If Panic's Ray Nicholson Looks Familiar, It Might Be Because of His Famous Father

Thankfully, Ray's mother, Rebecca Broussard, intervened. Had she not "held out," Ray likely would've been named Landslide. "Ray may have a problem with being a little too good-looking," Jack said in a 1994 interview with Vanity Fair. "Looks exactly like Rebecca. When he was born, he looked like one of the farmers in The Magnificent Seven. He does move like me. There's a lot of body language on him. You don't miss them Nicholson legs. Somebody's got to get them, poor thing. They're useful but short. Most infants pretty much don't have chins. But Ray always had a jaw. You can't wait to get him into a collar or a shaving commercial."

Alright, "role" might be kind of a stretch, but it was his first foray into acting. In The Benchwarmers, the raunchy sports comedy reminiscent of Bad News Bears, Ray played "Kid Catcher #1 Game #2." He didn't start seriously acting until the 2010s, with a series of shorts. He really found his stride in 2018 with a recurring role on Mayans M.C. as a prospective member of SAMCRO named Hallorann. Ray followed it up with roles as Jim in 2020's Promising Young Woman and Ray on 2021's Panic. Ray can next be seen in Where Are You with Anthony Hopkins.

It seems Ray's love of the Lakers is a trait he shares with his dad. While Jack Nicholson rarely makes public appearances these days, there's a good chance you can see him courtside at a Lakers game with Ray.

Prior to filming Panic, Ray had a discussion with author Lauren Oliver about his character's story arc. "As we were getting each episode, it was like, 'What's going on? What's going to happen?' But certainly with Ray, just knowing where the character was going — Lauren Oliver made a joke that Ray was originally the character that didn't have an arc, he was just the d*ck through and through all the way," Ray said in an interview with Comic Book. "She gave me an opportunity to do something different with that, which was really fun."