Michael J. Fox, 60, is renowned for his award-winning acting career as well as for being a pioneer in the study of Parkinson’s disease. He founded The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research in 2000, nine years after he received his Parkinson’s diagnosis at the age of 29, in addition to playing the title role in the enduring Back to the Future movies and the 1980s comedy Family Ties. Michael has been candid about his battles with the illness, and he even acknowledged that he might never act again in his biography No Time Like the Future: An Optimist Considers Mortality, due out in 2020.
Parkinson’s condition and Michael’s shifting career have not been his only struggles. He married Tracy Pollan, a 61-year-old former Family Ties co-star, in 1988, and she has remained at his side ever since his diagnosis, which happened three years into their union.
Are Michael J Fox And Tracy Pollan Still Married?
On the first season of Family Ties, Tracy and Michael became friends. Tracy was chosen to play Ellen Reed, Alex P. Keaton’s love interest, in the movie.
While Alex and Ellen’s relationship came to an end, Tracy and Michael’s relationship appeared to be just getting started. Since Tracy was already devoted to actor Kevin Bacon, their connection was exclusively professional at the time.
However, by the time they collaborated on the 1988 film Bright Lights, Big City, things started to get romantic. The couples are still married.
