Beginning his career in the 1970s, he first rose to prominence for portraying Alex P. Fox, is a Canadian-American retired actor, author, film producer, and activist. "But make no mistake, it is his greatest performance.Michael Andrew Fox OC (born June 9, 1961), known professionally as Michael J. Fox never asked for the role: Parkinson's patient or disease advocate," said fellow actor Woody Harrelson, who presented the award to Fox during the Governors Awards ceremony in 2022. In November, Fox received an honorary Oscar, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science's Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award, for his advocacy of research on Parkinson's disease. Such day-to-day challenges have had him "thinking about the mortality of it." "You don't die from Parkinson's - you die with Parkinson's." "All these subtle ways that get ya," he said. (Netflix eventually funded a pickup day, allowing Fox to complete his scene once he recovered.)ĭuring the interview, he explained how falling "is a big killer with Parkinson's," along with "aspirating food and getting pneumonia." In his 2020 book, No Time Like The Future: An Optimist Considers Mortality, Fox shared how one of those serious falls forced him to miss a cameo in the 2019 Spike Lee-produced movie See You Yesterday. "Broke this arm, and I broke this arm, I broke this elbow, I broke my face. and then, started to break stuff," Fox said during the CBS interview. The process has been rough and has led to scary falls in recent years. Fox Show, and appearing in supporting roles in the hit shows The Good Wife, Designated Survivor and Curb Your Enthusiasm.īut Fox's health has deteriorated since he underwent a risky spinal surgery in 2018 to remove a tumour, unrelated to Parkinson's. He continued acting, starring in six seasons of the political comedy Spin City, voicing the memorable rodent protagonist of Stuart Little, playing the titular character in NBC's short-lived Michael J. I mean, you know, who do I see about that?"įox, 61, was diagnosed with Parkinson's when he was 29, a moment he recalled as "scary" when he was still fresh off the successes of the Back To The Future franchise and sitcom Family Ties. "It's banging on the door," Fox tells Jane Pauley during a CBS News Sunday Morning interview recently. Fox had recently been thinking about the mortality associated with Parkinson's, the disease he's dealt with for the last 30 years.
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