Biography of Jack Nicholson
John "Jack" Joseph Nicholson is an American actor, director, screenwriter and producer, known around the world for his numerous roles as crazy characters. Among the most high-profile films with his participation: “The Shining” by Stanley Kubrick, “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” by Milos Forman, “Batman” by Tim Burton. Other films worth mentioning: Easy Rider, Five Easy Pieces, Chinatown by Roman Polanski, The Passenger, Terms of Endearment, A Few Good Men, As Good As It Gets, The Departed by Martin Scorsese.
There's a touch of madness in every Jack Nicholson character.
Jack Nicholson was nominated for an Oscar 12 times, of which he won 3 times: two for Best Actor (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest in 1976, As Good As It Gets in 1998) and one for Best Supporting Actor (“Terms of endearment” in 1984). His collection of awards also includes seven Golden Globes. In 1994, Nicholson became the youngest actor in history to receive a lifetime award from the American Film Institute.
Jack Nicholson: best films
The career of actor Jack Nicholson began immediately after graduation, when he got a job at the MGM film studio and took acting classes there. After his film debut in 1963 in the thriller “The Terror,” Jack, without receiving any popularity, began to increasingly prove himself as a director and screenwriter, only occasionally appearing in low-budget films. However, neither the acting work of this period in the films “Cry Baby Killer”, “Little Shop of Horrors”, “The Raven”, “Fear”, nor his scripts for the films “Island of Thunder”, “Flight of Fury”, “Riding the Twister” were not successful. The actor's real breakthrough into the world of big cinema took place only in 1969, when Nicholson starred in the film Easy Rider. This role not only brought Jack long-awaited fame, but also nominations for the most prestigious cinema awards - the Golden Globe and Oscar. The actor repeated the same successes a year later. For his performance in the film “Five Easy Pieces,” Nicholson was again nominated for these awards as best actor. Jack managed to get his first treasured figurine thanks to the film “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest,” which was released in 1975. Three years later, he again won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor in the film “Terms of Endearment.” But the restless Nicholson did not stop there. In 1997, Jack again became the winner for his talented work in the film “As Good as It Gets.” In addition to these films, which received such high prizes and awards and rightfully received the status of film masterpieces, during his creative career Nicholson played many equally interesting and fascinating roles: the role in one of the most terrible films “The Shining”, the role of the Joker in the film “Batman” and , of course, the role of a werewolf in the film "Wolf". Jack replenished his creative treasury with a wide variety of films: from complex psychological films to light comedies and terrifying thrillers. Currently, actor Jack Nicholson continues his acting career. Of his latest works, the films “About Schmidt”, “Anger Management”, “Love with or without Rules”, “The Departed” became successful. Jack Nicholson continues to be considered one of the greatest actors in the history of cinema, and his awards and awards only serve as indisputable proof of this. The actor has 12 Oscar nominations, three of which ended in victory, seven Golden Globe awards and awards from the Kennedy Center and the American Film Institute.
Childhood
Jack was born on April 22, 1937 in Manhattan, in the family of 18-year-old dancer June Nicholson, in whose veins Irish, English and German blood flowed. Six months before the birth of her son, June married her colleague, showman Donald Furcillo. He believed that he was the father of June’s child, and despite the fact that he was already married to someone else, he invited the girl to take on the costs of raising the child. June's parents opposed this - they took the baby with them so that their daughter could calmly continue her career as a dancer.
Childhood photo of Jack Nicholson
Jack grew up in the home of his grandfather, who worked as a window dresser in a store, and his grandmother, a hairdresser and beautician. He believed they were his parents and June was his sister. He learned that this was a lie from Time journalists in 1974, when both his grandmother and mother were already dead. There is also a theory that his biological father is June's manager Eddie King. The actor never found out who his father really was, refusing all the proposed DNA tests.
As a child, Jack Nicholson sang in the church choir
Nick, as Jack's friends called him, was brought up in the spirit of Catholicism and even sang in the church choir. He took an active part in the life of the church community to which his grandmother belonged, but in high school he abandoned religion. Subsequently, he mentioned more than once that he did not consider himself an atheist, but he could not be called an avid churchgoer either. “The only time I pray is while I’m jogging,” Nicholson joked. In 1992, the actor came to the conclusion that he was an agnostic.
