Jack Nicholson's biography

John Joseph Nicholson is 85 years old film actor born at Neptune City. John was born on Thursday 22nd of April 1937. John is often nicknamed as Jack Nicholson, Mulholland Man, Nick. According to year of birth 1937 he belongs to Silent Generation. Birthday on 22nd of April means John is Taurus. Taurus is most stable sign of Zodiac, that is the reason it is also included in the earthy sign of the Zodiac Belt. One born with this Moon Sign (Not a Rising Sign) is very stable and balanced through their mind.

John is native english speaker. John is white american. He is citizen of United States of America. John is atheist. His primary profession is to be film actor. You can know him also as actor, art collector, film director, screenwriter, film producer, character actor, television actor. He is recently known as writer. He received Academy Award for Best Actor One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest in 1976

Jack Nicholson's mom

Jack Nicholson's mother's name is June Frances Nicholson.

Jack Nicholson's family

He has 2 daughters.

Jack Nicholson's daughter: Honey Hollman

Jack Nicholson's daughter's name is Honey Hollman. She is known as actor. His daughter was born in 1981 in Denmark.

Jack Nicholson's daughter: Lorraine Nicholson

Jack Nicholson's daughter's name is Lorraine Nicholson. She is known as actor. His daughter was born on Monday 16th of April 1990 in Los Angeles.

Jack Nicholson's schools

We found 3 schools John attended. Complete list of schools: Actors Studio, Manasquan High School, The Center for Early Education.

Detailed informations about John´s schools

Graduated from Manasquan High School in Manasquan, New Jersey, where he was voted "Class Clown" by the Class of 1954.
Attended his 50th high school reunion at Manasquan High School in Manasquan, New Jersey. Needless to say, his classmates were surprised and delighted that he attended. [2004]
He graduated from Manasquan High School in New Jersey and headed for California, where he went onto work in the MGM cartoon department and mail room. [June 1954]

Jack Nicholson's career

John´s main focus is to be film actor and acting. He is famous thanks to Hoffa, The Shining, The Two Jakes. You could see him also in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Terms of Endearment, As Good as It Gets, Chinatown, The Departed, About Schmidt, Prizzi's Honor, Reds and many more.

Is Jack Nicholson gay ?

He is known to be straight.

Jack Nicholson's girlfriends

Anjelica Huston

Jack Nicholson and Anjelica Huston have been together since 1973 for 17 years. She is known as television actor. John´s girlfriend was born on Sunday 8th of July 1951 in Santa Monica.

Rebecca Broussard

Jack Nicholson and Rebecca Broussard have been together since 1989 for 5 years. She is known as actor. His girlfriend was born on Thursday 3rd of January 1963 in Louisville.

Winnie Hollman

Jack Nicholson and Winnie Hollman have been together. She is known as actor.

Awards and competitions

Jack Nicholson's Awards

John received award for Academy Award for Best Actor for work One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest in 1976
He received award for Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for work Terms of Endearment in 1984
John received award for Academy Award for Best Actor for work As Good as It Gets in 1998
John received award for Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama for work Chinatown in 1975
He received award for MTV Movie Award for Best Villain for work The Departed in 2007
He received award for BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role for work Chinatown in 1975
John received award for Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama for work One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest in 1976
He received award for Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama for work About Schmidt in 2003
John received award for Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture for work Terms of Endearment in 1984
John received award for Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy for work Prizzi's Honor in 1986
He received award for Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy for work As Good as It Gets in 1998
He received award for BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role for work One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest in 1977
John received award for BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for work Reds in 1983

Jack Nicholson's Rankings

Ranked #6 in Empire (UK) magazine's "The Top 100 Movie Stars of All Time" list. [October 1997]
His performance as Billy "Bad Ass" Buddusky in The Last Detail (1973) is ranked #12 on Premiere magazine's 100 Greatest Performances of All Time (2006).
His performance as Randle Patrick McMurphy in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) is ranked #47 on Premiere magazine's 100 Greatest Performances of All Time (2006).
His performance as Jack Torrance in The Shining (1980) is ranked #82 on Premiere magazine's 100 Greatest Movie Characters of All Time.
His performance as Jake "J.J." Gittes in Chinatown (1974) is ranked #37 on Premiere magazine's 100 Greatest Movie Characters of All Time.
His performance as Randle Patrick McMurphy in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) is ranked #14 on Premiere magazine's 100 Greatest Movie Characters of All Time.
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) is ranked #17 on the American Film Institute's 100 Most Inspiring Movies of All Time.
His performance as Jack Torrance in The Shining (1980) is ranked #25 on the American Film Institute's 100 Heroes & Villains.
His performance as The Joker in Batman (1989) is ranked #45 on the American Film Institute's 100 Heroes & Villains.
Premiere magazine ranked him #16 on a list of The Greatest Movie Stars of All Time in their Stars in Our Constellation feature (2005).

