Jack Nicholson

John Joseph Nicholson is American retired actor and filmmaker.

 KEY FACTS:

• Born:

  April22,1937 in Neptune, New Jersey.

• Occupation:

  Actor, director, producer, screenwriter.

• Notable Awards:

  Three Academy Award seven Gold Globe Award, Cecil B. DeMille Award Kennedy Center honor.

• Known for:

  Versatile performances often portraying antiheroes and alienated outsiders including roles in “Easy Rider,” ”Chinatown,” “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest,” “The shining,” and “As good as it Gets”.

• Career Highlights:

  Debut in “The Cry Baby Killer” (1958), “Easy Rider”(1969) marked his rise to stardom, and his career continued for over five decades.

• Personal Life: Married to Sandra knight (1962-1968), has one daughter, Jennifer Nicholson.

In 1986, the New York time said that “a case could be made that Jack Nicholson has inscribed an idiosyncratic character on the face of our age, one that has reflected and shaped the contemporary personality in a way that only a very few film actors have done. In support, the paper quoted the acclaimed film and stage director Mike Nichols, who directed Nicholson in carnal Knowledge and Heartburn:” There is James Cagney, Spencer Tracy , Humphrey Bogart and Henry Fonda.  Stanley Kubrick, who directed Nicholson in The Shining, once said that Nicholson brings to a role the one unactable quality-great intelligence. “He’s a serious artist,” said Meryl Streep, his Heartburn co-star. More than three decades later, he rains at once an enduring counterculture icon and the very symbol of contemporary Hollywood.

Born on the East Coast, Nicholson traveled to California at age 17 and landed a job as an office boy in MGM’s animation department.  “I just love the work,” he has said. “I love to act.” And that love translates to quality. Jack Nicholson’s achievement consists of some of the finest work in Cinema.

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