Young Jack Nicholson (photo from school diary)
At the 1954 school prom, his peers unanimously voted him first class clown. Much later, the school initiated an award for students who excel in acting, and named it after Nicholson.
Jack Nicholson's children
Photo: Jack Nicholson and his son, Ray
The actor has six children. In none of the six cases did Jack Nicholson deny paternity, but two of them - son Caleb, born from Susan Anspach, and daughter Honey, from Winnie Hollman, do not bear his father's surname. Nicholson himself does not consider himself an ideal father and admits that he has lost and missed out on a lot by not taking an active part in the lives of his children. He communicated with them sporadically, seeing some of them once every few months, and some even a couple of times in their entire lives.
Photo: Jack Nicholson and his daughter, Lorraine Nicholson
“I don’t force my children to be frank, I don’t encourage them to be frank with me, because I don’t want to infect them with my irrational fears...” says Jack. “There was a time when they were shy and secretive about me, but now they are all fighting together for my attention.” I influenced them positively as best I could - I read books, took them to the theater... But I feel guilty before them for not being able to be a father to them in the usual sense of the word, to be with them all the time.
Carier start
After graduating from school, Nicholson moved to Los Angeles with the firm intention of breaking into the film business. He first worked as an errand boy for animation legends William Hanna and Joseph Barbera. Soon the studio paid attention to his artistic abilities and offered him a position as an assistant animator, but Jack, who aspired to become an actor, refused.
Caricature of H-B studio employees (Jack Nicholson on the right in the top row)
The path to cinema for Jack Nicholson was opened in 1958 by the director of the film “Crybaby Killer” Roger Cormen. Nicholson made his debut in the title role of a young criminal who begins to panic after killing teenagers.
1958: Jack Nicholson's first film role
Two years later, Nicholson got another role, also of an antisocial element, and again in a Corman film. Jack became the pervert from the movie Little Shop of Horrors who enjoyed toothache. Later, he took part in the filming of the film “Fear” and even sat in the director’s chair instead of Corman, although only for one day. He subsequently worked with Corman on The Crow (1963) and Valentine's Day Massacre (1967). In the second half of the 60s, he wrote two scripts for director Mante Hellman and starred in films based on them: “Fire to Kill” and “Escape to Nowhere” (1966).
Jack Nicholson in his youth
Today, seeing the most talented and already established actors in Hollywood, no one can even imagine that many of them have lives full of sorrows. And, despite the prevailing opinion that you can break into people only through influential connections or money, looking at world stars you are convinced of the opposite. Take, for example, American actor, director, producer and screenwriter Jack Nicholson. His life path was not at all easy, and yet, today he is not just a man with enormous talent, but also the winner of three Oscar awards.
Biography of Jack Nicholson
There is still no reliable information about the actor’s birth. Many sources indicate the date April 22, 1937. However, when the family baptized the boy in the Catholic Church, they told the priest that Jack was born in 1938.
The famous screenwriter's mother, June Nicholson, was a dancer. However, for the sake of her career, she gave the child to her parents to raise. Therefore, the boy grew up in complete ignorance of whose child he really was. He considered his grandparents to be his parents, and for him his real mother was instead of his own sister.
In 1945, at the age of eight, the boy had to walk seven blocks to school. However, this year he took part in a theatrical production for the first time. In high school, Jack, despite his varied hobbies, still played in various school plays. And he did it very well. It’s not for nothing that he was awarded the title “Best High School Actor.”
In 1974, one journalist conducted his investigation and found out the truth about the birth of a celebrity. Then the actor was already 37 years old. And he could not do anything with this bitter truth, because his mother and grandmother had died at that time.
Carier start
In 1956, young Jack Nicholson took part in the casting, where Pasternak himself approved the young man’s candidacy. Despite the complete lack of professional acting skills, the producer was hooked by the amazing smile and sly look of the aspiring actor. And it was this man who saw great potential in him and paved the way for world cinema.
Of course, at first there were minor roles and failed films. However, every year the actor’s skills improved, and his personality became more and more noticeable. Jack Nicholson has always played very complex and unusual characters. And the audience believed him, and believed so much that in 1975 the actor received his first Academy Award for Best Actor in the film “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.”