Jack Nicholson's Nominations

He was nominated for Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for work Easy Rider in 1969
John was nominated for Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor
He was nominated for Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor
He was nominated for Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor
He was nominated for Academy Award for Best Actor
He was nominated for Academy Award for Best Actor
John was nominated for Academy Award for Best Actor
He was nominated for Academy Award for Best Actor
He was nominated for Academy Award for Best Actor
He was nominated for Academy Award for Best Actor
John was nominated for Academy Award for Best Actor
He was nominated for Academy Award for Best Actor
John was nominated for Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor for work The Last Detail in 1974

What Jack Nicholson has done for a first time

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.
He was the first choice to play Tank Sullivan in Space Cowboys (2000), which went to James Garner.
After his first screen test, Louis B. Mayer 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.".
Became a father for the first time at age 26 when his [now ex] wife Sandra Knight gave birth to their daughter Jennifer Nicholson on September 13, 1963.
Has the largest gap between first and second Best Lead Actor Oscars, which is 22 years between One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) and As Good as It Gets (1997).
A lifelong friend of Harry Dean Stanton (both having first co-starred in Ride in the Whirlwind (1966)) Jack has reportedly inserted Harry's name/initials "HDS" somewhere in a number of his films from the 1970s.
His first job was as mail clerk in the Hanna - Barbera cartoon division of M.G.M.
Was the first choice for the role of Sidney Lipkin in Scenes from the Class Struggle in Beverly Hills (1989).

Jack Nicholson's quotes

The average celebrity meets, in one year, ten 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 defused so people can approach it without fear.
[on the birth of his son after having had two daughters] I finally got it right.
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.
[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.
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 Kubrick] 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 an 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 seventy.
The thing I like about The Joker is that his sense of humor is completely tasteless.
I think it is very unattractive for me to be seen fawning over little, tiny girls. I didn't feel that for a long time but now I do. If I could slip them out the back entrance wrapped in a blanket, that's a different story. (February 2004)
[on Jessica Lange] She is like a delicate fawn, but crossed with a Buick.
I've grown out of talking like I know something when I don't.
Star quality is if you're on stage and a cat walks on and they still watch you.
It's not so nice when you are 71 and looking for some action. I feel uncomfortable doing it in the limelight - so from now on I'll do it when it's right. Happily, when it comes to girls hitting on me, I'm not undernourished.
I come from the Lynchs of Sligo (Ireland). You know, I went there, but I looked in the phone book and there are nine million Lynchs in Sligo.
[on Stanley Kubrick] Everyone pretty much acknowledges him as The Man, and I still think that underrates him.
For a long time, I was afraid to be alone. I had to learn how to be alone. And there are still times when I think, Uh-oh! I gotta talk to somebody here or I'm gonna go crazy! But I like to be alone. Now I do. I really do. There's a big luxury in solitude.
After September 11, I held my tongue. All of the public positions had been taken -- for, against, good, evil. I had nothing more to add. So I thought, Bring in the clowns, you know what I mean? That's why I've done a coupla years' worth of comedies.
[on On a Clear Day You Can See Forever (1970)] All I am in the movie is bad.
I hate giving advice, because people won't take it.
I love discourse. I'm dying to have my mind changed. I'm probably the only liberal who read Treason, by Ann Coulter. I want to know, you understand? I like listening to everybody. This to me is the elixir of life.
I'm the age where we didn't have television as kids. So when I saw my nieces and nephews watching Howdy Doody (1954), Kukla, Fran and Ollie (1969), and so forth, I thought the world had gone mad.
I always hesitate to say things like this in interviews because they tend to come back to haunt you, but if I were an Arab-American, I would insist on being profiled. This is not the time for civil rights. There are larger issues for Americans.
I don't know if this is a true statistic, but I heard somewhere that there are three times as many single women over forty as single men. That's what we got from the women's movement. The chickens have come home to roost.
The less people know about me, the easier my job is.
(2011) I am from a different era of movie acting. My career doesn't depend on explosions and pyrotechnics.
(2011) On set I'm an actor like every other actor. Most times, for every part I play, I can think of other actors who would be better. I worry from the moment I take a job.
I'm not worried about wrinkles, in myself or in women. I find them interesting. I can't see so well, so sometimes I look in the mirror and I see how I was as a young man.
I'm so rich that I'm going to sell myself like an ordinary person. I'm not into money at all.
[advice to Harry Dean Stanton on screen-acting] Just let the wardrobe be the character. You play yourself. That's the way you approach it.
[on Heath Ledger's death] I warned him of the stress, the pressure, and the expectations that comes with that Joker character.
[on working with Martin Scorsese in The Departed (2006)] We wanted to create a really bad man, basically a villain who was pretty flamboyant and somebody who you wanted them to get pretty bad. I thought it would bring out the best in Marty.
In my whole career there was only one time when a director said to me, "OK, come right down the pike and just look beautiful, Jack". That was Ken Russell on Tommy (1975).
The only really good role I've rejected - and I could kill myself - was The Great Gatsby (1974). Since I was 18, people said I should do Jay Gatsby. I didn't really go after the part for well, personal reasons I don't want printed.
Stardom? Your name becomes a brand image like a product. You become Campbell's soup, with 31 different varieties of roles you can play.
[on Warren Beatty] He's the right height for a movie star. I'm too short.
What I wish I knew at 18? Everything - from wishing I learned a foreign language to becoming a good chef.

Jack Nicholson's height, body shape, eye color, hair color

Lets describe how Jack Nicholson looks. We will focus on his height, body shape, eye color, hair color and shoe size. He is tall as 5' 10" (178 cm). Body build is athletic. His eyes are tinted hazel. His hair is shade of brown - dark. If you are really curious, you may find interesting John´s shoe size is 44.

Jack Nicholson