

This increased his total earnings to an estimated $60 million, although his 2013 biographer Marc Eliot claimed that the number was closer to $90 million.īefore retiring in 2010, Nicholson was nominated for Academy Awards twelve times. note He asked for $6 million upfront, down from the standard $10 million fee he had to star in a film in the late '80s, but on the condition that he receive a percentage of whatever profits the film made, including from Joker merchandise.
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However, his talents don't come cheap, and he set a record for the then-highest-paid single movie role of all time when he played the Joker. He's also known for keeping up his career, as he has to approve of the script personally to make the movie and thus often avoiding only doing his roles for the money. Nicholson is internationally renowned for his often dark-themed portrayals of neurotic characters, such as The Joker in Tim Burton's Batman (1989) and Randle McMurphy in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. You want us to describe Jack Nicholson here? You want the TRUTH?!īut if you insist.If you want a candidate for the title of "best actor of all time", John Joseph "Jack" Nicholson (born April 22, 1937) is the man - though he's not so much an actor as a force of nature. "I don't want people to know what I'm actually like.
