1. Nick Nolte first came to prominence for his role in the ABC miniseries Rich Man, Poor Man for which he received a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or Movie nomination.
34 Facts About Nick Nolte
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Nick Nolte has received three Academy Award nominations for The Prince of Tides, Affliction, and Warrior.
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Nick Nolte was born in Omaha, Nebraska on February 8,1941.
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Nick Nolte's father, Franklin Arthur Nolte, was a farmer's son who ran away from home, nearly dropped out of high school and was a three-time letter winner in football at Iowa State University.
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Nick Nolte's mother, Helen, was a department store buyer, then became an antique dealer, co-owning an antique shop.
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Nick Nolte has an older sister, Nancy, who was an executive for the Red Cross.
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Nick Nolte studied at Westside High School in Omaha, where he was the kicker on the football team.
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Nick Nolte attended Benson High School, but was expelled for hiding beer before practice and being caught drinking it during a practice session.
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Nick Nolte was a model in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
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Nick Nolte first starred in the television miniseries Rich Man, Poor Man, based on Irwin Shaw's 1970 best-selling novel.
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Nick Nolte made two guest appearances in the television series Barnaby Jones in 1974 and 1975.
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Nick Nolte co-starred with Andy Griffith in Winter Kill, a television film made as the pilot of a possible television series, and another one, Adams of Eagle Lake, but neither was picked up.
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Nick Nolte starred in The Deep, Who'll Stop the Rain, and North Dallas Forty which is based on Peter Gent's novel.
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Nick Nolte starred with Katharine Hepburn in her last leading film role in Grace Quigley.
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In 1991, Nick Nolte starred in The Prince of Tides and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor.
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Nick Nolte starred in Lorenzo's Oil, Jefferson in Paris, Mulholland Falls and Afterglow.
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Nick Nolte co-starred in I Love Trouble with Julia Roberts.
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Nick Nolte received his second Academy Award nomination for the 1997 film Affliction.
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Nick Nolte starred with Sean Penn in three films, including U Turn, Terrence Malick's war epic The Thin Red Line, and Gangster Squad.
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Nick Nolte continued to work in the 2000s, appearing in The Good Thief, Hulk, and taking smaller parts in 2004's Clean and Hotel Rwanda, both performances receiving positive reviews.
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Nick Nolte played supporting roles in the drama Peaceful Warrior, the fantasy adventure The Spiderwick Chronicles and the comedy Tropic Thunder.
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In 2011, Nick Nolte played recovering alcoholic Paddy Conlon in Warrior, and was nominated for Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.
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Nick Nolte appeared in the political thrillers The Company You Keep and Angel Has Fallen.
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In 2015, Nick Nolte starred in the biopic comedy-drama A Walk in the Woods and in the revenge thriller Return to Sender.
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From 2016 to 2017, Nick Nolte starred in Graves on Epix about a volatile, hard-drinking former US president who has been retired for 25 years and who has a political epiphany to right the wrongs of his past administration in very public and unpredictable ways.
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For Nick Nolte, acting is not a career but something he needs to do, he says, "a need in the sense that I can't find anything as complex and interesting to do, but I need it in a story," and "I don't want to do reality because reality never runs smooth".
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Nick Nolte appeared as recurring character Kuiil in the Disney+ series The Mandalorian in 2019.
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Nick Nolte was previously married to Sheila Page, Sharyn Haddad, and Rebecca Linger.
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Nick Nolte and Linger had a daughter in 1983 who was stillborn.
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Nick Nolte lived with Karen Eklund, who later sued him for palimony.
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Nick Nolte had felt obligated to serve in the Vietnam War, and says that he felt incomplete as a young man for not going to Vietnam.
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On September 11,2002, Nick Nolte was arrested on suspicion of drunk driving in Malibu, California.
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Nick Nolte was given three years' probation, with orders to undergo alcohol and drug counseling with random testing required.
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In 2005, The Independent reported that Nick Nolte had struggled with substance abuse for "the majority of his adult life" and had begun abusing alcohol at an early age.