Editing Michael J. Fox (section)

== Personal life ==
[[File:Michael J Fox Tracy Pollan2.jpeg|thumb|right|upright|Fox with [[Tracy Pollan]] at the [[40th Primetime Emmy Awards]]<ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.emmys.com/celebrities/michael-j-fox| title=Michael J. Fox| website=[[Academy of Television Arts & Sciences]]| access-date=December 26, 2011| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111226055318/http://www.emmys.com/celebrities/michael-j-fox| archive-date=December 26, 2011| url-status=live}}</ref> in August 1988 shortly after they were married]]

=== Marriage and family ===
Fox met his wife, [[Tracy Pollan]], when she played the role of his girlfriend, Ellen, on ''Family Ties''.<ref name=AARPMag/> They were married on July 16, 1988, at West Mountain Inn in [[Arlington, Vermont]].<ref>{{cite magazine| title=Michael J. Fox and Tracy Pollan Are True to Each Other, but This Is a Fake Photo—and Thereby Hangs a Tale| first=Susan| last=Reed| url=http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20099585,00.html| magazine=[[People (magazine)|People]]| date=August 1, 1988| volume=30| issue=5| access-date=March 5, 2013| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130730044742/http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20099585,00.html| archive-date=July 30, 2013| url-status=live}}</ref> The couple have four children: one son and three daughters.<ref>{{cite magazine| url=http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20116124,00.html| date=December 4, 1989| volume=32| issue=23| title=Getting Back to His Future| first=Michael| last=Alexander| magazine=People| access-date=March 5, 2013| archive-date=October 1, 2020| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201001141231/https://people.com/archive/cover-story-getting-back-to-his-future-vol-32-no-23/| url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine| url=http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20105213,00.html| title=Passages| first=Mary| last=Huzinec| date=March 6, 1995| magazine=People| access-date=March 5, 2013| url-status=dead| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130730042352/http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20105213,00.html| archive-date=July 30, 2013| df=mdy-all}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine| url=http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20135756,00.html| date=November 19, 2001| volume=56| issue=21| title=21st Century Fox| magazine=People| access-date=March 5, 2013| archive-date=November 16, 2018| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181116101409/https://people.com/archive/21st-century-fox-vol-56-no-21/| url-status=live}}</ref> Shortly before the couple's marriage, Fox purchased an estate named Lottery Hill Farm in [[South Woodstock, Vermont]],<ref>{{cite news |title=Michael J. Fox's one-time Vermont farm listed at $2.75 million |url=https://www.beaconjournal.com/story/entertainment/local/2013/04/15/michael-j-fox-s-one/10542284007/ |access-date=August 16, 2024 |newspaper=[[Akron Beacon Journal]] |date=April 15, 2013}}</ref> which he listed in 2012.<ref>{{cite news |last=Effron |first=Harris |title=Vermont Farm Previously Owned by Michael J. Fox (House of the Day) |url=https://www.aol.com/news/2012-09-17-vermont-farm-previously-owned-by-michael-j-fox-house-of-the-da.html |access-date=August 16, 2024 |website=[[AOL]] |date=September 17, 2012}}</ref> In 1997, Fox purchased an apartment on [[Fifth Avenue]] within the Manhattan<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Cheever |first=Susan |author-link=Susan Cheever |title=Michael J. Fox's Manhattan Apartment Features Picturesque Views of Central Park |url=https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/michael-j-fox-tracy-pollan-new-york-apartment-article |access-date=August 16, 2024 |magazine=[[Architectural Digest]] |date=October 1997}}</ref> neighbourhood of [[Upper East Side]],<ref>{{cite magazine |url=http://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/michael-j-fox-tracy-pollan-manhattan-home-article |title=Michael J. Fox and Tracy Pollan's Manhattan Home |magazine=[[Architectural Digest]] |date=November 20, 2012 |access-date=October 22, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150928191739/http://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/michael-j-fox-tracy-pollan-manhattan-home-article |archive-date=September 28, 2015 |url-status=live}}</ref> where he and his family lived primarily until 2020. The same year, Fox and Pollan built<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Collins |first=Nancy |title=Tour Michael J. Fox and Tracy Pollan's Cozy Family Home in New England |url=https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/michael-j-fox-article-062000 |access-date=August 16, 2024 |magazine=[[Architectural Digest]] |date=June 2000}}</ref> an estate in [[Sharon, Connecticut]], which he listed in 2016.<ref>{{cite news |last=Ryan |first=Lidia |title=Michael J. Fox's Connecticut estate is on the market |url=https://www.ctpost.com/realestate/article/Michael-J-Fox-s-Connecticut-estate-is-on-the-9204942.php |access-date=August 16, 2024 |newspaper=[[Connecticut Post]] |date=September 6, 2016}}</ref> In 2007, Fox purchased a house in [[Quogue, New York]],<ref>{{cite news |last=Hunsecker |first=J. J. |title=Michael J. Fox Can't Wait Until His Hedgerow Grows |url=https://guestofaguest.com/new-york/real-estate/michael-j-fox-cant-wait-until-his-hedgerow-grows |access-date=August 16, 2024 |website=[[Guest of a Guest]] |date=March 26, 2008}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://hookedonhouses.net/2008/04/01/michael-j-fox-house-quogue-southampton/ |title=Michael J. Fox and Tracy Pollan at Home in the Hamptons |first=Julia |last=Sweeten |website=HookedOnHouses.net |date=April 1, 2008 |access-date=August 20, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190820215754/https://hookedonhouses.net/2008/04/01/michael-j-fox-house-quogue-southampton/ |archive-date=August 20, 2019 |url-status=live}}</ref> where he and his family lived part-time and spent the early months of the [[COVID-19 pandemic in the United States|COVID-19 pandemic]].<ref>{{cite news |last=Egan |first=Elisabeth |title=When It Comes to Living With Uncertainty, Michael J. Fox Is a Pro |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/13/books/michael-j-fox-no-time-like-the-future.html |access-date=August 16, 2024 |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |date=November 13, 2020}}</ref> In 2021, Fox sold the house<ref>{{cite news |last=Lovece |first=Frank |author-link=Frank Lovece |title=Michael J. Fox used alcohol to hide from Parkinson's |url=https://www.newsday.com/entertainment/celebrities/michael-j-fox-documentary-axorsd9a |access-date=August 16, 2024 |newspaper=[[Newsday]] |date=January 23, 2023}}</ref> and moved to [[Santa Barbara, California]], with his family; they took up residence in [[Malibu, California|Malibu]] several months later.<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Nahas |first=Aili |title=Michael J. Fox Opens Up About His Health, Life with Tracy Pollan: 'I'm in a Really Good Groove' |url=https://people.com/tv/michael-j-fox-opens-up-health-beautiful-life-with-wife-tracy-pollan/ |access-date=August 16, 2024 |magazine=[[People (magazine)|People]] |date=October 20, 2021}}</ref>

