PROFESSION: HOLLYWOOD ACTOR

Col. Jessep: “You want answers?”

Kaffee: “I think I’m entitled to.”

Col. Jessep: “You want answers?”

Kaffee: “I want the truth!”

Col. Jessep: “You can’t handle the truth!”

And thus follows the famous rant and a brilliant performance by Jack Nicholson that gives you Goosebumps every time you watch it in the movie A Few Good Men.

John Joseph “Jack” Nicholson is an American actor, producer, writer and film director. He was born in New Jersey on April 22, 1937. In a long and prosperous career, Jack Nicholson has portrayed challenging and unique roles, and Oscar winning performances many of which include dark portrayals of psychopathic and neurotic characters. The 12 Oscar nominations in his career until now has made him the most nominated actor in the history of Academy Awards.

Nicholson has won the Academy Award for Best Actor twice, once for One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest and the other for As Good as It Gets. His breathtaking performance in the 1983 film Terms of Endearment won him the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. Only two other actors, Walter Brennan and Daniel Day-Lewis, have won the same number of Academy Awards as Jack Nicholson i.e. three. Amongst his other notable performances are his roles such as Frank Costello in The Departed, Jack Torrance in The Shining and the Joker in 1989′s Batman. Along with three Oscars, he has also won six Golden Globe Awards and received the Kennedy Center Honor in 2001. In 1994, he became the youngest actor ever to have been awarded the American Film Institute’s Life Achievement Award. Notable films in which he has starred include Five Easy Pieces, Easy Rider, A Few Good Men, The Last Detail, Chinatown, The Passenger, The Shining, Reds, Wolf, The Pledge, About Schmidt, and The Departed.

Nicholson is one of the only two actors who have been nominated for an Academy Award in acting every decade from the 1960s to 2000s. The other actor was Michael Cane.

EARNINGS AND NET WORTH

Jack Nicholson is not only one of the most brilliant actors to have graced the American cinema but he is also one of the richest. Various sources state that Jack Nicholson ranks 10^th amongst the richest Oscar winners with a whopping net worth of $ 400 million. Below are his earnings from the movies he has done from 1970 – Present. (Note: this data is limited by internet sources).

Apart from movie earnings his assets also comprise a large part of his net worth. For instance, his bungalow in Mulholland Drive Beverly Hills previously owned by Marlon Brando was valued at $ 6,100,000. The estimated value of Jack Nicholson’s art collection is $ 100,000,000 which includes the works of Matisse, Warhol, Tamara de Lempicka and Picasso. He also put up his Malibu property for sale which is valued at $ 4,250,000. And the value of his Newberry house in Aspen which is currently on the market is estimated at $ 15,000,000. These properties surely make him one of the richest movie actors alive.

PERSONAL LIFE

Nicholson was married only once in his entire lifetime for a brief period of 6 years from 1962-1968. He had two kids from the marriage a son and a daughter. He dated Michelle Phillips in the early 1970s. Between 1973 and 1990, Nicholson had a high-profile but sporadic relationship with actress Anjelica Huston that included periods of overlap with other women, including Danish model Winnie Hollman. From 1989 to 1994 was dating actress Rebecca Broussard; they had two children together: daughter Lorraine and son Raymond.

Like all celebrities Nicholson has had his fare share of controversies. In 1994, he was accused of accused of vandalism and criminal charges were filed against him by Robert Blank. After accusing blank of cutting him off in traffic, Nicholson used his golf club to bash the windshield and roof of Blank’s car. The charges against Nicholson were dropped after he apologized to Blank and an undisclosed settlement was reached between the two which also included a $ 500,000 check from Nicholson.

This incident wasn’t the last time Nicholson’s temper made the news.  Nicholson is a fan of the Los Angeles and New York Yankees . He has held a Laker season ticket since 1970 and has held court side season tickets for the past 25 years next to the opponent’s benches at both The Forum and the Staples Center.. A known legendary fan of the Los Angeles Lakers professional basketball team, he has been threatened more than once with ejection for yelling at the referees and losing his temper at them.

