Nick Nolte is an actor.
Affliction (film) . It stars Nick Nolte , Sissy Spacek , James Coburn and Willem Dafoe . Nick Nolte . 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 was also nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor -- Television Series Musical or Comedy for his role in the TV series Graves ( 2016 -- present ) .