Who is Jack Nicholson?
Jack Nicholson is a legendary American actor whose career spans nearly 50 years to date. Nicholson has played a variety of memorable roles in his amazingly long and successful career ranging from Jack Torrance in The Shining to Melvin Udall, the intriguing and brash leading man suffering from obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) in As Good as it Gets. He is quickly recognized for the notorious line “You can’t handle the truth!” from the 1992 film A Few Good Men and for his villainous role as Batman’s life-long adversary, The Joker. Born John Joseph Nicholson 22 April, 1937 in New York, New York, Jack Nicholson holds a record 12 Academy Award nominations with 3 wins, more than any other male actor to date. His iconic Hollywood career began in 1958 with his screen debut in The Cry Baby Killers. Jack Nicholson’s first Academy Award nomination didn’t come until 1970 for his role in Easy Rider and his first win was in 1975 for One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. Throughout the 1980s and 1990s,
