mixed reviews. On the one hand, Hal Hinson of The Washington Post for example said that Fox had not been the right actor for the role, while Ebert praised his performance, citing the monologue he gives in the bar as one of the best scenes the actor had done so far. His girlfriend Tracy Pollan, who also starred in Family Ties, also participated in this film.

Before Back to the Future Part II was released, he appeared in Casualties of War (1989), a war drama directed by Brian De Palma about the war in Vietnam, where he assumed the role of Private Max Eriksson. Although it was a commercial failure, failing to recoup its full investment, it received generally good reviews. Various analysts such as Jeffrey M. Anderson, of the Celluloid Fuel website; Clint Morris of Film Threat; Steve Crum of Dispatch-Tribune Newspapers; and Luke Y. Thompson of The New York Times praised the performances of Fox and Sean Penn as the starring characters. His last production in the 1980s came with the follow-up to Back to the Future, late 1989.

1990-93

Immediately thereafter, Back to the Future Part III made its big screen debut, the last film in the trilogy about the young and scientific adventurer of time. The first half of the 1990s in Fox's career was marked by her appearances in various comedy films. In 1991, The Hard Way was released, where he acted together with James Woods and whose character is that of a movie star who, fed up with not being taken seriously in his roles, tries to act in a police series. To get a better sense of his new role, he signs up as a New York police officer. It was met with a modest reception upon its theatrical release, with critics giving Fox's and Woods' performances positive reviews. To cite one example, Owen Gleiberman of Entertainment Weekly magazine commented that the two had intense verbal performances in The Hard Way, and demonstrated "distinct and entertaining personalities...... which make] us happily sit back and wait for the spark to strike, but instead what we get is a lot of wet wood [in relation to the monotony of the plot]" That same year, in Doc Hollywood, he played Dr. Benjamin Stone, a talented doctor who one day decides to work as a plastic surgeon. Like the previous one, it had a favorable commercial reception, with critics mostly praising the role of the protagonist. Michael Caton-Jones of Time Out magazine said he had shown himself to be "in the best frenetic form of him" of him.

The next two films he starred in, in the romantic comedy genre, released in 1993, met with poor market reception, grossing no more than $25 million between them. The first, Life With Mikey, in which he plays Mickey Chapman, a former child movie star who works as an agent for new child actors, earned more than $12 million in the US and Canada, while For Love or Money, in which his character is that of a concierge who works in a hotel and dreams of opening his own, barely made US$11.1 million in the US. USA and Canada, when their investment had been USD 30 million. It should be noted that in the first cited comedy, Marc Lawrence served as one of the producers and scriptwriters; he had previously participated in a few episodes of Family Ties. For James Berardinelli of the Reelviews.net website: "Fox has never been a great comedic actor, but he usually does well (as in Back to the Future and Doc Hollywood). However, that doesn't happen in Life with Mickey. Although he could be parodying himself as a former teen TV star, his character is not convincing at all." Not so with For Love or Money , where various experts on the industry agreed that Fox's performance had been remarkable.

1994-96

Between 1994 and 1996, Fox landed supporting roles in several films that alternated between the drama and romantic comedy genres, with the notable exceptions of Greedy (1994), in which she starred with Kirk Douglas and Nancy Travis, and The Frighteners! (1996), in which she also starred. In the first, her character, Daniel McTeague, is a professional bowler who finds himself involved in family disputes over the inheritance of millionaire Joe McTeague, played by Douglas. It earned $13.1 million in the US and Canada, but received poor reviews from the press. Roger Piantadosi of The Washington Post mentioned in his review: "If you're a Michael J. Fox fan, [the film] won't disappoint, especially in its rants with the evil Douglas. If you're not, at least you'll be able to see him naked and not winning confrontations with him, as he struggles with his idea that "You can have everything you want, if you want nothing."

