Nick Nolte

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Nicholas King Nolte (born February 8, 1941) is an American actor, writer, and former model.

He received the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama in 1991, and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor for The Prince of Tides.

He went on to receive Academy Award nominations for Affliction (1998) and Warrior (2011). The Deep (1977), Who'll Stop The Rain (1978), and North Dallas Forty (1979), 48 Hrs.

Teachers (1982) Teachers (1984), Down and Out in Beverly Hills (1986), Another 48 Hrs.

Everybody Wins (1990), Cape Fear (1991), Lorenzo's Oil (1992), The Good Thief (2003), The Good Thief (2004), Hotel Rwanda (2004), Tropic Thunder (2008), Angel Has Fallen (2019). He was also nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Television Series Musical or Comedy for his role in the TV series Graves.

Early life

Nolte was born in Omaha, Nebraska, on February 8, 1941. Franklin Arthur Nolte (1904–1978) was a farmer's son who ran away from home and was a three-time letter winner in football at Iowa State University (1929-1931). Helen (née King, 1914–2000), a department store owner, then became a respected antique dealer, co-owning a highly respected and profitable antique store. His ancestry includes German, English, Scots-Irish, Scottish, and Swiss-Germany. Matthew Leander King, Nolte's maternal grandfather, invented the hollow-tile silo and was a pioneer in early aviation. At Iowa State University, his maternal grandmother led the student union. Nancy, his older sister who worked for the Red Cross, was an executive.

Nolte attended Kingsley Elementary School in Waterloo, Iowa. He attended Westside High School in Omaha, where he was the kicker on the football team. He also attended Benson High School but was banned for hiding beer before practice and being caught enjoying it during a practice session. He attended Pasadena City College in Tempe, Arizona State University (on a football scholarship), Eastern Arizona College in Thatcher, Phoenix, and Phoenix College in 1959. He lettered in football as a forward and defensive end, as a catcher on the baseball team, and as a catcher on the baseball team at Eastern Arizona. Poor marks ended his education, at a time when his career in theatre began in earnest. He worked with the Falstaff Brewery in Omaha while attending college.

Nolte spent three years in Los Angeles, including the Old Log Theater in Minnesota, after stints at the Pasadena Playhouse and the Stella Adler Academy.

Personal life

In 2016, Nolte married Clytie Lane. He was previously married to Sheila Page, Sharyn Haddad, and Rebecca Linger. Brawley, his son, who has appeared in a few scenes herself, appeared in Nolte and Linger. Sophie, Nolte and Lane's daughter, was born in 2007. In Head Full of Honey, Sophie played his granddaughter. In 1983, Nolte and Linger had a daughter who was stillborn. Nolte has dated Karen Eklund, Debra Winger, and Vicki Lewis.

Julia Roberts and Nolte co-starred in the 1994 film I Love Trouble. Following their publication, the Los Angeles Times announced that the two did not get along well and had multiple spats on set.

Nolte is well-known for his "bad-boy image."

He was arrested in 1965 for selling counterfeit documents and receiving a 45-year prison term and a $75,000 fine, but the punishment was suspended. However, the criminal conviction rendered him ineligible for military service. He had felt obliged to serve in the Vietnam War and claims he felt incomplete as a young man for not going to Vietnam.

In Malibu, California, Nolte was arrested on suspicion of impaired driving on September 11, 2002. He checked himself into Silver Hill Hospital in Connecticut three days later for counseling. Later tests revealed that he was under GHB's custody. "I've been taking it for four years and I've never been attacked," Nolte said. He pleaded no contest to charges of driving under the influence on December 12, 2002. He was sentenced to three years of probation, with orders to perform alcohol and opioid testing. He worked at a Connecticut rehabilitation facility.

Nolte had struggled with heroin use for "the bulk of his adult life" and had begun using alcohol at an early age, according to The Independent in 2005. He recommenced drinking in the late 1990s after being sober for almost ten years. He stopped drinking following his detention in 2002. He told The Saturday Evening Post that he did not have a prescription drug problem and that he had been "relatively clean outside of prescription products for years."

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Career

Nolte was a model in the late 1960s and early 1970s. In a national magazine advertisement in 1972, he appeared in jeans and an open jean shirt for Clairol's "Summer Blonde" hair lightener sitting on a log next to a blonde Chris O'Connor; and they appeared on the packaging.

Nolte first starred in the television miniseries Rich Man, Poor Man, based on Irwin Shaw's 1970 best-selling novel. Later, he appeared in over 40 films, playing a wide variety of characters. Diversity of character, trademark athleticism, and gravelly voice are signatures of his career. In 1973, he guest-starred in the Griff episode, "Who Framed Billy the Kid?", as Billy Randolph, a football 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 television film made as the pilot of a possible television series, and another one, Adams of Eagle Lake, but neither was picked up.

Nolte starred in The Deep (1977), Who'll Stop the Rain (1978), North Dallas Forty (1979) which is based on Peter Gent's novel, and starred in 48 Hrs. (1982) with Eddie Murphy. During the 1980s, he starred in Under Fire (1983), Down and Out in Beverly Hills (1986), Extreme Prejudice (1987) and New York Stories (1989). Nolte starred with Katharine Hepburn in her last leading film role in Grace Quigley (1985). Nolte and Murphy starred again in the sequel Another 48 Hrs.. In 1991, Nolte starred in The Prince of Tides and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor. Later, he starred in Martin Scorsese's remake of Cape Fear with Robert De Niro and Jessica Lange. Nolte also starred in Lorenzo's Oil (1992), Jefferson in Paris (1995), Mulholland Falls (1996) and Afterglow (1997). He received his second Academy Award nomination the same year for Affliction. Nolte starred with Sean Penn in three films, including Terrence Malick's war epic The Thin Red Line, U Turn, and Gangster Squad.

In 1992, Nolte was named the Sexiest Man Alive by People magazine. When asked about the selection he said "Are you sure you didn't make a mistake? My personal choice is Walter Cronkite."

Nolte continued to work in the 2000s, taking smaller parts in Clean and Hotel Rwanda, both performances receiving positive reviews. He also played supporting roles in the 2006 drama Peaceful Warrior and the 2008 comedy Tropic Thunder. In 2011, Nolte played recovering alcoholic Paddy Conlon in Warrior, and was nominated for Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. Beginning in 2011, Nolte starred with Dustin Hoffman in the HBO series Luck. At the start of production of the second season, however, HBO ended the series after the death of three horses during filming. In 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 and in the revenge thriller Return to Sender.

From 2016 to 2017, Nolte starred in Graves on Epix about a volatile, hard-drinking former U.S. 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.

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 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". He likes to vanish into a role "if the story reaches up to where the great actor is, the great actor disappears, and the story becomes number one, that's as real as it gets". Nolte appeared as recurring character Kuiil in the Disney+ series The Mandalorian in 2019.

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