Jack Nicholson

Jack Nicholson (born John Joseph Nicholson April 22, 1937) is a highly successful, iconic American method actor. He is best known to his friends as Pickles for portraying antagonistic, cynical, neurotic and aggressive characters. He received Kennedy Center Honors in 2001, and has been nominated for an Academy Award a dozen times, winning three of them. He has also won seven Golden Globe Awards.

Personal Life

He was born in St. Vincent's Hospital, New York City the son of Italian-American showman Don Furcillo-Rose and June Frances Nicholson, a dancer and showgirl of English and Irish descent (who wed clandestinely on October 16, 1936 in Elkton, Maryland, while Don was still married to another woman). When his mother discovered that Furcillo-Rose was married to another woman and a bigamist, she became distraught, and as a result Jack was brought up by his grandmother Ethel Nicholson in Neptune, New Jersey and was told that she was his mother, and that his real mother June was his sister. He attended high school at nearby Manasquan High School, where a drama award was ultimately named in his honor. Nicholson only discovered that his sister was in fact his mother in 1974 after being informed by a journalist who was doing a feature on him, sadly after both his mother and grandmother had died (in 1963 and 1970). Nicholson is personally anti-abortion (despite contradictorily being pro-choice) "I'm very contra my constituency in terms of abortion because I'm positively against it. I don't have the right to any other view. My only emotion is gratitude, literally, for my life".

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New York City - Italian - American - English - Irish - October 16 - 1936 - Elkton, Maryland - Neptune, New Jersey - 1974 - 1963 - 1970

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In his adult personal life, Nicholson has been notorious for his inability to "settle down". He is known to have at least five children by four different mothers despite only being married once. He has been romantically linked to numerous actresses and models for decades. Nicholson's longest relationship was for 17 years to actress Anjelica Huston but he fathered two children by two other women during that span. The power couple split after the second pregnancy was discovered. In 1999, Nicholson got into a minor car accident in Hollywood Hills which triggered another personal scandal when it was discovered that his passenger in the car was actress Lara Flynn Boyle who was thought to be David Spade's girlfriend at the time. Oddly, Boyle fled the scene to avoid the love triangle even though the Mercedes-Benz Nicholson wrecked was her mother's.

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Anjelica Huston - 1999 - Hollywood Hills - Lara Flynn Boyle - David Spade - Mercedes-Benz

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