How Old Is Michael J. Fox? Michael J. Fox Birthday
Michael J. Fox was born on June 9, 1961 and is 62 years old now.
Birthday: June 9, 1961
How Old - Age: 62
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Is Michael J. Fox's father, William Fox, dead or alive?
Michael J. Fox's father, William Fox, died on September 20, 2008 as he was 97 years old.
Is Michael J. Fox's mother, Phyllis Piper, dead or alive?
Phyllis Piper's information is not available now.
Michael J. Fox - Biography
Michael Andrew Fox, OC, known as Michael J. Fox, is a Canadian-American actor, author, producer, and advocate. With a film and television career spanning from the 1970s, Fox's roles have included Marty McFly from the Back to the Future trilogy; Alex P. Keaton from NBC's Family Ties (1982-1989), for which he won three Emmy Awards and a Golden Globe Award; and Mike Flaherty in ABC's Spin City (1996-2001), for which he won an Emmy, three Golden Globes, and two Screen Actors Guild Awards.
Fox started displaying symptoms of early-onset Parkinson's disease in 1991 while shooting the movie Doc Hollywood, although he was not properly diagnosed until the next year. After his diagnosis, Fox started drinking heavily. He sought help and stopped drinking altogether. In 1998, he decided to go public about his Parkinson's disease, and since then, he has been a strong advocate of Parkinson's disease research. His foundation, The Michael J. Fox Foundation, was created to help advance every promising research path to curing Parkinson's disease, including embryonic stem cell studies.
Fox manages the symptoms of his Parkinson's disease with the drug carbidopa/levodopa, and he also had a thalamotomy in 1998. His first book, Lucky Man, focused on how, after seven years of denial of the disease, he set up the Michael J. Fox Foundation, stopped drinking and began to be an advocate for people living with Parkinson's disease.
In 2016, his organization the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research created a raffle to raise awareness for Parkinson's disease and raised $6.75 million, with the help of Nike via two auctions, one in Hong Kong and the other in London.
