Michael J. Fox is returning to television soon, where he will guest star on an episode during the upcoming season of the CBS drama “The Good Wife,” according to reports on Friday.
Fox is slated to appear as a cynical and crafty litigator Simon Canning, who the series protagonist Alica, played by Julianna Marguiles, faces in a class action lawsuit.
CBS said, “Canning is willing to use anything in court, including symptoms of his neurological condition, to create sympathy for his otherwise unsympathetic client: a giant pharmaceutical company.”
Fox, who had a highly-successful run in television with the 1980s sitcom “Family Ties” and later with “Spin City,” has won five Emmy Awards. He also starred in the highly-successful “Back to the Future” trilogy.
Fox took time away from television shortly after he publicly announced in 1998 that he had Parkinson’s disease, which he was diagnosed with in 1991.
He started his foundation, the Michael J. Fox Foundation which is “dedicated to finding a cure for Parkinson’s disease through an aggressively funded research agenda,” according to a statement on the foundation’s website.
Fox is slated to appear as a cynical and crafty litigator Simon Canning, who the series protagonist Alica, played by Julianna Marguiles, faces in a class action lawsuit.
CBS said, “Canning is willing to use anything in court, including symptoms of his neurological condition, to create sympathy for his otherwise unsympathetic client: a giant pharmaceutical company.”
Fox, who had a highly-successful run in television with the 1980s sitcom “Family Ties” and later with “Spin City,” has won five Emmy Awards. He also starred in the highly-successful “Back to the Future” trilogy.
Fox took time away from television shortly after he publicly announced in 1998 that he had Parkinson’s disease, which he was diagnosed with in 1991.
He started his foundation, the Michael J. Fox Foundation which is “dedicated to finding a cure for Parkinson’s disease through an aggressively funded research agenda,” according to a statement on the foundation’s website.
