Biography of Nick Nolte

Nicholas King Nolte is an American actor, producer, author, and former model. He won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor â€“ 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 . His other film appearances include The Deep , Who'll Stop The Rain , North Dallas Forty , 48 Hrs. , Teachers , Down and Out in Beverly Hills , Another 48 Hrs. , Everybody Wins , Cape Fear , Lorenzo's Oil , I Love Trouble , Blue Chips , The Thin Red Line , The Good Thief , Hulk , Hotel Rwanda , Tropic Thunder , A Walk in the Woods , and Angel Has Fallen . He was also nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor â€“ Television Series Musical or Comedy for his role in the TV series Graves. Nolte was born on February 8, 1941, in Omaha, Nebraska. His 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 . His mother, Helen , was a department store buyer, and then became an expert antique dealer, co-owning a prestigious and successful antique shop despite having no formal education in the area. His ancestry includes German, English, Scots-Irish, Scottish and Swiss-German. Nolte's maternal grandfather, Matthew Leander King, invented the hollow-tile silo and was prominent in early aviation. His maternal grandmother ran the student union at Iowa State University. He has an older sister, Nancy, who was an executive for the Red Cross. Nolte attended Kingsley Elementary School in Waterloo, Iowa. He studied at Westside High School in Omaha, where he was the kicker on the football team. He also attended Benson High School, but was expelled for hiding beer before practice and being caught drinking it during a practice session. Following his high school graduation in 1959, he attended Pasadena City College in Southern California, Arizona State University in Tempe , Eastern Arizona College in Thatcher and Phoenix College in Phoenix. At Eastern Arizona, Nolte lettered in football as a tight end and defensive end, in basketball as a forward, and as a catcher on the baseball team. Poor grades eventually ended his studies, at which point his career in theatre began in earnest. While in college, Nolte worked for the Falstaff Brewery in Omaha. After stints at the Pasadena Playhouse and the Stella Adler Academy in Los Angeles, Nolte spent several years traveling the country and working in regional theaters, including the Old Log Theater in Minnesota for three years.