Jack and Lorraine Nicholson. (Photo by Getty)
Jack Nicholson’s daughter Lorraine shared a rare photo of the Oscar-winning actor.
Recapping the holiday season, Lorraine, 34, posted a series of images, including one of herself cuddling up to her famous dad, 87, via Instagram on Thursday, January 2.
“The giving season 🎁” she captioned the post.
Lorraine is Nicholson’s daughter with his ex-girlfriend, actress and model Rebecca Broussard. The former couple welcomed their daughter together in April 1990; Broussard later gave birth to a son, Raymond Nicholson, in February 1992.
Modern family? Jack Nicholson has welcomed six children with five women over the years — but he has only publicly commented on four of them. The three-time Oscar winner only tied the knot once, to Sandra Knight, in the early 1960s. After the couple welcomed their daughter, Jennifer Nicholson, in 1963, they remained married for […]
A graduate of Brown University and a former Miss Golden Globe, Lorraine has followed in her dad’s footsteps and appeared in several films over the years, such as 2004’s The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement, 2006’s Click, 2011’s Soul Surfer, and 2016’s Hacker.
In 2011, Lorraine revealed to Us Weekly that Jack had been instrumental in her desire to pursue acting.
“He’s my mentor,” she exclusively told Us at the time. “I’m going into the family business because we’re so close and he’s such an inspiration. I admire him so much.”
She also opened up about the importance of being modest in the industry.
“My grandma always told my father, ‘Don’t toot your own horn,’ which in Nicholson speak means, ‘Be modest and let your work speak for yourself,’” Lorraine said. “That’s sort of what I applied to not only my acting work, but my everyday work.”
Lorraine and Jack Nicholson. (Photo Courtesy of Lorraine Nicholson/Instagram)
As the daughter of a Hollywood star and notorious playboy, Lorraine had an unconventional upbringing. She wrote about her childhood in an essay for Vanity Fair in February 2024, sharing that she often visited Hugh Hefner’s Playboy Mansion as a child.
“I knew the Mansion was not intended for children, but I asked no questions,” she wrote.
Lorraine added, “I never went to summer camp. I never had an after-school activity,” she recalled. “From the year I was born, 1990, until I was about 11, I went to the Playboy Mansion, because that’s where my friends were.”
An acting legend. Jack Nicholson has been a force in Hollywood since landing his breakout role in 1969’s Easy Rider. “It is tremendously hard to look at your work. They did a retrospective at Telluride [Film Festival] and showed all the movies and I couldn’t bear it; I had to leave the cinema,” Nicholson recalled to Ireland’s Independent in […]
Meanwhile, Jack spoke about his fatherhood experience in a 2010 interview with AARP The Magazine, sharing how close he is to Lorraine and Ray.
“We’ve always gotten along,” he told the outlet. “I want to be inspirational, or some kind of good influence on them without overburdening them. It’s their time of life to find out who they are.”
Jack has fathered six children. In addition to Lorraine and Ray, Jack welcomed Jennifer Nicholson in 1963 with ex-wife Sandra Knight. Jack’s Five Easy Pieces costar Susan Anspach gave birth to his first son, Caleb Goddard, in 1970.
Daughter Honey Hollman arrived in 1981, whose mother is model Winnie Hollman. Jennine Gourin gave birth 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.”]
