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Jack Nicholson American actor and filmmaker John Joseph Nicholson is an American retired actor and filmmaker Nicholson is widely regarded as one of the greatest actors of the 20th century throughout his five decade career he received numerous accolades including three Academy Awards three baa film Awards six Golden Globe Awards and a Grammy award born April the 22nd 1937 age 87 years Neptune City New Jersey United States spouse Sandra Knight M 1,962 1,968 children Ray Nicholson Lorraine Nicholson Jennifer Nicholson Caleb James Godard honey hman Tessa gr height 1.77m parents June Francis Nicholson Donald felo grandchildren Duke Nicholson sha [Music] Norfleet Jack Nicholson an American actor producer director and screenwriter is a three-time Academy Award winner and 12-time nominee Nicholson is also notable for being one of two actors the other being Michael Kain who have received an Oscar nomination in every decade from the 60s through the ODS Nicholson was born on April 22nd 1937 in Neptune New Jersey he was raised believing that his grandmother was his mother and that his mother June Francis Nicholson a a showgirl was his older sister he discovered the truth in 1975 from a Time Magazine journalist who was researching a profile on him his real father is believed to have been either Donald fillo an Italian American showman or Eddie King Edgar keld born in lvia and also in Show Business Jack's mother's ancestry was Irish and smaller amounts of English German Scottish and Welsh Nicholson made his film debut in a be movie titled the crybaby killer 1958 his rise in Hollywood was far from meteoric and for years he sustained his career with guest spots and television series and a number of Roger Corman films including the Little Shop of Horrors 1960 Nicholson's first turn in the director's chair was for drive he said 1971 before that he wrote the screenplay for the trip 1967 and corod head 1968 a vehicle for the monkeys his big break came with Easy Rider 1969 and his portrayal of liquor soaked attorney George Hansen which earned Nicholson his first Oscar nomination Nicholson's film career took off in the 1970s with a definitive performance in Five Easy Pieces 1970 Nicholson's other notable work during this period includes leading roles in Roman palansky Noir Masterpiece Chinatown 1974 and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest 1975 for which he won his first best actor Oscar the 1980s kicked off with another career-defining role for Nicholson as Jack Torrance and Stanley Kubrick's adaptation of Stephen King's novel to shining 1980 a string of well-received films followed including Terms of Endearment 1983 which earned Nicholson his second Oscar PR's honor 1985 and The Witches of Eastwick 1987 he portrayed another renowned villain the Joker in Tim Burton's Batman 1989 in the 1990s he starred in such varied films as a Few Good Men 1992 for which he received another Oscar nomination and a dual role in Mars Attacks 1996 although a glimpse at the darker side of Nicholson's acting range reappeared in The Departed 2006 the actor's most recent roles highlight the physical and emotional complications one faces late in life the most notable of these is the unapologetically misanthropic Melvin Udall in As Good As It Gets 1997 for which he won his third Oscar shades of this Persona are apparent in About Schmidt 2002 something's got to give 2003 and the bucket list 2007 Nicholson has six children by five different women Jennifer Nicholson born in 1963 from his only marriage to Sandra Knight which ended in 1966 Caleb Goddard born in 1970 with Five Easy Pieces 1970 co-star Susan ansbach who was automatically adopted by anspach's then husband Mark Goddard honey hman born in 1982 with Danish supermodel Winnie hman Lorraine Nicholson born in 1990 and Ray Nicholson born in 1992 with minor actors Rebecca brousard and Tessa gurin born in 1994 with real estate agent Jenny Murray guran Nichol 's longest relationship was the 17 non- monogamous years he spent with Angelica Houston this ended when Bard announced she was pregnant with his child family spouse Sandra Knight June 17th 1962 to August 8th 1968 divorced one child children Jennifer Nicholson Caleb Goddard honey hullman lay Nicholson Ray son Tessa guran parents June Francis Michelson relatives Duke Nicholson grandchild sha Norfleet grandchild Ethel May Nicholson grandparent John J Nicholson grandparent lorine Nicholson sibling Walter Duffy grandchild Daisy Duffy grandchild Hank Duffy grandchild trademarks dark sunglasses Untamed hair and sharks grin often plac Charming anti-authoritarian characters frequently works with Danny DeVito frequently works as a character with mental instability his somewhat maniacal laugh method acting triangular eyebrows unmistakable smooth low pitched drawing voice trivia Boyhood friends with Danny DeVito Nicholson's relatives and DeVito's relatives managed a hair salon together has been nominated for an acting Oscar in five different decades 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s and 2000s and in two different centuries 20th and 21st once described the joker as a psychotic version of Bugs Bunny claims his personal favorite performances are his works and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest 1975 Batman 1989 haa 1992 and As Good As It Gets 1997 loves jokes at his expense so much that he showed up at every Academy Awards hosted by Billy Crystal who in turn would incorporate Nicholson somehow in The Telecast after his first screen test LS B mayor said to him I don't know what we can use you for but if we ever do need you we'll need you real bad Batman Creator Bob K personally recommended him for the role of the Joker in Batman 1989 his