=== Citizenship and politics ===
Fox became a US citizen in 2000<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/fox-i-was-over-medicated-in-stem-cell-ad/ |title=Fox: I Was Over-Medicated In Stem Cell Ad |website=[[CBS News]] |date=October 26, 2006 |access-date=January 26, 2011 |first=Alfonso |last=Serrano |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110218083306/http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/10/26/eveningnews/main2128188.shtml |archive-date=February 18, 2011 |url-status=live}}</ref> but retains his Canadian citizenship.<ref name=CAN>{{cite news|url=http://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/michael-j-fox-q-a-1.4017957|title=Michael J. Fox on his Canadian pride and why he speaks out|publisher=[[CBC News]]|date=March 9, 2017|access-date=May 4, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180603211419/http://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/michael-j-fox-q-a-1.4017957|archive-date=June 3, 2018|url-status=live}}</ref> He provided a light-hearted segment during the [[2010 Winter Olympics]]' closing ceremony in Vancouver on February 28, 2010, when he expressed how proud he is to be Canadian.<ref name="montrealgazette1" /> On June 4, 2010, the city of [[Burnaby]] granted him the [[Freedom of the City]].<ref name="Burnaby">{{cite web |url=http://www.city.burnaby.bc.ca/residents/about/hstryh/freeman/michael-j-fox.html |title=Michael J. Fox Awarded Freeman Status |website=City of Burnaby |date=June 14, 2010 |access-date=August 22, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110706165651/http://www.city.burnaby.bc.ca/residents/about/hstryh/freeman/michael-j-fox.html |archive-date=July 6, 2011}}</ref> Fox endorsed [[Pete Buttigieg]] prior to the [[2020 United States presidential election]].<ref name="deadline.com">[https://deadline.com/2020/02/democratic-candidates-endorsements-hollywood-celebrities-media-chart-1202869881/ Who’s Backing Whom? Tracking Democratic Presidential Candidates’ Celebrity Endorsements]</ref>