The other productions enjoyed modest commercial and critical reception. In 1994, before Greedy, he had a supporting role in the independent drama Where the Rivers Flow North, where he played Clayton Farnsworth, one of the executives of a construction company who wants to build a dam in a rural area whose owner refuses to give it up. It was poorly received in the US and Canada, grossing $595,505, although some critics gave it a favorable opinion of the production. The following year he had another minor role in Blue in the Face (1995), a tape shot with some scenes originally recorded for Smoke. Earning an estimated $1.2 million opening in 16 theaters in the US and Canada, and generally poor reviews, he co-produced the film Coldblooded (1995), with Larry Estes. where he acted as Tim Alexander. The film is about how a former bookie, played by Jason Priestley, becomes a hitman. It was poorly received, earning only $16,198, with David Kronke of the Los Angeles Times calling Fox's cameo "quirky". That year he ended with his role in the romantic drama The American President (1995), where he assumes the secondary character of Lewis Rothschild, the US president's assistant for national policy, played by Michael Douglas. The plot revolves around the electoral campaign of the current president towards a possible re-election. Upon its release, the film earned more than $60 million in the US and Canada, and $47.8 million in other countries, bringing the total gross to $107.8 million. reviews.

Her last film appearances occurred in 1996, in The Frighteners, directed by Peter Jackson and produced by Zemeckis, and in Tim Burton's Mars Attacks!. In the first, his character is the protagonist Frank Bannister, a widowed architect who is capable of seeing ghosts. He takes advantage of this quality to ask three ghosts, who become his friends, to haunt houses so that he can then act as a ghost hunter and get paid for his work. Initially, the filmmaker wanted The Frightners to be a low-budget film with a cast made up of actors unknown in popular culture, but Zemeckis opted to audition Fox, who stuck to it. ending with the starring role. It should be added that Fox was enthusiastic about this production, in particular for the fact of being able to work together with Jackson, after seeing Heavenly Creatures (1994) at the Toronto Film Festival. poor at the box office worldwide, grossing US$29.3 million in total, although Fox's performance received critical acclaim; Kenneth Turan of the Los Angeles Times wrote: "The actors in the film are satisfying. Both Fox, in her most successful leading role in a long time, and [Trini] Alvarado, who looks more like Andie MacDowell here, have no difficulty getting into the manic spirit of things." On the other hand, in Mars Attacks, he had a supporting role playing a reporter trying to save his girlfriend from an invasion of Martians. It should be noted that Johnny Depp would previously have that role, but he turned it down. Upon its release, it earned more than $101 million worldwide, and broadly mixed reviews. It was not until six years later, in 2002, that Fox returned to the cinema in his career, by participating in a cameo in the comedy Interstate 60. To this we must add that it represented the first production in which Fox returned to act together with Christopher Lloyd, his leading partner in Back to the Future . Reviewing the film, Daniel Stephens of Top10films.co.uk noted: "Although they both [Lloyd and Fox] have small roles here and never interact with each other, they bring an excellent quality to an already established cast. by great characters of the show". In addition, it was directed by Bob Gale, one of the writers responsible for Back to the Future . In general, the film had good reviews.

Trajectory in television

The hands of Michael J. Fox in front of The Great Movie Ride at the Disney's Hollywood Studios theme park, Walt Disney World.

Although his television career includes some appearances in different types of programs, he has also starred in a couple of series that came to be broadcast for more than five years (Family Ties and Spin City). In the first half of the 1990s, he hosted a broadcast of Saturday Night Live , starred in an episode of Tales from the Crypt , appeared in the special Sex, Buys & Advertising, which evaluates the advertising industry and starred in the telefilm Don't Drink the Water, directed by Woody Allen, which revolves around a family of tourists Americans who are trapped inside the European Iron Curtain. Here, his character is the clumsy son of the US ambassador. Previously, he was involved in some other episodes of series such as Lou Grant (in December 1979), Family (1980), The Love Boat (1983) and Night Court (1984). Between 1984 and 1986 he participated in three NBC productions (The Homemade Comedy Special, Poison Ivy and the David Letterman 2nd Annual Holiday Film Festival).

