Michael Douglas

Son of screen legend Kirk Douglas, Michael Douglas has been a familiar leading man of the screen since he played a young, hip cop in the TV series The Streets of San Francisco (1972-77). He left the show in 1975 to produce the feature film One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (based on the novel by Ken Kesey and starring Jack Nicholson). The film went on to win 5 Oscars, and Douglas became a successful producer as well as a movie star, a reliable box office star throughout the '80s and early '90s. His top films as a leading man include The China Syndrome (1979, with Jane Fonda), Romancing the Stone (1984), Fatal Attraction (1987, with Glenn Close), an Oscar for his role in Wall Street (1987, directed by Oliver Stone) and Basic Instinct (1992, starring Sharon Stone). Since the late '90s he's appeared in The Wonder Boys (2000, starring Tobey Maguire), Steven Soderbergh's Traffic (2000) and The Sentinel (2006, starring Kiefer Sutherland).

Extra credit: He married actress Catherine Zeta-Jones in 2000.