Editing Michael Douglas (section)

==Early life and education==
Douglas was born in [[New Brunswick, New Jersey]], the first child of actors [[Kirk Douglas]] (1916–2020) and [[Diana Douglas|Diana Dill]] (1923–2015).<ref>{{cite web|first=Bill|last=Hutchison|url=http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/gossip/douglas-reveals-anti-semitic-attack-teen-son-article-1.2150236|title=Michael Douglas reveals anti-Semitic attack on 14-year-old son Dylan in Europe|work=[[New York Daily News]]|date=March 16, 2015|access-date=May 10, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|first=Richard|last=Barber|url=https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2016/oct/07/michael-douglas-kirk-was-film-star-first-father-second|title=Michael Douglas: 'Kirk was film star first, father second'|work=[[The Guardian]]|date=October 7, 2016|access-date=May 10, 2018}}</ref> His parents met at the [[American Academy of Dramatic Arts]].<ref name=guardian.co.uk>{{cite news|last=Brooks|first=Xan|title=Michael Douglas on Liberace, Cannes, cancer and cunnilingus|url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2013/jun/02/michael-douglas-liberace-cancer-cunnilingus|newspaper=The Guardian|date=June 2, 2013}}</ref>

His father was [[Jewish]] and was born ''Issur Danielovitch''. Michael's paternal grandparents were emigrants from [[Chavusy]] in the [[Russian Empire]] (present-day [[Belarus]]).<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.thejc.com/lifestyle/interviews/hollywood-gladiator-kirk-douglas-has-his-eyes-set-on-a-third-barmitzvah-1.36378|title=Hollywood gladiator Kirk Douglas has his eyes set on a third barmitzvah|access-date=May 25, 2018|date=September 20, 2012|last=Paskin|first=Barbra|work=[[The Jewish Chronicle]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|first=Brad|last=Darrach|url=http://people.com/archive/kirk-douglas-vol-30-no-14/|title=Kirk Douglas|work=[[People (magazine)|People]]|date=October 3, 1988|access-date=May 25, 2018}}</ref><ref name="kdouglas">{{cite news|last=Tugend |first=Tom |title=Lucky number 90 |work=The Jerusalem Post |date=December 12, 2006 |url=http://fr.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1164881875567&pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull |access-date=December 12, 2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110713123853/http://fr.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1164881875567&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull |archive-date=July 13, 2011 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|first=Rose Troup|last=Buchanan|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/michael-douglas-accepts-jewish-nobel-prize-despite-not-being-jewish-under-religious-laws-10331037.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220512/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/michael-douglas-accepts-jewish-nobel-prize-despite-not-being-jewish-under-religious-laws-10331037.html |archive-date=May 12, 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=Michael Douglas accepts 'Jewish Nobel Prize' despite not being Jewish under religious laws|work=[[The Independent]]|date=June 19, 2015|access-date=May 25, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|first=Ben|last=Sales|url=https://www.jta.org/2015/06/17/arts-entertainment/michael-douglas-i-never-felt-accepted-as-a-jew|title=Michael Douglas: I 'never felt accepted' as a Jew|work=JTA – Jewish news|date=June 17, 2015|access-date=May 10, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|first=Hadley|last=Freeman|url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/feb/12/kirk-douglas-i-never-thought-id-live-to-100-thats-shocked-me|title=Kirk Douglas: 'I never thought I'd live to 100. That's shocked me'|work=[[The Guardian]]|date=February 12, 2017|access-date=May 25, 2018}}</ref> His mother was from [[Devonshire Parish, Bermuda]], and had English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, French, Belgian, and Dutch ancestry.<ref>''In the wings: a memoir'', 1999, by Diana Douglas Darrid, p. 17</ref> Douglas' uncle was politician Sir [[Nicholas Bayard Dill]], and Douglas' maternal grandfather, Lieutenant-Colonel [[Thomas Melville Dill]], served as [[Attorney General]] of Bermuda, as a [[Member of Parliament|Member]] of the [[Parliament of Bermuda]] (MCP), and as commanding officer of the [[Bermuda Militia Artillery]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.conovergenealogy.com/Pages/douglas.html|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120629005823/http://www.conovergenealogy.com/Pages/douglas.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=June 29, 2012|title=Ancestors of Michael Kirk Douglas|publisher=Conovergenealogy.com|access-date=October 17, 2009}}</ref> Douglas is a US citizen by birth in the United States and has [[Law of Bermuda|Bermudian Status]] from his mother's birth in [[Bermuda]].<ref name= "doiapps.gov.bm">{{cite web| url= https://www.doiapps.gov.bm/statuscheck/StatusResult.aspx?result=yes&NameStr=Michael+K+Douglas%2c+09%2f25%2f1944 |title= Status Check: Michael K. Douglas| quote= Our records indicate that Michael K Douglas, 09/25/1944 has Bermudian status.| website= doiapps.gov.bm| publisher= Department of Immigration, Bermuda| archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20150926004851/https://www.doiapps.gov.bm/statuscheck/StatusResult.aspx?result=yes&NameStr=Michael+K+Douglas%2c+09%2f25%2f1944 |archivedate=September 26, 2015 }}</ref> 
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His great-grandfather, Thomas Newbold Dill (1837–1910), was a merchant, an MCP for Devonshire Parish from 1868 to 1888, a member of the legislative council and an assistant justice from 1888, mayor of the [[Hamilton, Bermuda|City of Hamilton]] from 1891 to 1897, served on numerous committees and boards, and was a member of the Devonshire Church (Church of England) and Devonshire Parish vestries. Thomas Newbold Dill's father, another Thomas Melville Dill, was a sea captain who took the Bermudian-built barque ''Sir George F. Seymour'' from Bermuda to Ireland in thirteen days in March 1858, but lost his master's certificate after the wreck of the Bermudian-built ''Cedrine'' on the [[Isle of Wight]] while returning the last convict laborers from the [[Royal Naval Dockyard, Bermuda|Royal Naval Dockyard]] in Bermuda to Britain in 1863.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.bnt.bm/BNTonline_store/trust_publications.htm |title=''Bermuda's Architectural Heritage: Hamilton Parish'', Author: Diana Chudleigh, Editor: David L. White. Published by: The Bermuda National Trust, 2002 |access-date=December 30, 2016 |archive-date=August 15, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110815120233/http://www.bnt.bm/BNTonline_store/trust_publications.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref> The current (installed on 29 May 2013) [[Bishop of Bermuda]], the Right Reverend Nicholas Dill, is a cousin of Michael Douglas.<ref name="bermudasun.bm">{{Cite web|url=http://www.bermudasun.bm/Content/News/Latest-News/Photo_Gallery/Bishop-Nicholas-Dill-s-Consecration--May-2013/3/1297/617|title='' Nicholas Dill becomes youngest Bishop of Bermuda'', The Bermuda Sun|accessdate=July 10, 2024}}</ref><ref name="anglicancommunion.org">{{Cite web|url=http://www.anglicancommunion.org/tour/diocese.cfm?Idind=756|title=Page not found &#124; Anglican Communion|accessdate=July 10, 2024}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.anglicannews.org/news/2013/05/movie-stars-congratulate-new-bermuda-bishop.aspx|title=Movie stars congratulate new Bermuda bishop|accessdate=July 10, 2024}}</ref>