Spin City was broadcast from 1996 to 2002 on the American network ABC. The series is about a group of politicians running New York City, with Fox as Mike Flaherty, a New York deputy mayor law graduate. For this series, Fox won an Emmy Award in 2000, three Globe Awards Gold Awards in 1998, 1999, and 2000, and two SAG Awards in 1999 and 2000. During the third season of Spin City, Fox announced to the production team and cast that he had Parkinson's disease.. During the fourth season, he announced his retirement from the series to spend more time with his family, he announced that he planned to continue acting and would have guest appearances on Spin City (he made three more appearances during the season). last season). After leaving the series, he was replaced by Charlie Sheen, who played the character Charlie Crawford.In total, 145 episodes were made. Fox also executive produced his run on the series, along with creators Bill Lawrence and Gary David Goldberg.

In 2004, Fox guest-starred in two episodes of the sitcom Scrubs as Dr. Kevin Casey, a surgeon with severe obsessive-compulsive disorder. The series was created by the creator of Spin City, Bill Lawrence. In 2006, he appeared in four episodes of Boston Legal as a lung cancer patient. The producers called him back to have a regular role in the third season, starting from the first episode. Fox was nominated for an Emmy for Outstanding Guest Actor. In 2009, he appeared in five episodes of the series Rescue Me, for which he won an Emmy for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series. 2000 Fox has published three books: Lucky Man: A Memoir (2002), Always Looking Up: The Adventures of an Incurable Optimist (2009) and A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Future: Twists and Turns and Lessons Learned (2010). In 2010, he returned to television as a guest star in the drama The Good Wife.

He participated in the closing ceremony of the 2010 Vancouver Olympic Games and did stand-up comedy with William Shatner and Catherine O'Hara in the "I am Canadian' portion of the show.

Voice acting

His first voice acting occurred in 1990, when he served as the narrator of the video documentary Reach for the Stars 1990: The official Boston Bruins Video about the Boston Bruins ice hockey team. Later, in 1993, he played a bulldog named Chance in the production Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey, from Disney studios, in addition to narrating the story. the adventures of three pets who escape from a ranch in California to embark on a journey in search of their owners. He earned nearly $42 million in the United States and Canada alone. He reprized his role three years later in the sequel Homeward Bound II: Lost in San Francisco (1996), where Chance and his friends must return once more to their homes, after being stranded at San Francisco International Airport. It grossed less than its predecessor ($32.7 million in the US and Canada), and was met with mixed reviews.

After Fox stopped acting in movies, in the late 1990s, he provided his voice more recurringly in various television productions, and in animated feature films. In 1999, he played the lead mouse in Stuart Little, whose box office success brought in more than $300 million worldwide. Director Rob Minkoff (who had previously directed The The Lion King for Disney, along with Roger Allers) chose Fox to play the title character, with the same name as the film, because "you could see he had the personality to match Stuart's proactive attitude: very positive, sincere, successful". Christopher Tooker, of the British newspaper Daily Mail , mentioned in his review that "I'm not entirely sure if Fox's voice is right for Stuart, as he is somewhat of a teenager, but it captures the essence of Stuart: that he is energetic, brave and willing to follow his dream." The actor reprized this character in the second and third parts, released in 2002 and 2006, respectively. The latter was not shown in movie theaters, but had a direct distribution in home video format. Meanwhile, Stuart Little 2 earned $160 million.

