John Joseph Nicholson is an American actor and filmmaker. He won the Academy Award for Best Actor twice for One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest and As Good as It Gets. He has also won six Golden Globe Awards and received the Kennedy Center Honor in 2001. Nicholson had a number of high-profile relationships, including ones with Anjelica Huston and Rebecca Broussard.
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John Joseph Nicholson is an American actor and filmmaker. He is known for having played a wide range of starring or supporting roles, including comedy, romance, and darkly comic portrayals of anti-heroes and villainous characters. Nicholson has won the Academy Award for Best Actor twice for One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest and As Good as It Gets. He has also won six Golden Globe Awards and received the Kennedy Center Honor in 2001. Nicholson had a number of high-profile relationships, including ones with Anjelica Huston and Rebecca Broussard, and was married to Sandra Knight from 1962 to 1968. He was born on April 22, 1937, in Neptune City, New Jersey, the son of a showgirl, June Frances Nicholson. In 1974, Time magazine researchers learned, and informed Nicholson, that his sister June, was actually his mother, and his other sister Lorraine, was really his aunt. By this time, both his mother and grandmother had died. On finding out, Nicholson said it was \”a pretty dramatic event, but it wasn’t what I’d call traumatizing… I was pretty well psychologically formed\”. He has five children: one with Knight, two with BrouSSard, and one each with Susan Anspach and Winnie Hollman. In 1994, at 57, he became one of the youngest actors to be awarded the American Film Institute’s Life Achievement Award. His most known and celebrated films include the road drama Easy Rider ; the dramas Five Easy Pieces and One FleW Over The Cuckoos’s Nest ; the comedy-dramas Carnal Knowledge, The Last Detail, Terms of Endearment, Prizzi’s Honor, As Good As It Gets, and About Schmidt ; the neo-noir mystery Chinatown ; the horror film The Shining ; the biopic Reds ; the fantasy comedy The Witches of Eastwick ; the superhero film Batman ; the legal drama A Few Good Men ; the romantic horror film Wolf ; the science fiction comedy Mars Attacks! and the crime drama The Departed.
He hasAlso directed three films, including The Two Jakes. Nicholson’s 12 Academy Award nominations make him the most nominated male actor in the Academy’s history. In 2004, Nicholson attended his 50-year high school reunion accompanied by his aunt Lorraine. In 1957, Nicholson joined the California National Air Guard, sometimes characterized as a move to the draft. During the Korean War–era’s Korean Crisis of 1961, Nicholson was called up for extended duty and performed two years of active duty. During this time he performed two-week drills as a firefighter assigned to a unit based at the Van Nuys Airport in California. Nicholson is one of only three male actors to win three Academy Awards for acting in every decade from the 1960s to the 2000s. His mother was of Irish, English, German, and Welsh descent. She married Italian-American showman Donald Furcillo in 1936, before realizing that he was already married.
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