Jack Nicholson
Gender: Male
Born: 22nd April 1937 (currently 75 years old)
Nationality: United States of America
TV programs: Dr. Kildare
Movies: A Safe Place, About Schmidt, Anger Management, As Good as It Gets, Carnal Knowledge, Chinatown, Easy Rider, Five Easy Pieces, Goin' South, Heartburn, Mars Attacks!, Prizzi's Honor, Reds, Something's Gotta Give, Terms of Endearment, The Departed, The King of Marvin Gardens, The Little Shop of Horrors, The Passenger, The Postman Always Rings Twice, The Shining, The Shooting, The Terror, The Two Jakes, Batman, The Cry Baby Killer, Too Soon to Love, The Wild Ride, Studs Lonigan, The Raven, Flight to Fury, Ensign Pulver, Back Door to Hell, Ride in the Whirlwind, Tommy, The Pledge, The Last Detail, The Evening Star, The St. Valentine's Day Massacre, The Missouri Breaks, Blood and Wine, Psych-Out, The Crossing Guard, Hells Angels on Wheels, The Rebel Rousers, The Fortune, The Border, Hoffa, The Witches of Eastwick, The Last Tycoon, Wolf, The Bucket List, Ironweed, Ragtime, On a Clear Day You Can See Forever, Head, Broadcast News, A Few Good Men, The Broken Land, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Flight to Fury, How Do You Know, Man Trouble, RiffTrax: The Little Shop of Horrors, Jack Nicholson: Cult Classics, Mars Attacks!
Not to be confused with Nicholas Jackson
John Joseph "Jack" Nicholson (born April 22, 1937) is an American actor, film director, producer and writer. He is renowned for his often dark portrayals of neurotic characters. His twelve Oscar nominations make him the second most nominated actor of all time, behind only Meryl Streep, and tied with Katharine Hepburn.
Nicholson has been nominated for an Academy Award twelve times and has won the Academy Award for Best Actor twice: for One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and for As Good as It Gets. He also won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for the 1983 film Terms of Endearment. He is tied with Walter Brennan for most acting wins by a male actor (three). Nicholson is well known for playing villainous roles such as Jack Torrance in The Shining, Frank Costello in The Departed, and the Joker in 1989's Batman, among many other roles.
Nicholson is one of only two actors who have been nominated for an Academy Award for acting in every decade from the 1960s to 2000s; the other is Michael Caine. He has won seven Golden Globe Awards, and received a Kennedy Center Honor in 2001. In 1994, he became one of the youngest actors to be awarded the
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