The Legendary American Actor

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The Legendary American Actor Who of Hollywood actors has an incredible charisma? Obviously, asking such a question, you can hardly hear a definite answer. But the name of at least one actor can be heard very often, much more often than others. This name is Jack Nicholson. John Joseph Nicholson was born on April 22, 1937 in a small town Netun, New Jersey. He grew up without a father, in his upbringing were engaged grandparents. Jack’s thirst for acting was revealed by his classmates. The very first episode, with which is associated the birth of an actor, was a manifestation of protest. It happened in school, in the fourth form, a teacher for some offence stood him in a corner next to the board, and there and then Nicholson smeared his face with chalk and became a clown. "So I stayed such a class clown over all of the school years." At the beginning of Nicholson's career, as he was a young boy, he was ready to do any work on the "factory of dreams", and very few would dare to predict that he will become one of the movie-legends: ten years Nicholson starred in the low-budget films, a lot of which were directed by Roger Corman. But in 1969 thirty-two-year-old actor attracted the attention of Hollywood in the Dennis Hopper's film "Easy Rider", which became one of the landmarks of film era of the '60s. His first Oscar Jack Nicholson won for amazingly performed role of Randy Patrick McMurphy in Milos Forman's film "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest". This was the first, but not the last Oscar in his life. However, this award raised him to the rank of Hollywood superstars. Among the roles in the 80s is to highlight the work of Stanley Kubrick's screen version of Stephen King's novel "The Shining". At the end of the1989, Tim Burton filmed the Batman comics. The movie became an absolute hit, thanks largely to Jack Nicholson, who created

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