Jack Nicholson was born on April 22, 1937 in Manhattan. The path to cinema was opened to him in 1958 by the director of the film \u201cCrybaby Killer\u201d Roger Corman. Nicholson made his debut in the title role of a young criminal who begins to panic after killing teenagers.<\/p>\n
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Nicholson holds the record for the most Oscar nominations – 12 times, three of which resulted in victory. The actor also received the British Academy of Film and Television Arts award three times, won the Golden Globe Award seven times, and received the US National Board of Film Critics award six times. He also won the Screen Actors Guild Award six times.<\/p>\n
In 1994, Nicholson was awarded the American Film Institute’s Lifetime Achievement Award.\u00a0Jack Nicholson was married only once – to actress Sandra Knight. In this marriage they had a daughter, Jennifer Nicholson. Jack and Sandra married in 1962, but the couple officially divorced six years later.<\/p>\n
In 1975, a film adaptation of the cult American novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest was released. According to the plot, criminal Randle Patrick McMurphy ends up in a psychiatric clinic for examination. A man feigns insanity to avoid going to jail. It soon turns out that the patients at the psychiatric clinic are not so crazy after all.<\/p>\n
In the film, Jack Nicholson plays the main role. The film was called a real breakthrough in the actor\u2019s creative biography. The role in the film brought Nicholson his first Oscar statuette as the best actor of the year.<\/p>\n