Screenwriter out of despair
These roles did not bring him fame, and in 1967 Nicholson decided that he would achieve greater success in the field of writing. That same year, he wrote the LSD-inspired script for the film Trip, starring Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper. Once he got the hang of it, he began writing the script together with Bob Rafelson. Their collaboration resulted in the musical “Head,” which starred members of The Monkees. In addition, Nicholson was involved in the selection of the soundtrack for the film.
Jack Nicholson, Dennis Hopper and Peter Fonda, 1969
Meeting Hopper and Fonda helped young Nicholson get into the cast of the film Easy Rider. It was due to simple luck: his character was originally written for Rip Torn, who turned down the role due to squabbles with the producer. The role of perpetually drunk lawyer George Hanson was Nicholson's first breakthrough and earned him his first Oscar nomination.
Jack Nicholson in the movie "Easy Rider"
The following year, the actor received another Oscar nomination for his role in the film Five Easy Pieces. That same year, he appeared in On a Clear Day You Can See Forever with Barbra Streisand, although he spent most of the film lying on the floor. "Five Easy Pieces" with Jack Nicholson. Excerpt Soon he tried to play the role of Michael Corleone in Francis Coppola's The Godfather, but was rejected.
In his youth, Jack Nicholson was a rowdy, alcoholic and drug addict
Behind the cheerful cynicism and imposing buffoonery of Jack's characters, one can see the inner honesty, which turns out to be wounded when reality gives bad surprises. This is exactly the Jack that viewers saw in Roman Polanski’s thriller “Chinatown,” released in 1974. Nicholson's character, a private detective, rude and completely devoid of sentimentality, brought the actor another nomination for an Academy Award. In 1975, two more well-known films with his participation were released: “Profession: Reporter” and “Tommy.”
Young Jack Nicholson in the film Chinatown
Without an ideal
Photo: Jack Nicholson and Anjelica Huston
He does not have a specific ideal of female beauty, so at different times he had affairs with completely different, in terms of both appearance and character, beauties from the acting and modeling environment. Among them are actress Susan Anspach (the couple met on the set of the film “Five Easy Pieces”), Danish model Winnie Hollman, known for her role in the film “Die Hard” Rebecca Broussard, and even director John Huston’s daughter Anjelica Huston. This relationship lasted 17 years; Angelica and Jack were in a civil marriage. However, for all his love of love, Nicholson was officially married only once.
Photo: Jack Nicholson and Meryl Steep
His stormy romance with actress Meryl Streep received the widest response. She was Jack Nicholson's co-star in the film Thistle. Meryl was so fascinated by Nicholson that even her marriage did not prevent her from starting a relationship with him. Of course, the couple in every possible way denied the fact of the affair. These relationships were based solely on intimacy, and, therefore, in the eyes of the public they looked especially vicious and frivolous.
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After a number of nominations, Jack was finally awarded his first Oscar. The award brought him the main role in the cult film adaptation of Ken Kesey's novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. According to critics of the time, in this picture Nicholson reached the highest point of artistic mastery. His hero is the hot-tempered Irishman R. P. McMurphy, who pretends to be mentally ill to avoid imprisonment.
Still from the film “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest”
After his great success, he began to choose more and more unusual roles - in “The Last Tycoon”, “Bend of Missouri” with Marlon Brando, “Heading South”. In 1980, he was cast in the lead role in Kubrick's The Shining, an adaptation of the novel of the same name by horror master Stephen King. Perhaps the unlucky writer Jack Torrance, slowly going crazy in the ominous Overlock Hotel, can be called his most characteristic and striking role.
Famous shot of Jack Nicholson from The Shining
Jack received another top acting award for his supporting role in the film “Terms of Endearment” (1983), playing the role of former astronaut and now avid alcoholic Garrett Breedlove.
Still from the film “Terms of Endearment”
In the 80s, the actor also appeared in the films “The Postman Always Rings Twice”, “The Honor of the Prizzi Family”, “Reds”, “The Witches of Eastwick”, “Thistle” - all these are recognized masterpieces of classic American cinema. The bar scene from the movie "The Shining" with Jack Nicholson. In 1989, the movie "Batman" with Nicholson's participation became a real hit at the box office. The role of the Joker brought the actor a fabulous $6 million. It was later planned that he would return to this character in the sequel, Batman Triumphant, but the project was cancelled.
