Michael J. Fox Poses With Tracy Pollan at US Open After Arriving in Wheelchair

Michael J. Fox made an inspiring appearance at the 2025 US Open amid his battle with Parkinson’s disease.

Fox, 64, arrived in a wheelchair on day 15 of the tennis championship at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in New York on Sunday, September 7. However, he stood up to take photos with wife Tracy Pollan on the blue carpet, as seen in a video shared by NYC influencer Mickey Blank on Instagram.

The Back to the Future star wore blue slacks and a matching blazer over a white collared shirt, completing the look with a pair of dark sunglasses and gray sneakers. Meanwhile, Pollan, 65, who married Fox in 1988, wore a light pink floral maxidress, beige heels and a matching purse.

After taking the photos, Fox returned to his wheelchair and waved to photographers as he entered the event.

Fox was diagnosed with Parkinson’s at 29 years old in 1991 after he began displaying symptoms while filming Doc Hollywood. However, he didn’t go public with his diagnosis until 1998. He later established The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research in 2000 to help advance research into curing the disease.

Fox reflected on living with Parkinson’s for more than 30 years at his A Country Thing Happened on the Way to Cure Parkinson’s musical charity gala in April 2024.

“After 35 years or something since I’ve been diagnosed, this is just my life and I don’t think about it much,” he told Entertainment Tonight. “I don’t even think about [it]. Except that I’m thinking about what we’re going to do as a community to figure this out and find a cure – and short of a cure, [create] treatment centers that are really groundbreaking.”

Fox continued, “Me personally, it’s just who I am, and the way I was built. And I’m necessarily trying to figure it out for me, I’m figuring it out for everybody. But it just is what it is. My life has been a great ride and it continues to be a great ride. And through all the challenges, it comes with all the good stuff.”

Fox retired from full-time acting in 2020 due to his disease, telling AARP Magazine the following year, “I continued to act for almost 30 years after I was diagnosed. I reached the point where I couldn’t rely on my ability to speak on any given day, which meant I couldn’t act comfortably at all anymore. So, last year I gave it up.”

Now, Fox is set to make his first appearance in a TV series since his retirement in Shrinking season 3, which is expected to arrive on AppleTV+ in late 2025 or early 2026. His battle with Parkinson’s inspired Harrison Ford’s character Dr. Paul Rhoades’ journey with the illness, series cocreator Bill Lawrence revealed.

“It’s cool to get to write about things you care about now,” Lawrence, 55, told People in December 2024. “And Michael J. Fox is my first mentor. So we wanted to represent it in hopefully an inspiring and not sad or tragic way.”