Marcello Mastroianni

He also had a daughter, Chiara Mastroianni, with his longtime mistress, the actress Catherine Deneuve; both were at his bedside when he died of pancreatic cancer. When he is at a televised Lakers game, he is invariably sought out for celebrity camera shots during one or more breaks in the game. Mastroianni was married to the Italian actress Flora Carabella (1926-1999), who appeared in many films including "Lunatics and Lovers" and "A Night Full of Rain", from 1948 until his death; they had one child, Barbara. Nicholson is also a well-known and highly visible fan of the NBA's Los Angeles Lakers; he has courtside seats, and attends whenever his schedule allows. He followed that with another signature role, that of a frustrated, womanizing film director in Fellini's 8˝. His most recent film is the 2003 Something's Gotta Give. He soon became a major international romantic star, starring in Big Deal on Madonna Street; and especially when Federico Fellini cast him in La Dolce Vita with Anita Ekberg in 1960. In the comedy Anger Management, he plays an aggressive therapist alongside Adam Sandler.

His film debut was in I Miserabili (from Victor Hugo's Les Misérables) in 1947. The deeply emotional, slow film stands in sharp contrast to many of his previous roles. In 1945 he started working for a film company, and began taking acting lessons. In About Schmidt (2002), Nicholson portrayed a man who questions his own life after his retirement and the death of his wife. During World War II he was interned in a Nazi prison, but he escaped and hid in Venice. The September 11, 2001 attacks led Nicholson to focus on comedies. Born in Fontana Liri, a small village in the Apennines, Mastroianni grew up in Turin and Rome. He would win his next Oscar for his role as the neurotic lead in the romance As Good As It Gets (1997).

Marcello Vincenzo Domenico Mastroianni (September 28, 1924 – December 19, 1996) was an Italian film actor. Jessep in A Few Good Men (1992), a dark movie about a murder in a military unit, he received yet another nomination by the Academy. 1963 - Best Actor - Divorce, Italian Style. Nathan R. 1978 - Best Actor - A Special Day. For his role as Col. 1988 - Best Actor - Dark Eyes. The 1989 Batman, where Nicholson played the supervillain The Joker, was an international smash hit, and a lucrative percentage deal earned Nicholson about US$50 million [1] (http://www.filmaction.com/hollywood%20eh.htm).

Nicholson won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in Terms of Endearment (1984). Other early movies he is known for include Roman Polanski's Chinatown (1974), Milos Forman's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975), for which he received his first Oscar, and Stanley Kubrick's The Shining. A Best Actor nomination came the following year for his persona-defining role in Five Easy Pieces (1970), which includes his famous chicken salad dialogue about getting what you want. That film led to a small supporting role in Easy Rider (1969), for which he received his first Oscar nomination.

His work with Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper on the LSD-fueled The Trip led to his real break. This included his screen debut in The Cry Baby Killer (1958), where he played a juvenile delinquent who panics after shooting two other teenagers, and Little Shop of Horrors. Nicholson started his career as an actor, writer, and producer, working for and with Roger Corman. My only emotion is gratitude, literally, for my life.".

I don't have the right to any other view. Because of this fact Nicholson is pro-life and has spoken out about it saying, "I'm very contra my constituency in terms of abortion because I'm positively against it. She did this because he was actually the illegitimate offspring of her daughter, a woman whom Nicholson thought was his older sister. A journalist's research uncovered what apparently had happened: the woman he had always thought of as his mother was actually his grandmother, who had arranged to raise him as her own child.

He was born John Joseph Nicholson in New York, New York, although until 1974 he had thought his place of birth was his hometown, Neptune, New Jersey. He has also won seven Golden Globe Awards. He received Kennedy Center Honors in 2001, and has been nominated for an Academy Award a dozen times, winning three of them. He is best known for portraying antagonistic, cynical, neurotic and aggressive characters.

Jack Nicholson (born April 22, 1937) is a highly successful American method actor.