The Backstory

This actor is permanently A list.

There are very few movies he made which are not great.

He is a multiple Oscar winner and for now, very much alive.

Old, but very much alive.

He hasn’t acted in quite some time.

Over his many decades of giving interviews he always had a very rehearsed answer about where he was from and things like that. He wasn’t always smooth about it and when he first started acting in his late 20’s and early 30’s, his story changed quite frequently until he landed on what worked best and then stuck with it.

His big secret is that he is the offspring of a brother and sister who had s.e.x.

Jack Nicholson

Early life

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). Nicholson’s mother was of Irish, English, German, and Welsh descent. She married Italian-American showman Donald Furcillo (stage name Donald Rose) in 1936, before realizing that he was already married. Biographer Patrick McGilligan stated in his book Jack’s Life that Latvian-born Eddie King (originally Edgar A. Kirschfeld) June’s manager, may have been Nicholson’s biological father, rather than Furcillo. Other sources suggest June Nicholson was unsure of the father’s identity. As June was only seventeen years old and unmarried, her parents agreed to raise Nicholson as their own child without revealing his true parentage, and June would act as his sister.

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. By this time, both his mother and grandmother had died (in 1963 and 1970, respectively). On finding out, Nicholson said it was “a pretty dramatic event, but it wasn’t what I’d call traumatizing … I was pretty well psychologically formed”. – Source

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