=== Parkinson's disease ===
Fox started displaying symptoms of early-onset [[Parkinson's disease]] in early 1991 while shooting the film ''[[Doc Hollywood]]'' and was diagnosed shortly thereafter.<ref name="QuitsSpinCity" /> Though his initial symptoms were only a twitching little finger and a sore shoulder, he was told that within a few years he would not be able to work. The causes of Parkinson's disease are not well understood, and may include genetic and environmental factors. Fox is one of at least four members of the cast and crew of ''[[Leo and Me]]'' who developed early-onset Parkinson's. According to Fox, this is not enough people to be defined as a [[Cluster analysis|cluster]] so it has not been well researched. In 2020, he told [[Hadley Freeman]] of ''[[The Guardian]]'': "I can think of a thousand possible scenarios: I used to go fishing in a river near [[paper mill]]s and eat the [[salmon]] I caught; I've been to a lot of farms; I smoked a lot of [[Cannabis (drug)|pot]] in high school when the government was [[Paraquat#"Paraquat pot"|poisoning the crops]]. But you can drive yourself crazy trying to figure it out."<ref name="Gdn20201121">{{cite news| last=Freeman| first=Hadley| date=November 21, 2020| title=Michael J Fox: 'Every step now is a frigging math problem, so I take it slow'| newspaper=[[The Guardian]]| url=https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2020/nov/21/michael-j-fox-every-step-now-is-a-frigging-math-problem-so-i-take-it-slow| access-date=November 21, 2020| issn=0261-3077| archive-date=November 24, 2020| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201124092040/https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2020/nov/21/michael-j-fox-every-step-now-is-a-frigging-math-problem-so-i-take-it-slow| url-status=live}}</ref>

[[File:0522 ma big (cropped1).jpg|thumb|left|Fox and [[Muhammad Ali]] in 2002 testifying before a U.S. Senate committee on providing government funding to combat Parkinson's]]
After his diagnosis, Fox began [[Alcohol abuse|drinking heavily]] and grew [[Major depressive disorder|depressed]].<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://people.com/celebrity/michael-j-fox-stunned-by-robin-williamss-parkinsons-diagnosis/ |title=Michael J. Fox 'Stunned' by Robin Williams's Parkinson's Diagnosis |first=Melody |last=Chiu |date=August 14, 2014 |magazine=People |access-date=August 20, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190820215753/https://people.com/celebrity/michael-j-fox-stunned-by-robin-williamss-parkinsons-diagnosis/ |archive-date=August 20, 2019 |url-status=live}}</ref> In 1992, he eventually sought help and stopped drinking altogether.<ref name="guardian">{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2009/apr/11/michael-j-fox-parkinsons |title=It's the gift that keeps on taking |newspaper=The Guardian |date=April 11, 2009 |access-date=June 29, 2009 |location=London |first=Emma |last=Brockes |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131008000425/http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2009/apr/11/michael-j-fox-parkinsons |archive-date=October 8, 2013 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://people.com/tv/michael-j-fox-stopped-drinking/|title=Michael J. Fox Reveals the Moment He Realized He Had to Stop Drinking|magazine=People|last=Cagle|first=Jess|date=August 15, 2018|access-date=January 23, 2023|archive-date=January 22, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230122093209/https://people.com/tv/michael-j-fox-stopped-drinking/|url-status=live}}</ref> Fox went public with his Parkinson's disease in 1998 and has become a strong advocate for Parkinson's disease research.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/movies/2023/01/22/michael-j-fox-parkinsons-still-documentary/11101412002/|title=Michael J. Fox says he became an alcoholic, hid Parkinson's diagnosis: 'There's no way out'|newspaper=USA Today|last=Ryan|first=Patrick|date=January 22, 2023|access-date=January 23, 2023|archive-date=January 22, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230122230736/https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/movies/2023/01/22/michael-j-fox-parkinsons-still-documentary/11101412002/|url-status=live}}</ref> His foundation, [[The Michael J. Fox Foundation]], was created to help advance every promising research path to curing Parkinson's disease.<ref name=AARPMag/><ref name=FoxFoundation/> Since 2010, he has led a $100-million effort, which is the Foundation's landmark observational study, to discover the biological markers of Parkinson's disease with the Parkinson's Progression Markers Initiative (PPMI).<ref name="ppmi">{{cite web| url=https://www.michaeljfox.org/ppmi-clinical-study| title=Key Initiatives: PPMI Clinical Study| website=The Michael J Fox Foundation| access-date=August 30, 2020| archive-date=August 14, 2020| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200814003846/https://www.michaeljfox.org/ppmi-clinical-study| url-status=live}}</ref>