In 2001, he played the protagonist Milo James Thatch in Atlantis: The Lost Empire, produced by Disney, whose plot recounts the exploits of the aforementioned cartographer, and his work team, in search of the legendary Atlantis. One of his directors, Kirk Wise, noted that he had chosen Fox because he felt he gave each character he played a unique personality, which made him more believable to an audience. On the other hand, the actor commented that it was easier for him to act with his voice than to participate in live action films, since he did not have to worry about what his appearance was when he was in front of the recording cameras while acting. Louise Keller, from Australian website Urbancinefile.com, called Fox's voice acting here "wonderful", a film that grossed more than $186 million worldwide. The following year, in addition to participating in Stuart Little 2 , he voiced a talking kidney in the episode "Escape to Beer Mountain: A Rope of Sand" of the television series Clone High School, a joint production of MTV and Teletoon. Finally, in 2011 he played two secondary characters in the video game Back to the Future: The Game. It should be added that Telltale, the studio responsible for the game, decided to donate one USD for each pre-sold copy of the game to the Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research, as part of its promotional strategy al.

Private life

The Michael J. Fox Theatre in Burnaby.

On July 16, 1988, Fox married actress Tracy Pollan in an intimate ceremony at the West Mountain Inn, a small country hotel in Arlington, Vermont. The couple have four children: Sam Michael, born in 1989; twins Aquinnah Kathleen and Schuyler Frances, born in 1995; and Esmé Annabelle, born in 1997. The actor, who has dual Canadian and American citizenship, was enthusiastically received during the closing ceremony of the Vancouver Winter Olympics on February 28, 2010, when he expressed his love for for his homeland and stated that, although he lived in the United States, he continued to support the Canadian hockey team. In June of the same year, the city of Burnaby, British Columbia, awarded him the Keys to the City. He currently lives in NY. On October 21, 2015 he was the first customer to try on the Nike Air MAG, a real version of Nike's shoe with robo-laces from the movie Back to the Future Part II .

Disease and activism

Fox presented the first symptoms of Parkinson's disease in 1990, during the filming of the movie Doc Hollywood, although he was not diagnosed until the following year. drink more than before; although he eventually decided to seek help and stopped drinking altogether. In 1998, he decided to go public with his health status and thereafter became a strong supporter of Parkinson's disease-related research. In 2000 he established The Michael J. Fox Foundation, a foundation dedicated to supporting Parkinson's research, which as of 2012 has donated $250 million for this purpose, becoming, according to Forbes magazine, the second largest donor for Parkinson's disease research in the United States after the Government.

Fox controls Parkinson's symptoms with the drug Sinemet, and in 1998 he underwent a thalamotomy. His first book, Lucky Man, focused on how, after seven years of denial, accepted the disease, created the Michael J. Fox Foundation, stopped drinking, and began fighting for Parkinson's patients. In Lucky Man, Fox wrote that he did not take his medication before taking his exam. testimony before the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee in 1998:

I made a deliberate decision to appear before the Subcommittee without medication. It seemed to me that the occasion demanded that my testimony on the effects of illness and the urgency we felt as a community, be seen as well as ears. For people who had never seen me in that state, the transformation must have been surprising.

Michael J. Fox, Lucky Man.

In an April 2002 interview for NPR, Fox explained what he does when symptoms appear during an interview:

Well, actually, I've been sinning over caution—I think that "sinning" is really the right word—because maybe I've been medicationing too much, in the sense [that]... the symptoms... that people see that I've had in some of those interviews are truly divisive, which is a [secondary] effect of the medication. Because if you were purely symptomatic with Parkinson's symptoms, often speaking is difficult. There is a kind of anomaly in the oral expression and it is very difficult to sit still in one place. You know, the symptoms are different, I suffer more from the symptoms of dysynaetic... this kind of zigzagging movement and that kind of constant activity is really preferable than the pure symptoms of Parkinson. So that's what I usually do... I have had no problem with the symptoms of pure Parkinson in any of those interviews, because I assure myself that I have enough Sinemet in my system and, in some cases, too much. But for me, it's preferable. It doesn't represent what I am in my everyday life. A lot of people with Parkinson approach me and say, "You take too much medication." I say, "Well, sit in front of Larry King and see if you want to provoke him."

Interview of April 30, 2002, Fresh Air, NPR

In 2006, Fox starred in an ad campaign for Missouri State Auditor Claire McCaskill, a Democratic Senate candidate who ran against Republican incumbent Jim Talent, expressing her support for stem cell research. In the ad, you can see the effects of medication for Parkinson's.

