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Feb 22, 2024 · Jack Nicholson is 86 years old as of 2024. He is one of the most iconic and versatile actors of his generation, who has starred in over 60 films and won three Academy Awards.
John Joseph Nicholson (born April 22, 1937) is a retired American actor and filmmaker. [1] . Nicholson is widely regarded as one of the greatest actors of the 20th century. [2] [3] Throughout his five-decade career he received numerous accolades, including three Academy Awards, three BAFTA Film Awards, six Golden Globe Awards, and a Grammy Award.
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Jack Nicholson, an American actor, producer, director and screenwriter, is a three-time Academy Award winner and twelve-time nominee. Nicholson is also notable for being one of two actors - the other being Michael Caine - who have received Oscar nomination in every decade from the 1960s through the early 2000s.
Nicholson was born on April 22, 1937, in Neptune, New Jersey. He was raised believing that his grandmother was his mother, and that his mother, June Frances Nicholson, 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 eithe...
Nicholson made his film debut in a B-movie titled The Cry Baby Killer (1958). His rise in Hollywood was far from meteoric, and for years, he sustained his career with guest spots in 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 co-wrote Head (1968), a vehicle for The Monkees. His big break came with Easy Rider (1969) and his portrayal of liquor-soaked attorney George Hanson, which earned Nicholson his first Oscar nomination. Nicholson...
The 1980s kicked off with another career-defining role for Nicholson as Jack Torrance in Stanley Kubrick's adaptation of Stephen King's novel The Shining (1980). A string of well-received films followed, including Terms of Endearment (1983), which earned Nicholson his second Oscar; Prizzi's Honor (1985), and The Witches of Eastwick (1987). He portr...
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. Shad...
Nicholson has five children: Eldest daughter Jennifer Nicholson (b. 1963), from his marriage to Sandra Knight, which ended in 1968; Caleb James Goddard (b. 1970) with Susan Anspach; Honey Hollman (b. 1981) with Danish supermodel, Winnie Hollman; and Lorraine Nicholson (b. 1990) and Ray Nicholson (b. 1992) with Rebecca Broussard. Nicholson's longest...
- April 22, 1937
Apr 2, 2014 · Jack Nicholson is an American actor born on April 22, 1937, in New Jersey. He has starred in many acclaimed films, such as Easy Rider, Chinatown, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, The Shining and Terms of Endearment.
The three-time Oscar winner, who hasn't starred in a movie since 2010, turns 87 years old on Monday, April 22.
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1 day ago · Jack Nicholson (born April 22, 1937, Neptune, New Jersey, U.S.) is one of the most prominent American motion-picture actors of his generation, especially noted for his versatile portrayals of unconventional, alienated outsiders.
Apr 22, 2022 · The web page celebrates the 86th birthday of the Academy Award-winning actor Jack Nicholson, who was born on April 22, 1937 in Neptune, New Jersey. It shows a collection of photos of his early days, career milestones, personal relationships, and family life. It does not mention his age at the time of his birth.
