Marty Makflai Biography

St. Petersburg 2nd Krasnoarmeyskaya St. He is known to the whole world as Marty McFlai from the Oscar -winning fantastic comedy “Back to the Future”, the winner of the Saturn, Golden Globe, Emmy, the owner of two personal stars - on the Alales of Glory in Hollywood and Canada. In the photo: Michael Jay Fox, according to the Times of the Times, he is included in the list of "people whose power, talent and moral example have changed the world." Director and producer, in recent years he writes books.

Childhood, youth, family Michael Andrew Fox The real name of the actor was born in the summer of the year and became the fourth child in the family of Bill Fox and Fillis Piper. Mom was an actress, but when, after Michael, two more children were born in the family, in search of a more stable earnings it became an office clerk. The father was a military personnel: from Edmonton, where the boy was born, Bill was sent several times to other cities of Canada in the service.

The whole family moved with him. Children changed several schools until the father retired in the year. Michael began to study at school with the future rock star Brian Adams. Like all Canadian boys, Fox stood on skates in early childhood and passionately dreamed of becoming a famous hockey player. But the matter did not go further than school competitions-the path to great sport was closed to him due to small stature and not athletic physique itself.

But the teacher of the acting studio invited Michael to try his hand at the artistic field. A funny guy with mobile facial expressions quickly came to taste. With the help of the teacher, Fox soon began to attend castings and act in episodes of various series.

Michael Jay Fox in his youth at the end of X, he played the episodic role of the schoolboy in the “family”, appeared in the series “Magic Lies” and “A Board of Love”. At the age of 15, Fox got his first large role-Jamie in the comedy of Don S. The producer of the film recommended the guy to move to Los Angeles and seriously engage in acting career, which Fox did.

Since his namesake was already among the actors, the young man was borrowed by the threefold name of his idol, actor Michael Jay Pollard, and has since been mentioned in the credits as Michael Jay Fox. A novice actor dreamed of a big role, but the start of his film was not as successful as he hoped. To look "more salty" with low growth, Fox tried to gain weight, but it only turned out worse.

When he had already lost his dream in Hollywood, Michael was offered one of the main roles in the television series Family Takes - most of the jokes were built on the contradictions in the views of parents, former hippies and typical representatives of the X generation, and children, republicans and admirers of Reaganomics. Michael’s character was so fond of the audience that soon the focus from his parents moved to him, and he became the central character.

The frame from the series “Family Takes” recalling his euphoria much later after the filming, the actor said about himself: that guy was much closer to the Canadian little boy, who adored the rock star: Jimmy Hendrix, Jimmy Page-and he himself dreamed of becoming a rock star. But I was not a rock star. I was an idiot who never understood the main thing, I achieved everything, because I really knew something.

I believed that I won the lottery, and did not respect my own abilities. I rode on the limousine, leaning into the hatch on the roof, in each hand there was a beer of beer, and I was surprised: who would have thought that me - me! Success was really deafening. For playing the role of Alex Kiton, the actor received in different years three Emmy Awards and the Golden Globe Award.

And ahead of Michael Jay Fox awaited new roles, including the one that lifted him to the top of world glory. The producers of the television series categorically opposed Michael to star in another picture, and he did not want to leave the “bond”. But Stolz did not have the charm of Fox. Finally, the producers managed to finish the concessions: it was assumed that Michael would be busy on the set of “family ties” from ten in the morning to six in the evening, and then it could be shot in the Zemeckis film.

It was possible to sleep five hours and in the intervals between filming. But all the costs paid off the hundredfold: after the film released on the screens, Michael Jay Fox became a new American movie star. Their duet with Christopher Lloyd became so popular that the director immediately launched two new projects-preferences of fantastic history “Back to the Future” in the years.

The franchise “Back of the Future” itself had a huge impact on the mass culture, giving rise to fashion for films about time travel. Back to the future - a trailer on the set of the third picture, in which Fox, according to the plan, meets his ancestor in the Wild West, some scenes, especially the episode with Marty's hanging looked so believable that the audience did not even know: the actor almost suffocated, because the rope dragged on on the neck too tight.

Fox received for the role of the Golden Globe as the best actor. The further career after the success of the “back to the future” trilogy, offers with the main roles fell on the actor one after another.A frame from the film “Wolf’s Wolf” by the ambitious young man Brantley Foster, who dreams of conquering the world, the actor played in the film “The Secret of my success”, and in the drama “Bright Lights, the Big City” was piercing as the writer Jamie Convee.

On the set of the film "Military Losses" paired with James Woods, the actor played in the comedy action movie "Ahead! With the legend of American cinema, Kirk Douglas, he played in the comedy "greed", and with Dzhancarlo Esposito in the film "with a dull on his face." This role was the last of the main ones for the actor. The role again brought Honored Awards to Fox: the Emmy Award and three Golden Globes.