Fox manages the symptoms of his Parkinson's disease with the drug [[carbidopa/levodopa]].<ref name="NPR Fresh Air">{{cite episode| url=https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1142526| series=[[Fresh Air]]| title=Actor Michael J. Fox| people=Terry Gross, interviewer| date=April 30, 2002| access-date=April 17, 2022| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181216031331/https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1142526| archive-date=December 16, 2018}}</ref> He had a [[thalamotomy]] in 1998.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://edition.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/01/06/parkinsons.deep.brain.stimulation/index.html |title=Brain implant better than meds for Parkinson's disease |work=[[CNN]] |date=January 6, 2009 |access-date=August 13, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120202200436/http://edition.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/01/06/parkinsons.deep.brain.stimulation/index.html |archive-date=February 2, 2012 |url-status=live}}</ref>

In ''Lucky Man'', Fox wrote that he did not take his medication prior to his testimony before the [[United States Senate Committee on Appropriations|Senate Appropriations Subcommittee]] in 1999 ([https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4400604/michael-j-fox-testimony-parkinson partial C-SPAN video clip]).<ref>{{cite news| url=http://edition.cnn.com/SHOWBIZ/Movies/9909/28/fox.parkinsons/| title=Michael J. Fox pitches for Parkinson's research| date=September 28, 1999| website=CNN| access-date=January 21, 2013| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140203011936/http://edition.cnn.com/SHOWBIZ/Movies/9909/28/fox.parkinsons/| archive-date=February 3, 2014| url-status=dead}}</ref>
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|quote = I had made a deliberate choice to appear before the subcommittee without medication. It seemed to me that this occasion demanded that my testimony about the effects of the disease, and the urgency we as a community were feeling, be seen as well as heard. For people who had never observed me in this kind of shape, the transformation must have been startling.<ref name=FoxFoundation/> 
}}In an interview with [[NPR]] in April 2002,<ref name="NPR Fresh Air"/> Fox explained what he does when he becomes symptomatic:

{{Blockquote|quote = Well, actually, I've been erring on the side of caution—I think 'erring' is actually the right word—in that I've been medicating perhaps too much, in the sense [that] ... the symptoms ... people see in some of these interviews that [I] have been on are actually [[dyskinesia]], which is a reaction to the medication. Because if I were purely symptomatic with Parkinson's symptoms, a lot of times speaking is difficult. There's a kind of a [[cluttering]] of speech and it's very difficult to sit still, to sit in one place. You know, the symptoms are different, so I'd rather kind of suffer the symptoms of dyskinesia ... this kind of weaving and this kind of continuous thing is much preferable, actually, than pure Parkinson's symptoms. So that's what I generally do ... I haven't had any, you know, problems with pure Parkinson's symptoms in any of these interviews, because I'll tend to just make sure that I have enough [[Sinemet]] in my system and, in some cases, too much. But to me, it's preferable. It's not representative of what I'm like in my everyday life. I get a lot of people with Parkinson's coming up to me saying, 'You take too much medication.' I say, 'Well, you sit across from [[Larry King]] and see if you want to tempt it.'
|source = Interview, April 30, 2002, ''[[Fresh Air]]'', [[NPR]]
}}