As you know, I am deeply concerned about stem cell research. In Missouri, you can choose Claire McCaskill, who shares my healing hope. Unfortunately, Senator Jim Talent is opposed to expanding research with stem cells. Senator Talent even wanted to criminalize the science that gives us the opportunity to have hope. They say all political matters are local, but that's not always the case. What you do in Missouri cares about millions of Americans, Americans like me.

Michael J. Fox's announcement for Claire McCaskill's campaign.

The New York Times called it "one of the most powerful and talked about political ads in years," and polls indicated the ad had a measurable impact on how voters voted in a few election which McCaskill won. His second book, Always Looking Up: The Adventures Of An Incurable Optimist, describes her life between 1999 and 2009, much of the book focuses on how Fox got into the campaigns for stem cell research. On March 31, 2009, Fox appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show with Dr. Oz to speak publicly about his illness, his book, his family, and a special broadcast on May 7, 2009 (Michael J. Fox: Adventures of an Incurable Optimist).

His work led to his being named one of the 100 people "whose power, talent or moral example is transforming the world" in 2007 by Time magazine. On March 5, 2010, Fox received an honorary MD from the Karolinska Institutet for his contributions to Parkinson's disease research. He also received an honorary MD from the University of British Columbia. On May 31, 2012, he received the degree honorary doctor of law award from the British Columbia Institute of Justice in recognition of his achievements as an actor, as well as his commitment to increasing research funding and awareness of Parkinson's disease.

On June 22, 2022, it was announced that he would be awarded the Jean Hersolt Humanitarian Award along with Peter Weir and Diane Warren's Honorary Oscar.

Filmography

Awards and nominations

Oscars

Primetime Emmy Awards

Golden Globe Awards

Screen Actors Guild Awards

Genie Awards

• Canada, the United States equivalent of the Oscars.

Gemini Awards

• Canada, the United States equivalent Emmy Awards.
• Nominated for Best actor - series of comedy by Family Ties.
• Best actor nominee - Spin City comedy series.

Other awards

Canada's Walk of Fame

• 2000: Included in the Paseo de la Fama de Canada

Hollywood Walk of Fame

• 2002: Star on the Paseo de la Fama – 7021 Hollywood Blvd.

Saturn Awards

• 1985: Winner, Best actor - Back to the Future

People's Choice Awards

• 1997: Winner, Best actor in a new television series

Satellite Awards

• 1997: Nominee, Best Actor - Musical or Comedy - Spin City
• 1998: Nominee, Best Actor - Musical or Comedy - Spin City
• 1999: Nominee, Best Actor - Musical or Comedy - Spin City

Honorary degrees

• 2008: Doctorate in Fine Arts, honoris causaUniversity of New York
• 2008: Doctorate in Laws, honoris causaUniversity of British Columbia
• 2010: Doctorate honoris causa, Karolinska Institute

Grammy Awards

• 2010: Winner, Best spoken album – Always Looking Up: Adventures of An Incurable Optimist

Verleihung der Goldenen Kamera

• 2011: Goldene Kamera für Lebenswerk (Premio a la Path), German film and television award.

Honorary Distinctions

• Order of Canada Officer (Ottawa, 27 May 2011).

Books

• Fox, Michael J. (2002). [http://books.google.com/books?id=lr_6bduXfpAC fakedq=michael+j+fox terminahl=enei=I6FyTLHeCIytOIvm5IUH strangersa=X pretendoi=book_resultsnum=1 novel=0CCUir Man6AEwAA Lucky]. New York: Hyperion. ISBN 978-0786764-6.
• Fox, Michael J. (2009). Always Looking Up: The adventures of an Incurable Optimist. New York: Hyperion. ISBN 978-140130338-9.
• Fox, Michael J. (2010). A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Future: Twists and Turns and Lessons Learned. New York: Hyperion. ISBN 978-140132386-8.