famous trademark sunglasses have prescription lenses since he is very shortsighted his art collection includes matis Warhol Tamara DEA and Picasso The Collection is estimated to be worth over $100 million turned down the lead role of Roy m in Close Encounters of the Third Kind 1977 even though he knew the movie would be a success as he felt that the special effects would overwhelm any actor in the movie attended his 50th High School reunion at manasin High School in manasin New Jersey needless to say his classmates were surprised and delighted that he attended is an accomplished and well-paid Ghost Writer dedicated his Oscar for As Good As It Gets 1997 to JT Walsh his co-star and A Few Good Men 1992 who had died shortly before the Academy Awards in 1998 once said in an interview that if he get Jim Carrey Tom Cruz Robert Downey Jr and Johnny Depp to be a part of it he will start his own wrestling promotion demolished his neighbor Marlon Brando's Bungalow which he bought for £ 3.4 million pound following the actor's death in 2004 long refused to do any televised interviews except for press conferences but in recent years he has occasionally agreed to speak briefly when approached by reporters he has not appeared on a talk show since 1971 used to be an office worker for William Hannah and Joseph Barbara at mgm's cartoon department they actually offered him a job as an animator at the studio but he declined in order to focus on his acting career was interested in playing the father in A Christmas Story 1983 but the budget could not meet his high salary demands he was asked to play the role of Michael corleon in The Godfather 1972 he turned it down suggesting that an actual Italian should play the part he was also considered for Tom Hagen his mother June Francis Nicholson had Irish and smaller amounts of English Scottish Welsh and Pennsylvania Dutch German ancestry Jack never knew his biological father and was raised by his maternal grandparents he was led to believe that June was his older sister and his grandparents were his parents it was not until 1974 when a Time Magazine reporter resed searched his life that he learned the truth an Italian immigrant named Donald fillo who was married briefly to June may have been Jack's biological father it is also possible that Jack's biological father was Edgar a keld a lan born Entertainer known as Eddie King Nicholson has chosen not to investigate further his first job was as male clerk in the Hannah Barbara cartoon division of MGM after presenting the best picture Oscar at the 78th annual ual Academy Awards 2006 to crash 2004 he told the Press he was surprised as he thought Brokeback Mountain 2005 would win Nicholson then told the press that he himself had voted for Brokeback Mountain 2005 as of 2009 he has an estimated Fortune of nearly $240 Million Lives on famed bad boy Drive AKA Mulholland Drive in Beverly Hills California it's nickname so because its residents have included former Hollywood Bad Boys Warren batty and the late Marlon Brando with his win for As Good As It Gets 1997 in 1998 he became the first actor in 20 years to win both a best actor Golden Globe comedy and an Oscar for the same role has owned a Mercedes-Benz 600 for 30 years which he considers the best touring car of all time he owned a car that was driven by Tommy Chong's character and Up in Smoke 19 78 presented the best picture Oscar eight times 1972 1977 1978 1990 1993 2006 2007 and 2013 more than any other actor or actress though he was a relative newcomer and lacked the status typically associated with best picture presenters the then two-time nominee took on the assignment in 1972 when many better-known celebrities boed at the job worried that they would be tainted if Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange 1971 won the top gong and they were seen by the public as linked to the controversial picture Nicholson who early on declared publicly that he loved the Oscar when the sentiment was not Chic happily obliged in addition to presenting the best actor trophy in 1999 he also presented the thalberg award to Warren batty in 200 and an honorary award to Michelangelo antonioni in 1995 is an avid fan of the Los Angeles Lakers and is often seated next to his good friend Lou Adler he rarely misses a Lakers home game contrary to popular belief Nicholson never had production companies scheduled the filming of a movie he was in to accommodate his attendance at sporting events Nicholson is also a lifelong fan of the New York Yankees each one of the films for which he has won an Oscar has also won best actress in a leading role Luise Fletcher One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest 197 5 Shirley mlan Terms of Endearment 1983 Helen Hunt As Good As It Gets 1997 is a lifelong devotee of Bob Dylan and Lou Armstrong he was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6925 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood California on December 4th 1996 in 1994 in an apparent bout of Rage he smashed a man's car window in with a golf club he he expressed remorse for the incident in an interview with Us magazine two of his three Oscar winning performances were directed by James L Brooks this makes him one of four actors to win two Oscars under the same person's Direction the other three are Walter Brennan for Come and Get It 1936 and the Westerner 1940 both directed by William Wier Diane West for Hannah and Her Sisters 1986 and Bullets Over Broadway 1994 both directed by Woody Allen and Kristoff Waltz foring glorious bastard 2009 and Jango Unchained 2012 both directed by Quinton Tarantino has six children by five women Jennifer Nicholson B September 13th 1963 with Sandra Knight Caleb Goddard B September 26th 1970 with Susan ansbach Honey hman B