Michael J. Fox and his wife, Tracy Pollan, enjoyed a date night at Game 4 of the 2026 NBA Finals.
Fox and Pollan, both 65, were spotted sitting courtside at New York City’s Madison Square Garden on Wednesday, June 10, where the New York Knicks narrowly beat the San Antonio Spurs 107-106 in the championship series. (The Knicks lead the Spurs 3-1 in the series ahead of the Saturday, June 13, matchup.)
Fox has been cheering on the Knicks throughout their playoff run, previously attending two games last month against the Cleveland Cavaliers.
The Back to the Future actor has been married to Pollan since 1988, the same year that he was diagnosed with young-onset Parkinson’s disease at the age of 29. Fox publicly confirmed his diagnosis seven years later.
“My life is set up so I can pack Parkinson’s along with me if I have to,” Fox said on CBS Sunday Mornings in 2023. “Yeah, it’s banging on the door. Yeah, I mean, I’m not gonna lie. It’s gettin’ hard, it’s gettin’ harder. It’s gettin’ tougher. Every day it’s tougher. But that’s the way it is. You don’t die from Parkinson’s. You die with Parkinson’s.”
He continued at the time, “I’ve been thinking about the mortality of it. … I’m not gonna be 80. I’m not gonna be 80.”
Fox, who launched an eponymous nonprofit supporting Parkinson’s research amid his health battle, ultimately retired from acting in 2020.
“When I left school and moved from Canada to L.A. to start making it as an actor, a teacher of mine told me, ‘Fox, you’re not going to be cute forever,’” Fox said during the 2026 Actor Awards in March, closing out the “I Am an Actor” monologue. “I said, ‘Maybe just long enough, sir.’ After a few years of dumpster diving in L.A., I ended up on Family Ties, where I received the biggest gift of my career: I met my wife, actor Tracy Pollan, who played Ellen, my girlfriend.”
Fox further gushed that Pollan gave him the gift of their four children: Sam, 37, twins Aquinnah and Schuyler, 31, and Esmé, 24.
“Sometimes I like to remind them, ‘If I weren’t an actor, they wouldn’t be here.’ By the way, he’s not an actor — he’s my date,” Fox added at the time, pointing to Sam, who attended the awards ceremony. “I’m Michael J. Fox. I’m a dad and I’m an actor.”
The Teen Wolf actor has also begun thinking about and questioning his eventual mortality amid his Parkinson’s battle.
“There’s no timeline, there’s no series of stages that you go through — not in the same way that you would, say, with prostate cancer,” Fox told The Times of London last year. “It’s much more mysterious and enigmatic. There are not many people who have had Parkinson’s for 35 years. I’d like to just not wake up one day. That’d be really cool. I don’t want it to be dramatic. I don’t want to trip over furniture, smash my head.”
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