“I knew that if I wanted to be someone, I couldn’t just sit on my parents’ porch and think, ‘Boy, if I was only born in the States and my parents had money,'” he said.
Two years later, Fox landed his career-defining role on “Family Ties.” He quickly became the NBC sitcom’s breakout star, which is how he gotBut in 1991, at 29 years old, he was diagnosed with early onset Parkinson’s and given 10 more years to work.
“It’s such a s–tty disease,” he lamented. “I didn’t want to think about it. I didn’t want to deal with it. It didn’t fit my story. I just shut down.” Fox landed his career-defining role on “Family Ties” and also starred in the “Back to the Future” film franchise.
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