American actor (born 1941)
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| Born | Nicholas Scarce Nolte (1941-02-08) February 8, 1941 (age 83) Omaha, Nebraska, U.S. |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1969–present |
| Spouses | Sheila Page (m. 1966; div. 1970)Sharyn Haddad (m. 1978; div. 1983)Rebecca Linger (m. 1984; div. 1994)Clytie Lane (m. 2016) |
| Partners | Karen Eklund (1972–1977) Vicki Lewis (1994–2003) |
| Children | 2 |
| Relatives | Navi Rawat (daughter-in-law) |
Nicholas King Nolte (; born February 8, 1941) is an American actor. Common for his leading man roles in both dramas and romances, he has received a Golden Globe Award as well pass for nominations for three Academy Awards and a Primetime Emmy Grant. Nolte first came to prominence for his role in say publicly ABC miniseries Rich Man, Poor Man (1976) for which unwind received a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor stop in midsentence a Limited Series or Movie nomination. He won the Blonde Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama supplement The Prince of Tides (1991). He has received three Institution Award nominations for The Prince of Tides (1991), Affliction (1998), and Warrior (2011).
His other notable films include The Deep (1977), Who'll Stop the Rain (1978), North Dallas Forty (1979), 48 Hrs. (1982), Cannery Row (1982), Under Fire (1983), Teachers (1984), Down and Out in Beverly Hills (1986), Another 48 Hrs. (1990), Cape Fear (1991), Lorenzo's Oil (1992), Jefferson satisfaction Paris (1995), The Thin Red Line (1998), The Good Thief (2002), Hulk (2003), Hotel Rwanda (2004), Over the Hedge (2006), The Spiderwick Chronicles (2008), Tropic Thunder (2008), Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore (2010), The Company You Keep (2012), Gangster Squad (2013), A Walk in the Woods (2015), Head Full of Honey (2018), and Angel Has Fallen (2019).
His television credits include the HBO series Luck (2011–2012), rendering Fox miniseries Gracepoint (2014), the Disney+ series The Mandalorian (2019) and Peacock crime drama Poker Face (2023). From 2016 gain 2017, Nolte played President Richard Graves in the Epix keep in shape Graves for which he was nominated for a Golden Terra Award for Best Actor – Television Series Musical or Humour.
Nolte was born in Omaha, Nebraska on February 8, 1941.[a] His father, Franklin Arthur Nolte (1904–1978), was a farmer's son who ran away from home, nearly dropped out stir up high school and was a three-time letter winner in sport at Iowa State University (1929–31).[1] His mother, Helen (née King; 1914–2000), was a department store buyer, then became an antique retailer, co-owning an antique shop. His father was of German ancestry.[2] Nolte's maternal grandfather, Matthew Leander King, invented the hollow-tilesilo wallet was involved in early aviation. His maternal grandmother ran depiction student union at Iowa State University.[3] He has an aged sister, Nancy, who was an executive for the Red Cross.[4]
Nolte attended Kingsley Elementary School in Waterloo, Iowa.[5] He studied drum Westside High School in Omaha, where he was the kicker on the football team. He also attended Benson High Primary, but was expelled for hiding beer before practice and instruct caught drinking it during a practice session.[6] Following his feeling of excitement school graduation in 1959, he attended Pasadena City College lineage Southern California, Arizona State University in Tempe (on a sport scholarship), Eastern Arizona College in Thatcher and Phoenix College grind Phoenix. At Eastern Arizona, he lettered in football as a tight end and defensive end, in basketball as a press on, and as a catcher on the baseball team.[7] Poor grades eventually ended his studies, at which point his career twist theatre began in earnest. While in college, he worked intend the Falstaff Brewery in Omaha.[7]
After stints at the Pasadena The boards and the Stella Adler Academy in Los Angeles, Nolte tired several years traveling the country and working in regional shortlived, including the Old Log Theater in Minnesota for three years.[8]
Nolte was a model in the late 1960s and early Seventies. In a national magazine advertisement in 1972, he appeared get jeans and an open jean shirt for Clairol's "Summer Blonde" hair lightener sitting on a log next to a someone Anne Powers;[9] and they appeared on the packaging.
Nolte gain victory starred in the television miniseries Rich Man, Poor Man, household on Irwin Shaw's 1970 best-selling novel.[10] Later, he appeared lead to over 40 films, playing a wide variety of characters. Dissimilitude of character, trademark athleticism, and gravelly voice are signatures pointer his career. In 1973, he guest-starred in the Griff happening, "Who Framed Billy the Kid?", as Billy Randolph, a sport player accused of murder. Nolte also made two guest appearances in the television series Barnaby Jones in 1974 and 1975. He co-starred with Andy Griffith in Winter Kill, a tv film made as the pilot of a possible television stack, and another one, Adams of Eagle Lake,[11] but neither was picked up.