Douglas has a younger brother, [[Joel Douglas]] (born 1947), and two paternal half-brothers, [[Peter Douglas]] (born 1955) and [[Eric Douglas]] (1958–2004), from stepmother [[Anne Buydens]].

Douglas attended [[Allen-Stevenson School|The Allen-Stevenson School]] in [[New York City]], [[Eaglebrook School]] in [[Deerfield, Massachusetts]], and [[Choate Rosemary Hall|The Choate Preparatory School]] (now Choate Rosemary Hall) in [[Wallingford, Connecticut]]. He received his [[Bachelor of Arts|B.A.]] in dramatic art from the [[University of California, Santa Barbara]] in 1968,<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.news.ucsb.edu/2004/011812/michael-douglas-donates-1-million-uc-santa-barbara |title=Michael Douglas Donates $1 Million to UC Santa Barbara |last=Conrad |first=Eileen |date=February 2, 2004 |website=news.ucsb.edu |accessdate=May 10, 2022}}</ref> where he was also the honorary president of the UCSB [[Alumni association|Alumni Association]]. He studied acting with [[Wynn Handman]] at [[The American Place Theatre]] in New York City.<ref name=Edelman/><ref name="douglasbiobyparker">{{cite book |last1=Parker |first1=John |title=Michael Douglas: Acting on Instinct |date=2011 |publisher=Headline (Hachette Book Group) |isbn=9780755362868 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=o541AgAAQBAJ |access-date=1 December 2019}}</ref>