Editing Mike Nichols (section)

==Personal life==
Nichols was married four times; the first three ended in divorce, the last upon his death.<ref name="TDT">{{cite web|title=Mike Nichols - obituary|work=[[The Daily Telegraph]]|date=November 20, 2014|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/11243432/Mike-Nichols-obituary.html}}</ref>

Nichols's first marriage was to Patricia Scot; they were married from 1957 to 1960. His second was to Margot Callas, a former "[[muse]]" of the poet [[Robert Graves]], from 1963 to 1974.<ref>[https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/sep/26/alastair-reid New Yorker essayist Alastair Reid obituary] The Guardian newspaper, publish date September 24, 2014</ref> The couple had a daughter together, Daisy Nichols. His third marriage, in 1975, to [[Annabel Davis-Goff]], produced two children, Max Nichols and Jenny Nichols; it ended in divorce in 1986.<ref name="Bloom">{{Cite web |last= Bloom |first= Nate |title= American Olympic Medal Hopefuls |publisher= InterfaithFamily.com |date= February 2, 2010 |url= https://www.interfaithfamily.com/arts_and_entertainment/popular_culture/interfaith_celebrities_olympic_athletes_and_american_faces/ |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20180715195720/https://www.interfaithfamily.com/arts_and_entertainment/popular_culture/Interfaith_Celebrities_Olympic_Athletes_and_American_Faces/ |url-status= dead |archive-date= July 15, 2018 |quote= Nichols and his third wife, Annabel Davis-Goff, who were married between 1975 and 1986, had two children: a daughter, Jenny, now around 32, and a son, Max, now 35. Davis-Goff is of Irish Protestant background and she has become a well known novelist in the last two decades. }}</ref> His fourth was to former ''[[Good Morning America]]'' and ''[[ABC World News Tonight|ABC World News]]'' anchor [[Diane Sawyer]], whom he married on April 29, 1988.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Krishnadev|first1=Calamur|title=Award-Winning Director Mike Nichols Dies At 83|newspaper=NPR|url=https://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2014/11/20/365403720/award-winning-director-mike-nichols-dies-at-83|publisher=National Public Radio|access-date=November 21, 2014|date=November 20, 2014}}</ref> None of his wives were Jewish and his children were not brought up according to a religion, but they identify as Jewish.<ref>[https://www.jewishtampa.com/jews-in-the-news/jews-in-the-news-mike-nichols-dominic-fumusa-and Tampa Jewish Federation: "Jews in the News: Mike Nichols, Yael Grobglas and Dominic Fumusa"] retrieved March 18, 2017 |"''Nichols told Pogrebin that his parents were not religious observant at all. He said he was connected to his Jewish heritage, but did not practice Judaism or any other religion. His three children, he told her, were not raised in any faith. Despite their secular upbringing, Nichols said, all three of his children ultimately came to see themselves as Jewish. Nichols told Pogrebin that his daughter, Jenny, once said to him, "In the end you pick Jewish because it is harder.''"</ref> His son Max married former [[ESPN]] journalist [[Rachel Nichols (journalist)|Rachel Nichols]].

Nichols had a lifelong interest in [[Arabian horse]]s. From 1968 to 2004, he owned a farm in Connecticut and was a noted [[horse breeder]]. He also imported quality Arabian horses from [[Janów Podlaski Stud Farm]] in Poland, some of which sold for record-setting prices.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Cochran|first1=Marsha|title=They Sell Horses, Don't They? Not the Spectacular Way Mike Nichols Does It|url=http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20066540,00.html|work=[[People (magazine)|People]]|access-date=November 21, 2014|date=June 7, 1976}}</ref> While in high school, Nichols had been an instructor at the [[Claremont Riding Academy]] in Manhattan's Upper West Side and also had "ridden in horse shows in Chicago."<ref name="TheNewYorker">{{cite magazine |last1=McCarten |first1=John |title=November 12, 1960 Nichols, May and Horses |magazine=The New Yorker |date=Sep 4, 2023 |issue=Animals |pages=9–10}}</ref>

In 2009, Nichols signed a petition in support of releasing director [[Roman Polanski]], who had been detained while traveling to a film festival in relation to his 1977 [[Roman Polanski sexual abuse case|sexual abuse charges]], which the petition argued would undermine the tradition of film festivals as a place for works to be shown "freely and safely", and that arresting filmmakers traveling to neutral countries could open the door "for actions of which no-one can know the effects."<ref>{{Cite web |date=2012-06-04 |title=Le cinéma soutient Roman Polanski / Petition for Roman Polanski - SACD |url=http://www.sacd.fr/Le-cinema-soutient-Roman-Polanski-Petition-for-Roman-Polanski.1340.0.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120604100742/http://www.sacd.fr/Le-cinema-soutient-Roman-Polanski-Petition-for-Roman-Polanski.1340.0.html |archive-date=2012-06-04 |access-date=2022-04-20 |website=archive.ph}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Shoard |first1=Catherine |author2=Agencies |date=September 29, 2009 |title=Release Polanski, demands petition by film industry luminaries |newspaper=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2009/sep/29/roman-polanski-petition |url-status=live |access-date=June 12, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190628013652/https://www.theguardian.com/film/2009/sep/29/roman-polanski-petition |archive-date=June 28, 2019}}</ref>