| Name | | Jack Nicholson | |
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| General info : | | John Joseph "Jack" Nicholson (born April 22, 1937, Neptune City, New Jersey, United States) is an American actor, film director, producer, and writer.
Throughout his career, Nicholson has portrayed unique and challenging roles, many of which include dark portrayals of excitable, neurotic and psychopathic characters.
Nicholson's 12 Academy Award nominations make him the most nominated male actor in the Academy's history.
Nicholson has won the Academy Award for Best Actor twice, one for One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and the other for As Good as It Gets.
He also won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for Terms of Endearment. Nicholson is tied with Walter Brennan and Daniel Day-Lewis as one of three male actors to win three Academy Awards.
He is well known for playing Frank Costello in The Departed, Jack Torrance in The Shining and the Joker in 1989's Batman.
He has won six Golden Globe Awards, and received the Kennedy Center Honor in 2001.
In 1994, he became one of the youngest actors to be awarded the American Film Institute's Life Achievement Award.
Notable films in which he has starred include Easy Rider, Five Easy Pieces, The Last Detail, Chinatown, The Passenger, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, The Shining, Reds, Wolf, A Few Good Men, The Pledge, About Schmidt, and The Departed.
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| General info : | John Joseph "Jack" Nicholson (born April 22, 1937, Neptune City, New Jersey, United States) is an American actor, film director, producer, and writer.
Throughout his career, Nicholson has portrayed unique and challenging roles, many of which include dark portrayals of excitable, neurotic and psychopathic characters.
Nicholson's 12 Academy Award nominations make him the most nominated male actor in the Academy's history.
Nicholson has won the Academy Award for Best Actor twice, one for One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and the other for As Good as It Gets.
He also won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for Terms of Endearment. Nicholson is tied with Walter Brennan and Daniel Day-Lewis as one of three male actors to win three Academy Awards.
He is well known for playing Frank Costello in The Departed, Jack Torrance in The Shining and the Joker in 1989's Batman.
He has won six Golden Globe Awards, and received the Kennedy Center Honor in 2001.
In 1994, he became one of the youngest actors to be awarded the American Film Institute's Life Achievement Award.
Notable films in which he has starred include Easy Rider, Five Easy Pieces, The Last Detail, Chinatown, The Passenger, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, The Shining, Reds, Wolf, A Few Good Men, The Pledge, About Schmidt, and The Departed.
(From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia) | John Joseph "Jack" Nicholson (born April 22, 1937, Neptune City, New Jersey, United States) is an American actor, film director, producer, and writer.
He is known for playing a wide range of starring or supporting roles, including satirical comedy, romance, and dark portrayals of anti-heroes and psychopathic characters. In many of his films, he has played the "eternal outsider, the sardonic drifter", someone who rebels against the social structure.
His most known and celebrated films include the road drama Easy Rider (1969); the dramas Five Easy Pieces (1970) and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975); the comedy-dramas The Last Detail (1973), Terms of Endearment (1983), As Good as It Gets (1997), About Schmidt (2002), and The Bucket List (2007); the neo-noir mystery Chinatown (1974); the horror film The Shining (1980); the biopic Reds (1981); the fantasy comedy The Witches of Eastwick (1987); the superhero film Batman (1989) as the Joker; the legal drama A Few Good Men (1992); the romantic horror film Wolf (1994); the science fiction comedy Mars Attacks! (1996); the comedy Anger Management (2003); the romantic comedy Something's Gotta Give (2003); and the crime drama The Departed (2006). Nicholson has not acted in a film since How Do You Know in 2010, but does not consider himself to be retired. He has also directed three films, including The Two Jakes (1990), the sequel to Chinatown.
Nicholson's 12 Academy Award nominations make him the most nominated male actor in the Academy's history. Nicholson has won the Academy Award for Best Actor twice - one for the drama One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975), and the other for the romantic comedy As Good as It Gets (1997). He also won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for the comedy-drama Terms of Endearment (1983). Nicholson is one of three male actors to win three Academy Awards. Nicholson is one of only two actors to be nominated for an Academy Award for acting in every decade from the 1960s to the 2000s; the other is Michael Caine. He has won six Golden Globe Awards, and received the Kennedy Center Honor in 2001. In 1994, at 57, he became one of the youngest actors to be awarded the American Film Institute's Life Achievement Award.
He has had a number of high-profile relationships, most notably with Anjelica Huston and Rebecca Broussard, and was married to Sandra Knight from 1962 until their divorce in 1968. Nicholson has five children – one with Knight, two with Broussard (including Lorraine Nicholson), and one each with Susan Anspach and Winnie Hollman. | |
| Relations : | | Partner (not married) : Lara Flynn Boyle1999 - 2001 | |
| Relations : | | Father of : Lorraine Nicholson | |
| Relations : | | Partner (not married) : Rebecca Broussard1989 - 1994 | |
| Relations : | | Married to : Sandra Knightm. 1962 - div. 1968 | |
| Relations : | | Partner (not married) : Anjelica Huston1973 - 1990 | |
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| Video | | Cinéma CInémas - Conférence de presse Jack Nicholson - 1984 | |
| Video | | Jack Nicholson and Bob Rafelson on Five Easy Pieces’ Diner Scene | |
| Video | | Jack Nicholson interview - 1982 | |
| Video | | Jack Nicholson on ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST | |
| Video | | Jack Nicholson winning an Oscar® for "As Good as it Gets" | |