This block contains the information about Jack Nicholson and provides an insight into the life of the celebrity. From here you can also learn when, how and why the profession of an actor was chosen. Some interesting facts are waiting for you here.

Jack Nicholson was born in New Jersey, his mother was a dancer and six months before giving birth to Jack she got married with an Italian dancer. Who is considered to be his biological father. At first he was getting small and non significant roles till 1969, when he got the role of a lawyer that was the time when he felt the taste of real success and fame. Seventies were considered as his golden years, as after he got the recognition of public he started choosing the roles more careful. In 1980 he got the ward of American Academy of cinema for the movie “The Shining” by Stephen King. In 1981 he played in such movies as “The Red ones”, “The Postman Always Rings Twice”. His second Oscar he got for the role of Gareth Breedlove in “Terms of Endearment” which got the second place due to the cash earned from it. Also he got an Oscar award for “The honor of Prizzi”. In 1989 he played the role of Joker in the “Batman” movie, and it was a very successful role as well. For playing in this movie he earned sixty million of dollars. Also he was nominated for an Oscar for playing in “A few good Guys” and “About Schmidt”. The third Oscar he got for playing in “It cannot be better”.

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Here you can learn about the movies Jack Nicholson acted in. You can see the names of the movies, their budget, years of release and the money gained from the screening of the certain movie. It is always interesting to know.

Movies & Videos	Budget	Year	Opening weekend	US box Office
How Do You Know - Charles	$120M	2010	$7.48M	$30.2M
The Departed - Frank Costello, Soundtrack (performer: "Mother Machree")	$90M	2006	$26.9M	$132M
Anger Management - Dr. Buddy Rydell, Soundtrack (performer: "I Feel Pretty")	$75M	2003	$42.2M	$134M
Wolf - Will Randall	$70M	1994		$65M
Mars Attacks! - President James Dale/Art Land	$70M	1996	$9.38M	$37.8M
As Good as It Gets - Melvin Udall	$50M	1997	$12.6M	$148M
The Pledge - Jerry Black	$45M	2001	$5.77M	$19.7M
The Bucket List - Edward	$45M	2007	$162K	$93.5M
A Few Good Men - Col. Nathan R. Jessep	$40M	1992		$141M
Batman - Joker/Jack Napier	$35M	1989		$251M
Hoffa - James R. 'Jimmy' Hoffa	$35M	1992		$24.3M
Reds - Eugene O'Neill	$35M	1981
Man Trouble - Eugene Earl Axline, aka Harry Bliss	$30M	1992		$4.1M
About Schmidt - Warren Schmidt	$30M	2002	$282K	$65M
Ironweed - Francis Phelan	$27M	1987		$7.39M
The Border - Charlie Smith	$22M	1982
Blood and Wine - Alex Gates	$22M	1996	$421K	$1.08M
The Shining - Jack Torrance	$22M	1980
Broadcast News - Bill Rorich	$20M	1987		$51.2M
The Two Jakes - J.J. 'Jake' Gittes, Producer (uncredited), Director	$19M	1990		$10M