MICHAEL J FOX. The actor of “Back to the future” looks back on Parkinson’s disease, which he suffers from, in a documentary to be discovered on May 12.
[Mis à jour le 11 avril 2023 à 9h16] Michael J. Fox promises to deliver as rarely. The interpreter of Marty McFly in the saga Back to the future confides in Parkinson in the documentary Still, posted on Apple TV+ on May 12, 2023. Michael J. Fox gradually looks back on his life in the face of this disease which is causing him to lose his motor skills. Also in this documentary, the actor explains that he hid his illness, before putting his fame to the service of research. He officially retired from acting in 2020.
In excerpts shared by Rolling Stone magazine, the 61-year-old comedian, who has retired from the profession, details how he discovered at the age of 29 that he had Parkinson’s disease: “Fox notices that the little finger of his left hand is moving. Not just moving: it is rapidly “self-animating”. He watches the dancing finger, mesmerized by the impression of watching someone else’s finger do this, someone else’s hand, tied to someone else’s body. […] His body is starting, very slowly and subtly, to betray him.”
Biography of Michael J. Fox – Born in 1961 in Edmonton (Canada), Michael Andrew Fox known as Michael J. Fox is the son of actress Phyllis Fox. He rose to fame in his native country thanks to his role in the series “Leo and me” before settling in the United States where he played in many TV movies or popular series such as “Palmerstown, USA” and ” Holy family”. He made his first film appearance in Disney’s “Midnight Madness”.
but it was in 1985 that he broke the screen in the role of Marty McFly for the film “Back to the future”. follow “Back to the Future II” in 1989 and “Back to the Future III” in 1990, a trilogy by Robert Zemeckis. During the 1980s, he participated in several projects such as the films “Teen Wolf”, “The Secret of my success”, “The Fires of the Night” or even “Outrages”. The following decade, the actor was on the bill of a large number of films such as “The President and Miss Wade”, “Mars Attacks!”, “The Incredible Trip to San Francisco”, “Ghosts Against Ghosts” among others. Then he turned to the small screen and obtained a role in the series “Spin City” in 1996. Although his career declined, the actor remained active in the 2000s. He lent his voice in the animated films “Stuart Little” and appeared in series such as “Scrubs” and “The Good Wife”. Her last film role dates back to 2019, with the film See you yesterday.
It was on the set of Doc Hollywood in 1991 that Michael J. Fox realized he was suffering from uncontrolled tremors. He is only 29 years old. The actor reveals to the general public seven years later that he has Parkinson’s disease, a disease he was diagnosed in 1991, and which is becoming increasingly difficult to control. In his memoirs, No time like the futuretranscribed by the Los Angeles Times in November 2020, Michael J. Fox explained that “there is a time for everything, and it’s time to put behind me the 12-hour days of work, having to memorize 7 pages of dialogue. If this is going to be the end of my acting career, so be it.” “My short-term memory is in pieces, he evokes in the columns of the magazine People on the occasion of the promotion of his memoirs. I’ve always been good at retaining and learning my lines. I experienced extremely difficult situations during my last jobs, which were roles with really many words. I really had to fight to get there.”
Michael J. Fox met actress Tracy Pollan on the set of the Sacred Family series in 1985. They met on the set of Nightfire, and quickly became a couple. They have been married since 1988. Together, Michael J. Fox and Tracy Pollan had four children, a boy and three girls.