Nick Nolte

Nick Nolte is an American actor film producer voice artist comedian and former model He won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor Motion Picture Drama and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor for the 1991 film The Prince of Tides He went on to receive Academy Award nominations for Affliction and Warrior 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 Clairols Summer Blonde hair lightener sitting on a log next to a blonde Chris OConnor and they appeared on the packaging In 1992 Nolte was named the Sexiest Man Alive by People magazine Nolte first starred in the television miniseries Rich Man Poor Man based on Irwin Shaws 1970 bestselling novel Later he appeared in over forty films playing a wide variety of characters Diversity of character trademark athleticism and gravelly voice are signatures of his career In 1973 he gueststarred 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 costarred 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 Wholl Stop the Rain North Dallas Fort which is based on Peter Gents novel and starred in 48 Hrs with Eddie Murphy During the 1980s he starred in Under Fire Down and Out in Beverly Hills Extreme Prejudice and New York Stories Nolte starred with Katharine Hepburn in her last leading film role in Grace Quigley 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 Scorseses remake of Cape Fear with Robert De Niro and Jessica Lange Nolte also starred in Lorenzos Oil Jefferson in Paris Mulholland Falls and Afterglow He received his second Academy Award nomination the same year for Affliction Nolte starred with Sean Penn in three films including Terrence Malicks war epic The Thin Red Line U Turn and Gangster Squad 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 2015 Nolte starred in the biopic comedydrama A Walk in the Woods and in the revenge thriller Return to Sender