In the year, Michael's disease fenced his fans with terrible news - doctors diagnosed him with Parkinson's disease, a degenerative disease of the central nervous system. Moreover, the actor found out about this back in the year, when he was only 30, which is surprising, because Parkinson is characteristic of the elderly. Michael Jay Fox in the year, this disease is incurable, but with high -quality treatment it can be stopped.

And still, Michael, despite the young age and financial stability, failed to return to acting. At first, the syndrome manifested itself in the tremor and irreverion of the muscles, but then it began to forget everything that happened recently. Short -term memory suffered most strongly - if earlier the actor’s skate was memorizing remarks, now all the roles with a lot of words have disappeared.

Since the beginning of the two thousand years, he began to act periodically, appearing in series and television shows on the second plans. Fox founded a fund whose activities are aimed at finding Parkinson's disease and helping people with the same diagnosis. Fortunately, benign. But after the operation, he had to spend 4 months in a wheelchair, learning to walk again. And after rehabilitation, when it seemed to him that the most difficult thing behind, he fell in his apartment and broke his hand.

This episode, as Michael recalled, became the darkest in his life: I stood in the kitchen, leaning on the wall, waiting for an ambulance and thought how sorry I was. At that moment I did not know how to handle it. I thought: “I can’t bear it with dignity. There is nothing good in what happened to me, no bright side. All that is left to me is pain and regret. However, thanks to the support of his wife and the viewing of his favorite programs, Michael managed to return the optimistic mood from the x.

He admits that he can no longer dance, play the guitar or draw, but he found comfort in writing and communicating with his family. The personal life of Michael Jay Fox Hollywood star belongs to the type of man-loving men. Even during the filming of Family Uzes, he met actress Tracy Pollan - she played Ellen, a girlfriend of his character Alex. Michald Jay Fox and Tracy Pollan met in “family ties” in an interview with Tracy described the relations of their heroes as “old -fashioned, impeccable and optimistic as all ideal first love”.

Their own were also similar - however, at the time of their meeting, Pollan met with Kevin Beikon and even gathered for him, so they talked little outside the set of Michael. And then Michael got a role in “Back to the Future” and became, in his own words, “Prince of Hollywood”: I had a Mercedes, Ferrari and Range Rover, and I was really cool. It seemed that the actor had everything seriously with actress Nancy McCeon, then he was suspected of a novel with Courtney Cox, who joined the acting of “family ties”.

With Nancy McCeon, but on the set of the film “Bright Lights, the Big City”, Michael’s feelings to Tracy, who also received a role in the project, were ignited with renewed vigor, and in December, after 7 months of relations, the actor made his beloved proposal, and in years they played a wedding. He is very smart, ”Pollan later admitted. A frame from the film “Bright Lights, a Big City” on the way to marriage was waiting for another test: having learned about the engagement, Michael’s crazy fan began to send both letters with threats, sometimes 15 pieces a day.

The woman was found quickly: it turned out, she wrote from a psychiatric hospital, where she was waiting for the trial for threats to arrange a terrorist attack. They thought about new children, because both were born in a large family, but Michael's disease confused plans. He barely coped with a household routine, and the doctors scared that he had a very least normal life from his grief, Michael washed down, but then he realized that you couldn’t help with this business, and the next five years he agreed to play anywhere to earn money for a comfortable future for the family.

Tracy was near all this time. According to her, despite the difficulties, she never regretted that she had married Michael: Michael's diagnosis made me forget about his hypochondria. But he is so relaxed and so naturally accepted everything that happened to him, that life seemed to be easier for me, for children, and for everyone around me. In February, the couple had the twins Skyler and Aquinnes, and in November another daughter appeared in the family, who was called Esme.

The whole large family lives on Manhattan and supports the head of the family with all its might.Michael does not stop fighting his own ailment, despite the fact that he announced the complete end of the acting career in the fall of the year. According to the plot, Marty warns the young new Sant what he can do, what he wants, but should not get into a year. Michael Jay Fox in the LIL NAS X video, despite the actor’s statement about the completion of his career, the directors leave no attempt to attract him at least for the voice acting of cartoons.

So, Michel Mancovski in the year plans to launch the animated project “Beast. Heroes of Forest Fire ”, where Michael is assigned the role of Allen Voron. Whether the actor will accept the proposal is still unknown. DOK and Marty: 30 years later, Fox completed the fourth book of memoirs “Always look forward: discussions of optimist about mortality”. In it, the unbending Canadian tells about life during his diagnosis, that he gives him little joys, for example, a golf game or time spent with Kit Richards, or watching television series.

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