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Nick Nolte

From the press kit for Northfork:
Nick Nolte has assembled an impressively diverse list of credits including such films as Paul Schrader’s Affliction, for which he received an Academy Award® nomination and won the New York Critics Award for Best Actor, Martin Scorsese’s Cape Fear and Barbara Streisand’s The Prince of Tides, for which he received an Oscar nomination for Best Actor and won the Golden Globe Award as Best Actor from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association.

After his performance in the landmark television series “Rich Man, Poor Man” won him intertnational fame, Nolte became known early in his career for his diversity of character in such films as Who’ll Stop the Rain, North Dallas Forty, Heart Beat, Cannery Row, Down and Out in Beverly Hills, 48 Hours, Under Fire, The Golden Bowl and Jefferson in Paris. His many credits include I Love Trouble,  Blue Chips, I’ll Do Anything, Lorenzo’s Oil, Extreme Prejudice, Three Fugitives, Farewell to the King, Martin Scorsese’s segment of New York Stories, Everybody Wins and Sidney Lumet’s Q&A.  Among more recent credits are Mother Night, Nightwatch, Afterglow, U Turn, The Thin Red Line, Breakfast of Champions, Simpatico, The Best of Enemies, Trixie, White Jazz and Investigating Sex.  He was most recently seen in Neil Jordan’s The Good Thief and Ang Lee’s The Hulk.

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Awards & Recognitions

1999

Nominated for Academy Award™ for Best Actor in a Leading Role for Affliction

Nominated for Golden Globe for Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama for Affliction

Nominated for Chicago Film Critics Association award for Best Supporting Actor for The Thin Red Line

Won National Society of Film Critic award for Best Actor for Affliction

Won Screen Actor's Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role for Affliction

1998

Won New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor for Affliction

1992

Nominated for Academy Award™ for Best Actor in a Leading Role for The Prince of Tides

Named "Sexiest Man Alive" by People magazine

Won Golden Globe for Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama for The Prince of Tides

1991

Won Boston Society of Film Critics award for Best Actor for The Prince of Tides

Won Los Angeles Film Critics Association award for Best Actor for The Prince of Tides

1988

Nominated for Golden Globe for Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama for Weeds

1977

Nominated for Golden Globe for Best TV Actor - Drama for Rich Man, Poor Man

1976

Nominated for Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series - Rich Man, Poor Man

Born:
February 8, 1941
Omaha

Birth Name:
Nicholas King Nolte

Parents: Frank and Helen Nolte

Sister: Nancy

Spouses:

Rebecca Linger
1984 - 1992 (divorced)
Son:
Brawley Nolte (born 1986)

Sharyn Haddad (divorced)
1978 - 1983

Sheila Page (divorced)
1966 - 1970

Breakthrough Role:
Tom Jordache in Rich Man, Poor Man

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