Michael Caine Wife, Daughter, Age, Net Worth, Height, Biography

Michael Caine is an Academy Award-winning British actor known for his distinctive talents which are showcased in his films. He has performed in every decade from the 1960s to the present day and bears a special hallmark which is his cockney accent. Learn more about the bio, family and net worth of this British screen legend in this article.

Biography (Age)

Michael Caine was born at St Olave’s Hospital in London on March 14, 1933, to parents Ellen Frances Marie (Burchell) and Maurice Joseph Micklewhite, businessmen. His birth name was Maurice Joseph Micklewhite Jr. and he was brought up in Southwark in a Protestant manner, although his father was a Catholic. Besides his brother Stanley Micklewhite, he has a half-brother, David William Burchell, whom his mother had had before her marriage to his father Maurice. Michael was educated at Wilson High School and left at age 16 to do pre-Korean War work. He even participated in it and even had a near-death experience. After the war, at 20, he got a job as an assistant stage manager in a theater and at 21, he took another job with the Lowestoft Repertory company. It was in 1954 that he was inspired by theCaine Mutiny movie to change his name to Michael Caine.

The first notable achievement of his career was when he was brought in to play his cockney accent in his role as a British officer in the film. Zulu, in 1964 and then The Ipcress File, in which he starred as Agent Harry Palmer in 1965. In the years that followed, he starred in other films like Alfie, the Italian Job, Dirty Rotten and has over 115 other film appearances in his acting career.

He was nominated for his first Academy Award after playing the 1966 film Alfie and then another Academy Award nomination for Detective. In 1983, he achieved good records after his role in Educating Rita and received the BAFTA for Best Actor in a Leading Role alongside the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor. He received an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in Hannah and Her Sister and his role in Little Voice .won him a Golden Globe Award. In 2000, Caine received a BAFTA scholarship and was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II for his contributions to film. He is also known for being one of two actors, the other being Jack Nicholson, who was nominated for an Academy Award in every decade of his career, having received 6 nominations between the 1960s and 2000s.

Michael Caine net worth

This stellar actor is among the top 15 earning actors who, as of early 2017, are said to have starred in over 150 movies that have grossed around $3.8 billion at the box office worldwide. His current net worth is estimated at $75 million.

woman and girl

Returning to the Lowestoft repertoire, the actor met his first wife, Patricia Haines, and soon after, in 1955, they were married. The couple moved to London in search of a better chance of success in their acting career. However, things did not go as planned when they moved. So Michael had to take jobs to make ends meet. Patricia became pregnant in the middle of these and gave birth to a girl named Dominique. Her birth brought more financial difficulties to the marriage, and in 1962 the marriage ended.

In 1971, Michael spotted Shakira Baksh while watching TV and was able to get in touch with her through the help of a friend. Ten days after the telephone contact, she agreed to go out with him and soon moved in with Caine in England. The lovebirds married in January 1973 in Las Vegas and in July of the same year they had a baby girl they named Natasha. Shakira Baksh was born on February 23, 1947 in British Guiana. She is currently 71 years old. As a young girl, she aspired to be a fashion designer just like her mother, but she turned out to be a model and an actress. She finished third in the 1967 Miss World Pageant and was in the film The Man Who Would Be Kingwith her husband in 1975. Although she is Muslim and Caine, Christian, Caine however claims that their different religions do not cause any pressure on their relationship.

The couple’s daughter Natasha who is currently 45 has been married twice with both marriages broken up. Her first marriage was with businessman Tim Scott in 2000, it ended the same year and the second with a real estate developer in 2007 with whom she had 2 children: a son and a daughter, but the divorce also ended.

Michael Caine’s Height

The ever-talented veteran actor has a gallant height of 6ft 2 inches which carries his current weight of around 86kg. For a man of his age, he is doing well and you could tell he was a very handsome young man when he was in his prime.