Jack and Lorraine Nicholson. (Photograph by Getty)
Jack Nicholson’s daughter Lorraine shared a uncommon picture of the Oscar-winning actor.
Recapping the vacation season, Lorraine, 34, posted a collection of pictures, together with one in all herself cuddling as much as her well-known dad, 87, through Instagram on Thursday, January 2.
“The giving season ?” she captioned the publish.
Lorraine is Nicholson’s daughter along with his ex-girlfriend, actress and mannequin Rebecca Broussard. The previous couple welcomed their daughter collectively in April 1990; Broussard later gave beginning to a son, Raymond Nicholson, in February 1992.
Fashionable household? Jack Nicholson has welcomed six kids with 5 ladies through the years — however he has solely publicly commented on 4 of them. The three-time Oscar winner solely tied the knot as soon as, to Sandra Knight, within the early Sixties. After the couple welcomed their daughter, Jennifer Nicholson, in 1963, they remained married for […]
A graduate of Brown College and a former Miss Golden Globe, Lorraine has adopted in her dad’s footsteps and appeared in a number of movies through the years, akin to 2004’s The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement, 2006’s Click on, 2011’s Soul Surfer, and 2016’s Hacker.
In 2011, Lorraine revealed to Us Weekly that Jack had been instrumental in her want to pursue appearing.
“He’s my mentor,” she solely advised Us on the time. “I’m going into the household enterprise as a result of we’re so shut and he’s such an inspiration. I love him a lot.”
She additionally opened up concerning the significance of being modest within the trade.
“My grandma at all times advised my father, ‘Don’t toot your personal horn,’ which in Nicholson converse means, ‘Be modest and let your work converse for your self,’” Lorraine stated. “That’s type of what I utilized to not solely my appearing work, however my on a regular basis work.”
Lorraine and Jack Nicholson. (Photograph Courtesy of Lorraine Nicholson/Instagram)
Because the daughter of a Hollywood star and infamous playboy, Lorraine had an unconventional upbringing. She wrote about her childhood in an essay for Vainness Truthful in February 2024, sharing that she usually visited Hugh Hefner’s Playboy Mansion as a baby.
“I knew the Mansion was not supposed for kids, however I requested no questions,” she wrote.
Lorraine added, “I by no means went to summer time camp. I by no means had an after-school exercise,” she recalled. “From the yr I used to be born, 1990, till I used to be about 11, I went to the Playboy Mansion, as a result of that’s the place my associates have been.”
An appearing legend. Jack Nicholson has been a pressure in Hollywood since touchdown his breakout function in 1969’s Simple Rider. “It’s tremendously laborious to take a look at your work. They did a retrospective at Telluride [Film Festival] and confirmed all the films and I couldn’t bear it; I needed to depart the cinema,” Nicholson recalled to Eire’s Impartial in […]
In the meantime, Jack spoke about his fatherhood expertise in a 2010 interview with AARP The Journal, sharing how shut he’s to Lorraine and Ray.
“We’ve at all times gotten alongside,” he advised the outlet. “I wish to be inspirational, or some type of good affect on them with out overburdening them. It’s their time of life to search out out who they’re.”
Jack has fathered six kids. Along with Lorraine and Ray, Jack welcomed Jennifer Nicholson in 1963 with ex-wife Sandra Knight. Jack’s 5 Simple Items costar Susan Anspach gave beginning to his first son, Caleb Goddard, in 1970.
Daughter Honey Hollman arrived in 1981, whose mom is mannequin Winnie Hollman. Jennine Gourin gave beginning to Jack’s youngest daughter, Tessa Gourin, in 1994. [Jack and Tessa have been estranged for much of her life. In 2023, Tessa told The Daily Beast that Jack “wasn’t interested” in having a relationship with her, adding, “I don’t know this person very well, we’ll just say that.”]
