Michael J Fox pays tribute to his longtime love and wife Tracy Pollan on her 64th birthday.
The retired actor, 63, showed off his romantic side when he took to his Instagram page on Saturday, June 22, to share his loving and poetic message.
“By all accounts it’s a beautiful day for Tracy,” the former Family Ties star captioned his post.
‘I love you and today will be wonderful. Always forever your Mike with so much love. Congratulations. It’s going to be an epic day.’
For the cover photo, Fox shared a black and white photo of his wife of 35 years, looking all glamorous.
Michael J. Fox pays tribute to his longtime love and wife Tracy Pollan on her 64th birthday
The second image was a sweet photo of the couple posing with their arms around each other during a recent beach trip.
The couple first met in 1985 when Pollan was cast as Ellen, the love interest of Fox’s character Alex P. Keaton, on the hit NBC sitcom Family Ties.
However, they didn’t start dating until two years later in 1987. when they reunited for the film adaptation of Jay McInerney’s novel Bright Lights, Big City.
They eventually married in July 1988 at the West Mountain Inn in Arlington, Vermont, after less than two years together.
The couple have four children: son Sam, 35, twin daughters Aquinnah and Schuyler, 29, and youngest daughter Esmé, 22.
Although the couple has shared their lives for more than 35 years, Pollan previously admitted that she didn’t have a great first impression of Fox.
“I guess I thought he was a little full of himself,” Pollan recalled during an appearance on Inside The Actors Studio, as reported by Procession.
But after she got to know him a little better, sparks flew.
The activist and retired actor showed his romantic side when he took to his Instagram page on Saturday, June 22, to share his loving and poetic message.
The couple first met in 1985 when Pollan was cast as Ellen, the love interest of Fox’s character Alex P. Keaton, on the hit NBC sitcom Family Ties
“We started working together, and I got a completely different impression and how completely the opposite of that it was: just funny and so smart, and all these other things came within the first two weeks of working together,” she explained.
Life changed dramatically for the couple when Fox (born Michael Andrew Fox) was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease in 1991.
He did not publicly announce his diagnosis until 1998.
“One of the things I will always love about Tracy is that she didn’t blink in that moment,” Fox recalls. ‘She is on the front lines with me every day. She never pretends to know as much as I do.
“And the other thing Tracy does is, if there’s something funny, let’s go to the funny. We’ll deal with the tragedy later.’
Pollan has supported Fox every step of the way, leading to the creation of his Michael J. Fox Foundation in 2000 to help fund research into Parkinson’s disease in the effort to find a cure.
More recently, the couple helped create and release the Apple TV+ film Still: A Michael J. Fox Story (2023), which won Best Documentary Film at the National Board Of Review Gala and earned seven dollars. nominations at the 75th Primetime Emmy Awards.
She also supported him at the Michael J. Fox Foundation’s A Country Thing Happened On The Way To Cure Parkinson’s events over the years.
The couple has been married since 1988 and has four children; seen in April 2024
Fox and Pollan, who have one of the most enduring romances in Hollywood, are often asked how they keep their marriage strong through the years and decades.
“It’s interesting to be married 35 years,” Fox said. ‘Yes. I mean, the joke is that you say I’ve been married for 35 years, and I have [been] the best 35 years of my life, so think about that for a moment.”
He added: ‘It’s great to have a partner and have someone who knows you [certain] the way everyone in the world thinks they know you. [Only] one person really knows you.”