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: 7 He was raised in his mother's Roman Catholic Church. I was pretty well psychologically formed". On finding out, Nicholson said it was "a pretty dramatic event, but it wasn't what I'd call traumatizing. By this time, both his mother and grandmother had died (in 19, respectively). In 1974, Time magazine researchers learned, and informed Nicholson, that his "sister", June, was actually his mother, and his other "sister", Lorraine, was really his aunt. As June was only 17 and unmarried, her parents agreed to raise Nicholson as their own child without revealing his true parentage, with June acting as his sister. Other sources suggest June Nicholson was unsure of the father's identity. Kirschfeld), June's manager, may have been Nicholson's biological father, rather than Furcillo. : 8 Biographer Patrick McGilligan stated in his book Jack's Life that Latvian-born Eddie King (originally Edgar A. but I am a writer, I am Irish, I have had problems with my family." His mother married Italian-American showman Donald Furcillo (stage name Donald Rose 1909–1997) in 1936, before realizing that he was already married. Nicholson has identified as Irish, comparing himself to the playwright Eugene O'Neill, whom he played in the film Reds: "I'm not saying I'm as dark as he was.

Nicholson's mother was of Irish, English, German, and Welsh descent. John Joseph Nicholson was born on April 22, 1937, in Neptune City, New Jersey, the son of a showgirl, June Frances Nicholson (stage name June Nilson 1918–1963).

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In 1994, he became one of the youngest actors to receive the American Film Institute's Life Achievement Award. He has won six Golden Globe Awards and received the Kennedy Center Honor in 2001. He is one of only three male actors to win three Academy Awards, and one of only two actors to be nominated for an Academy Award for acting in films made in every decade from the 1960s to the 2000s. He has won the Academy Award for Best Actor twice, once for One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) and once for As Good as It Gets (1997) he also won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for Terms of Endearment (1983). His twelve Academy Award nominations make Nicholson the most nominated male actor in the Academy's history. He has also directed three films, including The Two Jakes (1990), a sequel to Chinatown. His most known and celebrated films include Chinatown (1974), One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975), The Shining (1980), and The Departed (2006). He received numerous accolades throughout his career which spanned over five decades, including three Academy Awards. In many of his films, he played rebels against the social structure.

He is widely regarded as one of the greatest actors of all time. John Joseph Nicholson (born April 22, 1937) is a retired American actor and filmmaker.