Nicholson certainly had a long and prosperous career. He is without doubt regarded as one of the most talented actors ever the world of cinema has seen. And he continues to dazzle everyone with his performances. In November 2013, there were reports that Nicholson is going to retire from acting because of problems relating to memory but hours later the reports were dismissed.

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Profession: Actor, Director, Producer

They say big things come in short packages. This hold perfectly true for actor turned director Danny Devito who has delivered a number of performances in his lifetime that more than memorable to this fans and the audience across the world. Be it L.A. Confidential or Batman Returns, this man is still fondly remembered for all his roles. He graduated from the American Academy of Dramatic Arts (AADA) in Hollywood, California in the year 1966.

Life before acting

Did you know that the Penguin that we know from Batman was a qualified hairdresser/ stylist before he became an actor? In his New Jersey hometown, one of his relatives ran a hair salon with the relatives of another actor from his neighborhood, Jack Nicholson. Following graduation in 1962, he took a job as a cosmetician at his sister’s beauty salon. A year later, he enrolled at New York’s American Academy of Dramatic Arts so he could learn more about cosmetology. While at the academy, he fell in love with acting and decided to further pursue an acting career.

Foray into acting

In 1968, Danny landed his first part in a movie when he appeared as a thug in the obscure Dreams of Glass.Daniel Michael DeVito, as he is less popularly knows, got his first cut off a Broadway show and became quite the name when the movie One Flow Over the Cukoo’s Nest hit the screens. Soon after this came Taxi, the TV show that made him famous among the masses, earning him the much needed recognition. This fame earned him a ticket to many roles in movies such as Terms of Endearment, Romancing the Stone, The Jewel of the Nile and Throw Momma from the Train.

Producing and directing motion pictures

His interest for direction took wings when he re-united with his co-starts, Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner from Romancing the Stone and directed The War of the Roses. And then there was no turning back, as this Italian American from New Jersey, went onto direct and produce some of the greatest movies of all times, including, Pulp Fiction, Get Shorty, Erin Brockovich and Garden State.

Soon after he started working and directing TV show and became a voice-over artist appearing shows like The Simpsons.

He was inducted into the 2010 New Jersey Hall of Fame for his services and contributions to Arts and Entertainment and also, he  was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6906 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California on August 18, 2011.

The investments

The perks of being one of the richest people in the cinema industry is probably the hefty paycheck. With that kind of money Danny DeVito seems to have made some smart choices when it comes to investing his hard earned money, be it restaurants or production houses or mansions. He is the co-owner of a restaurant called DeVito South Beach in Miami, Florida. He and his wife opened their own production company, Jersey Films, with the first movie Hoffa getting released in 1992 and later on went on to produce even world movies such as Freedom Writers.

He has got sprawling mansions located all over. Although he currently lives in Maibu, California with his wife and kids, he has got a beautiful vacation home in Interlakan, New Jersey. He has also got a house in New Canaan, Connecticut, with a part of his family living there. Along with all this he has also got another house in Los Angeles along with the one in Beverly Hills.

With all this houses and business ventures running about, one might wonder what must be his paycheck. Well, we have got it right here:

DeVito earns about $943,600 almost every month which accounts to a whopping $11, 323, 000 of annual income.

His directorial hit Matilda released in the year 1996 earned him around $5,000,000. That should give a pretty clear picture of his earnings for all the hits that he has garnered over the years.

With all that said, this great De Palma drives around in a Nissan Leaf 100% electric car, spreading the message of Go Green.

Personal Life

Danny DeVito first met actress Rhea Perlman when she went to see him appearing in the off-Broadway play ‘the Shrinking Bride’ in 1971. That sure was love in the air as they moved in together right after two weeks and the couple got married in the year 1982. Although the couple had their share of ups and downs when they got separated for a brief period after 40 years of marriage, they reconciled soon after. The couple has three kids, two daughters and a son.

Throughout their relationship, Perlman and DeVito have acted alongside each other several times, including in the TV show Taxi and the feature film Matilda.

DeVito is known to be a staunch supporter of vegetarianism and is also a huge animal lover. He practically endorses the concept of vegetarianism as he was once seen tweeting to all his followers on Twitter to watch Forks Over Knives, which is a health documentary that advocates for plant-based diets. He and his wife are members of the steering committee of the Friends of the Apollo.

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