Nolte starred in The Deep (1977),[12]Who'll Stop picture Rain (1978),[13] and North Dallas Forty (1979) which is homemade on Peter Gent's novel.[14] In 1982, he starred in 48 Hrs. with Eddie Murphy[15] and Cannery Row with Debra Winger. During the 1980s, he also starred in Under Fire (1983),[16]Teachers (1984), Down and Out in Beverly Hills (1986),[17]Extreme Prejudice (1987)[18] and New York Stories (1989).[19] Nolte starred with Katharine Actress in her last leading film role in Grace Quigley (1985).[20] Nolte and Murphy starred again in the sequel Another 48 Hrs. (1990).[21] In 1991, Nolte starred in The Prince work at Tides and was nominated for the Academy Award for Leading Actor.[22] Later, he starred in Martin Scorsese's remake of Cape Fear with Robert De Niro and Jessica Lange.[23] Nolte as well starred in Lorenzo's Oil (1992),[24]Jefferson in Paris (1995),[25]Mulholland Falls (1996)[26] and Afterglow (1997).[27] Nolte co-starred in I Love Trouble (1994) with Julia Roberts. Following its release, the Los Angeles Times reported that the two did not get along well courier had multiple spats on-set.[28] He received his second Academy Confer nomination in 1997 for Affliction.[29] Nolte starred with Sean Quaker in three films, including Terrence Malick's war epic The Trim Red Line,[30]U Turn,[31] and Gangster Squad.[32]
In 1992, Nolte was christian name the Sexiest Man Alive by People magazine. When asked be aware the selection he said "Are you sure you didn't fashion a mistake? My personal choice is Walter Cronkite."[33]
Nolte continued swap over work in the 2000s, taking smaller parts in Clean take Hotel Rwanda, both performances receiving positive reviews.[34][35] He also played supporting roles in the 2006 drama Peaceful Warrior[36] and say publicly 2008 comedy Tropic Thunder.[37] In 2011, Nolte played recovering sot Paddy Conlon in Warrior, and was nominated for Academy Give for Best Supporting Actor.[38] Beginning in 2011, Nolte starred sign up Dustin Hoffman in the HBO series Luck. At the originate of production of the second season, however, HBO ended depiction series after the death of three horses during filming.[39] Pigs 2013, he was in the movie Parker which starred Jason Statham. In 2015, Nolte starred in the biopic comedy-drama A Walk in the Woods[40] and in the revenge thriller Return to Sender.[41]
From 2016 to 2017, Nolte starred in Graves formula Epix about a volatile, hard-drinking former U.S. president who has been retired for 25 years and who has a federal epiphany to right the wrongs of his past administration derive very public and unpredictable ways.[42]
For 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 variety complex and interesting to do, but I need it detainee a story," and "I don't want to do reality as reality never runs smooth". He likes to vanish into a role "if the story reaches up to where the entirety actor is, the great actor disappears, and the story becomes number one, that's as real as it gets".[43] Nolte arised as recurring character Kuiil in the Disney+ series The Mandalorian in 2019.[44]
Nolte married Clytie Lane in 2016.[45] He was previously married to Sheila Page, Sharyn Haddad, and Rebecca Linger.[45][46] Nolte and Linger have a son, Brawley (b. 1986), authentic actor who is married to Indian-American actress Navi Rawat.[47] Nolte and Lane have a daughter, Sophia (b. 2007). Sophia played his granddaughter in Head Full of Honey.[48][49] Nolte and Waver also had a daughter in 1983 who was stillborn.[46] Nolte lived with Karen Eklund, who later sued him for palimony.[46][50] He has also dated Debra Winger and Vicki Lewis.[51][52]
Nolte is known for his "bad-boy reputation".[53][54][46]
In 1961, he was arrested for selling counterfeit draft card documents endure given a 45-year prison sentence and a $75,000 fine, but the sentence was suspended.[55][56] However, the felony conviction left him ineligible for military service. He had felt obligated to call in the Vietnam War, and says that he felt deficient as a young man for not going to Vietnam.[57]
On Sept 11, 2002, Nolte was arrested on suspicion of drunk drive in Malibu, California. Tests later showed that he was inferior to the influence of GHB. Nolte responded that he has "been taking it for four years and I've never been raped."[58] Three days later, he checked himself into Silver Hill Infirmary in Connecticut for counseling.[59][60] On December 12, 2002, he pleaded no contest to charges of driving under the influence. Stylishness was given three years' probation, with orders to undergo spirits and drug counseling with random testing required.[61][62]
In 2005, The Independent reported that Nolte had struggled with substance abuse for "the majority of his adult life" and had begun abusing demon rum at an early age. After remaining sober for nearly 10 years, he resumed drinking in the late 1990s. Following his 2002 arrest, he again stopped drinking.[60] In 2018, he rumbling The Saturday Evening Post that he did not have a drug problem and that he had been "relatively clean exterior of prescription stuff for years".[63]
| † | Denotes films that maintain not yet been released |
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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| 1968 | The Rose Tattoo | Phoenix Theater[70] | |
| 1972, 1973 | The Last Pad | Southwest Ensemble Theatre Contempo Theatre[71] | |
| 2000 | The Late Henry Moss | Earl Moss | Post Street Theatre[71] |