Mobile UPI  |   About UPI  |   UPI en Español  |   UPI Arabic  |   UPIU  |   My Account
Search:
Go

TV

Michael J. Fox headed back to 'Good Wife'

|
|
 
  
Michael J. Fox arrives for the Michael F. Fox Foundation's "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Cure Parkinson's" Benefit at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York on November 13, 2010. UPI /Laura Cavanaugh 
License photo
Published: Nov. 23, 2010 at 5:33 PM

NEW YORK, Nov. 23 (UPI) -- Five-time Emmy Award-winner Michael J. Fox is to reprise his guest-starring role on an upcoming episode of the U.S. legal drama "The Good Wife," CBS said.

Best known for his work on TV's "Family Ties" and "Spin City," as well as in the "Back to the Future" film trilogy, Fox is semi-retired from acting because he suffers from Parkinson's disease.

CBS said he will return to "The Good Wife" to play Louis Canning -- a shrewd, cynical litigator with a neurological condition, who last faced Julianna Margulies' character Alicia when he represented a large pharmaceutical firm.

"As soon as we saw the dailies of Michael playing Louis Canning, we started pleading with him to return. Luckily, he agreed," executive producers and show creators Robert and Michelle King said in a statement Tuesday. "He's amazing in this role: unpretentiously brave and funny. It's good to have him back."

The episode is set to air in early 2011.

Topics: Michael J. Fox
© 2010 United Press International, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Any reproduction, republication, redistribution and/or modification of any UPI content is expressly prohibited without UPI's prior written consent.

Order reprints
  
Join the conversation
Most Popular Collections
Protesters, police clash at NATO summit Notable deaths of 2012 2012 Billboard Music Awards
The 137th Preakness Stakes Annual Solar eclipse occurs in U.S. Chen Guangcheng arrives in the U.S.
Additional TV Stories
1 of 29
Members of the Army's Old Guard place flags at Arlington National Ceremtery
View Caption
U.S. flags are seen in the rucksack of a soldier with the Army's 3d U.S. Infantry Regiment, The Old Guard, as he places flags at gravesites in Arlington National Cemetery as part of the Flags-In Memorial Day ceremony on May 24, 2012 in Arlington, Virginia. American flags were placed at each of the more than 220,000 grave markers in honor of those who served and Memorial Day. UPI/Kevin Dietshc
fark
Daily Show writer partners with Slate to crowdsource ideas for amending and rewriting the Constitution....
Canada's national archives is being dismantled and scattered, who needs to remember the history...
Man disappears in Niagara Falls whirlpool; presumed to be spinning in his grave
Woman swallows toothbrush while brushing her teeth. Surgeons remove it before Oral B becomes Anal...
MSNBC Host Chris Hayes: I'm 'Uncomfortable' calling fallen military 'Heroes'
What do you REALLY know about the Queen?