Michael J. Fox

Tuesday, January 01, 1985

Michael J. Fox was born in Canada in 1961 and moved to the United States in 1979 to pursue an acting career. Fox is an Emmy award winning actor who starred on television including Family Ties (1986-1988) and Spin City (1996-2002) as well as the films Back to the Future (1985, 1989, 1990), Casualties of War (1989), The American President (1995), Mars Attacks! (1996), and Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie (2023). Fox is an activist who created the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research in response to his own personal diagnosis with Parkinson’s in 1991. In 2025, Fox was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.