{"id":3059,"date":"2026-06-06T19:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T19:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/2026\/06\/06\/michael-j-foxs-family-ties-emmy-win-changed-the-record-books\/"},"modified":"2026-06-06T19:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T19:00:00","slug":"michael-j-foxs-family-ties-emmy-win-changed-the-record-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/2026\/06\/06\/michael-j-foxs-family-ties-emmy-win-changed-the-record-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael J. Fox\u2019s \u2018Family Ties\u2019 Emmy Win Changed the Record Books"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p> \t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/michael-j-fox\/\" id=\"auto-tag_michael-j-fox_1\" data-tag=\"michael-j-fox\">Michael J. Fox<\/a> made Emmy history 40 years ago and set a benchmark that has yet to be broken. In 1986, Fox was a second-time nominee for playing Alex P. Keaton, the conservative-leaning eldest child of former hippie parents on NBC\u2019s sitcom <em>Family Ties<\/em> \u2014 and a burgeoning movie star on the heels of 1985\u2019s <em>Back to the Future<\/em> and <em>Teen Wolf<\/em>. At 25, he won the award for best lead actor in a comedy series, beating out such veterans as Harry Anderson, Ted Danson and Bob Newhart, and became the youngest actor ever to win the prize. (The second youngest winner, <em>The Bear<\/em>\u2018s Jeremy Allen White, was 32 when he won his first Emmy in the category in 2023.)  \t<\/p>\n<p> \tThe episode for which Fox won his award, \u201cThe Real Thing,\u201d was notable for another reason: It featured Tracy Pollan\u2019s first appearance on the series. She and Fox played a couple and later married in real life.  <\/p>\n<p> \tThe win was the first of three consecutive Emmys for Fox and his work on <em>Family Ties<\/em>. He would go on to win two more Emmys \u2014 comedy lead actor in 2000 for <em>Spin City<\/em> and a guest acting honor in 2009 for <em>Rescue Me<\/em> \u2014 among 18 career nominations. And he could be in the running for another guest acting Emmy for Apple TV\u2019s <em>Shrinking<\/em>. A fierce advocate for research into Parkinson\u2019s disease, which has affected him since he was 29, Fox played Gerry, a Parkinson\u2019s patient who befriends Harrison Ford\u2019s Dr. Paul Rhoades, also diagnosed with Parkinson\u2019s, in the show\u2019s most recent season.<\/p>\n<p> \t<em>This story first appeared in a June stand-alone issue of The Hollywood Reporter magazine. To receive the magazine, <a href=\"https:\/\/subscribe.hollywoodreporter.com\/sub\/?p=THR&#038;f=saleb&#038;s=IH1402HR20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">click here to subscribe<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<h2 id=\"section-heading\">  \t \t\tTHR Newsletters \t \t<\/h2>\n<p>Sign up for THR news straight to your inbox every day<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cloud.email.hollywoodreporter.com\/signup\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel>  \t<span> \t\tSubscribe\t<\/span>  \t\t\t<span>Sign Up<\/span> \t \t<\/a> \t<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael J. Fox made Emmy history 40 years ago and set a benchmark that has yet to be broken. In 1986, Fox was a second-time nominee for playing Alex P. Keaton, the conservative-leaning eldest child of former hippie parents on NBC\u2019s sitcom Family Ties \u2014 and a burgeoning movie star on the heels of 1985\u2019s Back to the Future and Teen Wolf. At 25, he won the award for best lead actor in a comedy series, beating out such veterans as Harry Anderson, Ted Danson and Bob Newhart, and became the youngest actor ever to win the prize. (The second youngest winner, The Bear\u2018s Jeremy Allen White, was 32 when [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3060,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[190,1589,2,863,1816,85,335],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-awards","category-emmy-awards","category-hollywood","category-hollywood-flashback","category-michael-j-fox","category-tv","category-tv-features"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3059\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}