Jack Nicholson
Jack Nicholson Nicholson in a publicity photo, May 1981 Born John Joseph Nicholson (1937-04-22) April 22, 1937 (age 77) Neptune City, New Jersey, United States Residence Hollywood Hills, California Nationality American Alma mater Actors Studio Occupation Actor, director, producer, screenwriter Years active 1957–present Home town Neptune City, New Jersey Spouse(s) Sandra Knight (1962–1968) Children 5; Jennifer Nicholson (1963), Caleb James Goddard (1970), Honey Hollman (1981), Lorraine Nicholson (1990), Ray Nicholson (1992) Awards Academy Awards Best Actor 1975 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest 1997 As Good as It Gets Best Supporting Actor 1983 Terms of Endearment Golden Globe Awards Best Actor - Drama 1974 Chinatown 1975 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest 2002 About Schmidt Best Actor - Musical or Comedy 1985 Prizzi's Honor 1997 As Good as It Gets Best Supporting Actor 1983 Terms of Endearment Cecil B. DeMille Award 1999 BAFTA Awards Best Actor in a Leading Role 1974 The Last Detail / Chinatown 1976 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Best Actor in a Supporting Role 1981 Reds Grammy Awards Grammy Award for Best Album for Children 1988 The Elephant's Child Screen Actors Guild Awards Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role 1997 As Good as It Gets Critics' Choice Movie Awards Best Actor 1997 As Good as It Gets 2002 About Schmidt John Joseph "Jack" Nicholson (born April 22, 1937) is an American actor, film director, producer, and writer. Throughout his career, Nicholson has portrayed unique and challenging roles, many of which include dark portrayals of excitable, neurotic and psychopathic characters. Nicholson's 12 Academy Award nominations make him the most nominated male actor in the Academy's history. Nicholson has won the Academy Award for Best Actor twice, one for the drama One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) and the other for the romantic comedy As Good as It Gets (1997). He also won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for the comedy-drama Terms of Endearment (1983). Nicholson is tied with Walter Brennan and Daniel Day-Lewis as one of three male actors to win three Academy Awards. In 1988 Nicholson won a Grammy Award for Best Album for Children for The Elephant's Child. He is well known for playing Frank Costello in the Martin Scorsese-directed crime drama The Departed (2006), Jack Torrance in the Stanley Kubrick-directed psychological horror film The Shining and the Joker in Batman (1989). Nicholson is one of only two actors to be nominated for an Academy Award for acting in every decade from the 1960s to the 2000s; the other was Michael Caine. He has won six Golden Globe Awards, and received the 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. Other notable films in which he has starred include the road movie Easy Rider (1969), the drama Five Easy Pieces (1970), the comedy-drama film The Last Detail (1973), the neo-noir mystery film Chinatown (1974), the drama The Passenger (1975), the epic film Reds (1981), the romantic horror film Wolf (1994), the legal drama A Few Good Men (1992), the Sean Penn-directed mystery film The Pledge (2001), and the comedy-drama About Schmidt (2002).