Jack Nicholson
Birthday: 1937-04-22 | Place of Birth: Manhattan, New York, USAJohn Joseph "Jack" Nicholson (born April 22, 1937) is an American actor, film director, producer and writer. He is renowned for his often dark-themed portrayals of neurotic characters. Nicholson has been nominated for Academy Awards 12 times. He 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 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), and second to Katharine Hepburn for most acting wins overall (four). He is also one of only two actors nominated for an Academy Award for acting (either lead or supporting) in every decade from the 1960s to 2000s (the other one being 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 American Film Institute's Life Achievement Award. Notable films in which he has starred include, in chronological order, Easy Rider, Five Easy Pieces, Chinatown, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, The Shining, The Postman Always Rings Twice, Reds, Terms of Endearment, Batman, A Few Good Men, As Good as It Gets, About Schmidt, Something's Gotta Give and The Departed. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jack Nicholson, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Acting
Role
as Self (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage)
as Self - Actor
as Charles
as Jack Nicholson
as Edward Periman Cole
as Costello
as Dr. Buddy Rydell
as Harry Sanborn
as Warren Schmidt
as Jerry Black
as Alex
as Melvin Udall
as President Dale / Art Land
as Freddy Gale
as Self
as Will Randall
as Col. Nathan R. Jessep
as Harry Bliss
as James R. 'Jimmy' Hoffa
as J.J. "Jake" Gittes
as Jack Napier / Joker
as Bill Rorich
as Daryl Van Horne