January 26th 1982 with Winnie hman Lorraine Nicholson B April 16th 1990 and Ray Nicholson B February 20th 1992 with Rebecca brousard and Tessa guran B August 15th 1994 with Jenny Marie guran quotes the average celebrity meets in one year 10 times the amount of people that the average person meets in his entire life on the $5 million he earned For a Few Good Men 1992 it was one of the few times when it was money well spent regarding Terms of Endearment 1983 when I read the part I knew I'd win the Oscar for it you only lie to two people in your life your girlfriend and the police if you get an Impulse in a scene no matter how wrong it seems follow the impulse it might be something and if it ain't take two a star on a movie set is like a time bomb that bomb has got to be diffused so people can approach it without fear on the birth of his son after having had two daughters I finally got it right when I come up against a director who has a concept that I don't agree with or maybe I just haven't thought of it or whatever I'd be more prone to go with them than my own because I want to be out of control as an actor I want them to have the control otherwise it's going to become predictably my work and that's not fun I only take Viagra when I am with more than one woman I'm not a raver anymore all good things must come to an end I was particularly proud of my performance as the Joker I considered it a piece of pop art my motto is more Good Times a question you always ask in acting is where were you going if this scene didn't interrupt the movements of the character you're new here aren't you Nicholson who rarely is seen in public without his sunglasses replied when asked by a photographer to take off his glasses for a photo there's a period just before you start a movie when you start thinking I don't know what in the world I'm going to do it's free floating anxiety in my case though this is over by lunch the first day of shooting every director implored me Jack can't you talk a little bit faster it was like a hot button for me and I would become hateful so when Roman started to say it I began and he said Jack this movie is 10 and something pages long to have a movie that is screenable you'll have to talk a little faster Roman Lansky directed him in Chinatown 1974 on turning down the role played by Robert Redford in the sting 1973 I liked the period the whole project and I knew it would be commercial but at the time I needed to put my energies into a movie that really needed them I needed to take a risk on being nominated for an Oscar for the third time for The Last Detail 1973 the first time I was up for an Oscar I thought I would win it but I didn't have as sharp of view as I do now the second time I expected to lose and deservedly lose to George C Scott but even getting a nomination blows my mind I'd love to win but now that I've had several good performances that people at large have liked it becomes harder to excite them and familiarity breeds contempt so I mean it when I say that if you can't appreciate Brando I wouldn't know how to talk to you if there's anything obvious in life this is it other actors don't go around discussing who is the best actor in the world because it's obvious Marlon Brando is I don't want people to know what I'm actually like it's not good for an actor I'm very Contra my constituency in terms of abortion because I'm positively against it I don't have the right to any other view my only emotion is gratitude literally for my life on Stanley kubri just because you're a perfectionist doesn't mean you're perfect beer it's the best damn drink in the world 1992 I don't believe in God now I can still work up in Envy for someone who has a faith I can see how that could be a deeply soothing experience as an actor I have no desire for anybody to understand my past work period 1996 I just wish every film I liked wasn't either foreign or made in America but with such terrible difficulty this is the worst period ever for trying to do interesting work with my sunglasses on I'm Jack Nicholson without them I'm fat and 70 I would be so happy if I didn't smoke for a lot of reasons I can't believe that I can't break the habit I don't want to be lying around dying in Cedar Sinai Hospital and thinking that I was a stupid enough a man who is as petrified of dying as I am to have done it to myself I'm a real Fredy cat about Mort ality the thing I like about the Joker is that his sense of humor is completely tasteless we were moving to a Freer Society before AIDS most people who investigated this knew that if you were not shooting up or getting F asteris GIS GIS get in the heiney you were as likely to get AIDS as you were to have a safe fall on your head while walking down Wilshire Boulevard but you could not prooze this view the facts were almost useless you couldn't give a woman the facts and have her resp respond oh all right salaries how do you know 2010 $12 million aner management2 2003 $20 million About Schmidt $ 2003 $10 million The Pledge $2 2001 $10 million As Good As It Gets 1997 $15 million wolf 1994 $113 million haa 1992 $10 million A Few Good Men $ 1992 $5 million the two Jakes 1990 $5 million Batman 1989 $6 million plus profit percentage totaling $60 million Ironweed 1988 $5 million The Witches of Eastwick 1987 $6 million hartburn 1986 $4 million Terms of Endearment 1983 $1 million plus profit percentage totaling $9 million The Shining 1980 $1,250,000 the Missouri breaks 1976 $1,250,000 plus 10% of all gross receipts above $12.5 million One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest 197 5 $1 million plus 15% gross the fortune 1975 10% gross from the very first dollar Tommy 1975 $775,000 Chinatown 1974 $500,000 on a clear day you can see forever 1970 $12,500 [Music] n