One of Nicholson's best roles is the Joker from 1989's Batman
However, Jack Nicholson became the iconic Batman for many years. Neither Heath Ledger nor Jared Leto, who later played this mad genius, could embody his image as vividly as Nicholson did. Dance of the Joker He also received an Oscar nomination for his role as a hot-tempered colonel in the film A Few Good Men (1992). This is where his catchphrase “You can’t stand the truth!” comes from.
The 20th century ended for Nicholson with another Oscar. The third statuette was brought to him by his leading role in the film “It Can’t Be Better,” a sentimental comedy about an eccentric, unsociable man who again found his way to the hearts of others thanks to his dog.
“As good as it gets”: Jack Nicholson and the dog
However, Nicholson’s work was also celebrated with anti-prizes. The actor was nominated for the Golden Raspberry twice: for his roles in the films Hoffa and Human Trouble.
Jack Nicholson's Rules of Life
I always wear sunglasses because they were prescribed to me. Once upon a time, the average American in me thought there was a certain amount of affectation in this. But in southern California the sun is very bright. Also, if you know the downsides of living in public, you begin to recognize the need for protection. I’m accustomed to looking people in the eyes, but I can’t look into the eyes of everyone who wants to look into mine: I simply don’t have the mental strength to do that.
I hate advice - everyone except my own.
I hate giving advice because people don't listen anyway.
I love conversations. I am always ready to change my mind, if only they will convince me. I’m probably the only liberal who has read “Betrayal” by Ann Coulter (a bestseller by a conservative journalist who is an ardent opponent of the Democrats. - Esquire). I want to know, you know? I like to listen to others. This is the true elixir of life for me.
It seems to me that few people truly understand what rest is and how important it is to rest properly. Nowadays people compete with each other for recreation, as if it needs to have some extra value to fit into our puritanical view of the world. But if you play golf to negotiate a loan, it's not golf, right?
I was very pleased with my Joker (role in the film “Batman.” - Esquire). I look at it as a piece of pop art.
The camera films what is in front of it.
After September 11, I kept quiet. All possible positions were voiced: for, against, good, evil... I had nothing to add. And I thought: now is the time for the clowns to intervene. See what I mean? That's why I spent several years doing comedy.
I'm embarrassed to admit, but I only read sports pages.
I have always considered basketball to be the best sport
In my opinion , those born after the war are alien to the idea of personal responsibility. This strikes me as a tiny but important generational difference that explains a lot. People are disappointed. They do not want to take responsibility for their own failures, preferring to say: “I am like this, and this is the reason” or “This happened to me, and this is the reason.” Everyone strives to blame everything on someone or something.
I learned a lot in life as a boy playing games of chance on the beach.
Lately I have been attaching less and less importance to what actors usually call “character creation.” All these limps and lisps, manner of speaking... I don’t want to bother with them. It must come from within. The main thing is who you are. This is what you need to work on. I approach any role autobiographically.
Today I spoke on the phone with Sean Penn. It seemed interesting to me that I was not among the actors who supported the Stanislavsky method, a list of which was recently published in an article, and I told him about it. And he added: “I still manage to fool them!” I consider this an achievement. Because, in my opinion, there is almost no one in the acting world who understands Stanislavsky’s method better and is more guided by it in his work than I am. It's strange that no one notices this. This is probably because reality and ideas about it often diverge.
Why not take all the achievements of the modern mind and apply them to the street movement?
Believe it or not, in the case of the President's right to confidentiality (in 1974, the US Supreme Court denied President Nixon the right to confidentiality of conversations with staff members directly related to the Watergate scandal. - Esquire) I sided with Richard Nixon. Imagine yourself in the place of the president - would you really want to make your every word and every action public? In my opinion, this is just stupid. No one should be deprived of their right to privacy. Do this and one thing will lead to another, and in the end we will get Bill and Monica. You need to look at life soberly. People are people, and you shouldn't demand too much from them.
My motto: live with pleasure.
Of course, I'm not as cool as they think I am. Not a fighter, and so on. If anything, I'd better go home.
Children give your life a fullness that would be impossible without them.
Indeed , until I was thirty-seven, I did not know that my sister was actually my mother. But I realized a long time ago that there are a lot of things in the world that I don’t know about. If I attach too much importance to what I don't know, nothing good will come of it. Focus on the positive - that's my opinion. It's a trick, but a useful one.
Another old acting rule: it's easy to go down, so always reach up.
