Here's information about their wedding, honeymoon, children, and quotes about their successful marriage.
Tracy Jo Pollan: June 22, 1960 in Long Island, New York, New York.
How Tracy and Michael Met:
Tracy and Michael met while working together on Family Ties during the 1985-1986 season. Due to being in relationships with other people, they didn't date one another.Two years later, in 1987, they were working together again on the movie Bright Lights, Big City, and started dating.
They were engaged during Christmas 1987.
Michael about meeting Tracy again: "The next spring I was casting a movie in New York, and I saw Tracy, who had come in to read for a part. I said, "How's so-and-so?" She said, "We're not together anymore." I was like, "(a) You have the job and (b) let's have lunch." By the time the movie was finished, we were on vacation together -- and less than a year later we were married."
Source: O, The Oprah Magazine. March 2002. pg. 142.
Wedding Date:
July 16, 1988 at the West Mountain Inn under a tent on a wooded hillside in Arlington, Vermont. Tracy and Michael wanted and had a small wedding with around 70 guests including immediate family and close friends.Michael about their wedding: "... it was a great wedding, a tremendous success ... we paid for our privacy in the coin of bad press ... It was a price well worth paying because it enabled us in a single moment not only to join together in the ritual of marriage, but to draw a line and create a space apart for ourselves. A place of our very own that, unbeknownst to us then, would help us to weather a much more serious storm ahead."
Source: Lucky Me: A Memoir by Michael J. Fox, page 129.
- Sam Michael Fox: Born in 1989.
- Aquinnah Kathleen Fox: Born in 1995.
- Schuyler Frances Fox: Born in 1995.
- Esmé Annabelle Fox: Born in 2001 in Manhattan, New York.
Michael was diagnosed with Parkinson's in 1991 when he was 29 years old. At age 37, on November 25, 1998, Michael shared publicly about his diagnosis. Michael stopped acting full-time in 2000.
Tracy: Actress, producer.
Source: O, The Oprah Magazine. March 2002. pg. 142.
Michael about falling in love with Tracy: "When Tracy did the show. I was involved with someone and she was living with someone. We worked together really well but didn't socialize or have deep, heart-to-heart talks. I really don't think either of us looked at each other romantically ... But then, when I was doing Bright Lights, Big City, Tracy came in to audition and she was single and I was single, and ba-boom! It happened pretty quickly. We were engaged by that Christmas, weren't we?"
Source: Redbook. September 1996. pg. 106.
Tracy about their parents' marriages: "Michael and I had great role models. Though his father has passed away, his parents had an amazingly strong marriage, as do mine. Both weathered really tough times. For us it has been normal to stay together through difficulties. We grew up witnessing that firsthand."
Source: O, The Oprah Magazine. March 2002. pg. 142.
Michael about Tracy and his children: "The best thing that ever happened to me was getting married. Tracy and our children put everything in perspective."
Source: Redbook. November 1999. pg. 69.
Michael about Tracy: "I feel really lucky and smart. I look at Tracy sometimes and I have two feelings. One is that she becomes more beautiful every second; and more important, I look at her and say to myself, Damn, you're smart. Boy, did you make the right choice."
Source: O, The Oprah Magazine. March 2002. pg. 142.
