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Michael J. Fox Is Coming Out of Retirement

The ‘Back to the Future’ star stepped away from acting in 2020.

Michael J. Fox will soon return to our screens. The Back to the Future star, who retired from acting in 2020, will next appear in a guest starring role on Season 3 of the AppleTV+ series Shrinking. Fox, 63, stepped away from the profession five years ago after a brief stint on The Good Fight. He later told Empire that his decision to retire was “peaceful,” and came about after he realized he could no longer remember his lines while filming the Paramount+ legal drama. However, Fox said last year that he was open to accepting a new role “if something came up that I could really put my realities [and] my challenges into.” The Family Ties star has lived with Parkinson’s disease since being diagnosed at age 29. He most recently appeared on screen in the 2023 documentary Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie, which chronicled his experience navigating the neurodegenerative condition. Shrinking, which co-stars Harrison Ford as a therapist living with worsening Parkinson’s, will mark Fox’s second collaboration with series co-creator Bill Lawrence after the ABC sitcom Spin City. The new season is already in production, with Jeff Daniels also set to guest star. No word yet on when it will hit AppleTV+.