Men dominate due to their physical strength, and therefore they are capable of compassion where a woman will not show it.
For a woman , if it's over, it's over. Their verdict cannot be appealed.
now a tacit agreement in our country that the white male is the only legitimate target for any criticism. And we mostly put up with this.
Many middle-aged people secretly wish there was more romance in their lives.
I don’t know if this statistic is true, but I heard somewhere that there are now three times more single women over forty than single men. This is what the women's movement led to. The chickens scattered to their coops.
I am very sensitive to the rules of good manners. How to pass a plate. Don't shout from one room to another. Do not open a closed door without knocking. Let the lady go first. The purpose of all these countless simple rules is to make life better. We cannot live in a state of chronic war with our parents - this is stupid. I take great care of my manners. This is not some kind of abstraction. This is a language of mutual respect that everyone understands.
I have grown from that age when one speaks with aplomb about what one does not know.
If I were to list the major milestones of my life over the past ten years or more, quite a lot of events related to children would be included in this list. You know how it happens: they write a sketch or a poem, and a lump comes to your throat. They give such amazing love. Lauren won the soccer tournament. Ray becomes a big guy. Jennifer has her own boutique - it’s called “Pearl”. She is also a clothing designer. I must admit that at her fashion show I did not spare smiles and handshakes - when I present my own paintings, I do not try that way. What lengths will you go to for your children?
Don’t feed the fan bread - let him come up with your own theory.
It seems to me that the Greeks invented sport as opposed to philosophy. There are absolute rules in sports. There is no room for doubt: either the ball is in the field or out. Either the ten yards are covered or it is not. Either you hit the basket or you miss. Everything is clear there!
generally a liberal Democrat, but I don't hate Bush as much as other Democrats. I remember World War II. We turned off the lights in the house, as if we could be attacked from the beach. How else could we behave in the atmosphere of that time? We had no choice. And now he's gone too. I don't know what else Bush could have done. We're just going with the flow.
My daughter is thirteen. Lately all I've been thinking is: “Couldn't you get yourself some pants like this so you don't have to walk down the streets with a bare belly button?”
What am I good at as a father? I'm nearby all the time. My love doesn't require anything. And I know how to help children express themselves. I have a lot of advice - if they are willing to tell me what their difficulties are - because I myself have had many difficulties in my life. I try to show them the world without embellishment. I want to instill in them a deep inner conviction that it is normal to be happy, that you don’t need to constantly create problems for yourself that you really don’t have.
I resist all conventional beliefs. My religion is about being spontaneous, living in the present. It's an old cliché, I know, but it's mine.
I envy the believers. I myself am incapable of believing in anything supernatural. At least for now. It's not that I didn't want it. That is, I want to believe. I even pray. I pray to something... higher. I have a sense of God. In my opinion, there is more superstition in him than religiosity. It seems to me that this is a property of human nature.
Do unto others as you would have them do unto you: if you think about it, what else do we want from religion?
I will never dare to scold those who consider abortion to be murder. I myself am illegitimate. I might not be here now.
There are many big lies in the world, but no one wants to discuss them.
A question that an actor often asks himself is: where would you go if you weren't limited by the confines of this episode?
For a long time I was afraid to be alone. I had to get used to being alone. I still sometimes think: oh-oh-oh, I need to talk to someone, otherwise I’ll go crazy! But now I like being alone. Honestly. Loneliness is a great luxury.
My attitude towards golf was influenced by a plaque in Japan, on the wall of a Buddhist temple in Kyoto. It is dedicated to the archery competitions that were held there. Imagine: such a long colonnade. At the end is a four by four inch square. Participants sat cross-legged on the floor and had to shoot arrows without them touching the walls. The world record was something like 180 straight shots in a row. I treat sports like poetry, and it made a big impression on me. From then on, I began to think of golf as a Buddhist shooting competition.
I don't play golf for competition. I tell everyone that I cheat so that they don’t play with me for money. This is what makes it difficult to watch football. Everyone is placing bets. People don't want to follow the game: they follow the bookmakers' forecasts.
I'm becoming a grouch, it's true. Nobody screams and screams more than me. But the hardest days are when I come home and suddenly realize: “Damn it! They were right! Well, what a cretin I am!” And this happens at least once or twice in every picture, when you... you're so confident in yourself, you're such an important bird, you know what I mean? And then you come home and discover that you are a cretin.
Professional acting is a very difficult business. You come to the editing studio, look at the results of your efforts and understand: no matter how much you are praised, a good half of what you do is outright crap.
I love working with female directors. They don't mind making you charming.
I'm very lucky in the sense that, apart from all the cohabitations and the like, I've always gotten along great with women.
I often ask myself a theoretical question: if I started today, would I end up making porn films to make a living?
The less people know about me, the easier it is for me to work.
Try to avoid platitudes about public issues when talking to a reporter.
Try to avoid reporters.
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In 2002, the actor played in the film “About Schmidt.”
This time his hero is a retired insurance company employee who is tormented by questions about his life. The image contrasted strongly with the “explosive” heroes of his past paintings. And in the comedy “Anger Management,” the actor got an aggressive psychiatrist who was assigned to Adam Sandler’s character to teach him how to manage his own emotions. In 2003, Nicholson played an elderly playboy in the film “No Rules of Love.” The character is seriously interested in his girlfriend's mother.
Jack Nicholson and Adam Sandler in the movie "Anger Management"
In 2006, Jack returned to the “dark side” and played a sadistic Irish mafioso in the Oscar-winning film “The Departed” with Leonardo DiCaprio and Matt Damon (a remake of “Devil's Deeds”).
Still from the film “The Departed”
The actor's last role was supposed to be a man dying of cancer ("Until I played in the box", 2007), who, together with his neighbor in a hospital bed (Morgan Freeman), fulfills a list of his wishes. To play more authentically, the actor visited a cancer hospital in Los Angeles to see how people were struggling with a fatal disease.
In 2007, Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman played in the same film
However, in 2010, the actor starred in the melodrama “Who Knows” with Reese Witherspoon. The film failed at the box office.
Personal life of Jack Nicholson
Jack Nicholson himself claims to have slept with two or more thousand women. But he was married only once - to actress Sandra Knight, with whom he starred in the film Fear. In 1963, she gave birth to the actor's daughter, Jennifer. The marriage lasted 6 years: from 1962 to 1968.
Jack Nicholson and Sandra Knight in the movie Fear
The actor also has a daughter, Honey (born 1981) - a memory of his relationship with the Danish fashion model Winnie Hollman, a son, Caleb (born in 1970), from actress Susan Enspach, as well as a daughter, Lorraine (born in 1990) and son Ray (born 1992) with his ex-girlfriend Rebecca Broussard,
In the photo: Jack Nicholson and his youngest son Ray
First and only wife - Sandra Knight
From 1962 to 1968, he was married to Sandra Knight, who entered Jack Nicholson's personal life during the filming of The Terror. Even though this marriage was short-lived, it still remains the only one for the actor. In addition, he had a daughter named Jennifer.
Still from the film "The Terror"
“I’m very young and I can’t promise that I won’t touch another woman,” Nicholson mentally said to God during the wedding ceremony.
And he didn't lie. Subsequently, the actor gained fame as a womanizer who would not miss a single skirt.
Jack Nicholson now
In January 2013, the actor's close friend Peter Fonda told the press that Jack Nicholson was retiring. It turned out that this is due to progressive memory loss - due to the illness, the actor is simply unable to remember the characters’ lines. He had to turn down a role in the film Nebraska, where, ironically, he was supposed to play a character with Alzheimer's. 2020: what Jack Nicholson looks like now And yet, Nicholson is enjoying life in “retirement.” He still breathes unevenly towards the opposite sex and does not shy away from carnal pleasures.
Jack Nicholson on vacation
Jack Nicholson: personal life
Jack Nicholson has always been popular with women; the most beautiful actresses and models of our time have been among his lovers. Despite this, Jack was married only once in his life. The lucky one was actress Sandra Knight, who gave Nicholson a daughter, Jennifer, during five years of marriage. However, on August 8, 1968, the couple divorced.
After the divorce, the actor never entered into an official marriage again, while constantly having either long-term or short-term romances. He is credited with romantic relationships with such Hollywood stars as Michelle Pfeiffer and Meryl Streep. Nicholson's longest relationship was his seventeen-year civil marriage with actress Anjelica Huston.
In addition to his daughter Jennifer, Nicholson has four other children from three different women: Caleb Goddard, Hannie Holman, Lorraine and Raymond Nicholson.
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