Nicolas Cage (born Nicolas Kim Coppola January 7, 1964) is an award-winning American actor. Cage has also worked as a director and producer through his production company Saturn Films.
As of 2006, he has been nominated twice for an Academy Award as Best Actor in a Leading Role, winning one of them for his performance in Leaving Las Vegas.
Biography
Early life
Nicolas Cage was born Nicolas Kim Coppola in Long Beach, California. He is of Italian descent on his father's side, and English and German descent on that of his mother. His parents are August Floyd Coppola, a comparative literature professor and brother of influential director Francis Ford Coppola, and Joy Vogelsang, a choreographer and dancer. His brother is Michael "The Cope" Coppola, a New York radio personality (currently airing on WAXQ 104.3 (also known as Q104.3). His cousin is Sofia Coppola, director of Lost in Translation and Marie Antoinette. Cage, who went to the same high school as fellow entertainers Albert Brooks, Angelina Jolie, Lenny Kravitz, Slash, Rob Reiner, and David Schwimmer, aspired to act from an early age. His first (non-cinematic) acting experience was in a school production of Golden Boy.
Family and relationships
In his early 20s, he dated Jenny Wright for two years and was later involved with Uma Thurman. Cage has been married three times.
His first wife was Patricia Arquette (April 8, 1995 to May 18, 2001), to whom he proposed to on the day he met her in the early 80's. Arquette thought he was strange, but played along with his antics by creating a list of things Cage would have to do to "win her hand," including obtaining the autograph of reclusive author J.D. Salinger. However, when he seriously started moving through the list of demands, Arquette became scared and avoided him. However they met again many years later and went on to marry. He later married Lisa Marie Presley (August 10, 2002 to May 16, 2004), daughter of Elvis Presley of whom Cage is a fan and based his performance in Wild at Heart on. He later said they shouldn't have been married in the first place. His third (and current) wife, Korean-American Alice Kim, is a former sushi waitress, with whom he has a son, Kal-El (born October 3, 2005). He was also related to Mark Clemmons and Randy Jackson of Seton Hall University.
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Filmography
1982 Fast Times at Ridgemont High Brad's Bud $27,092,880
1983 Valley Girl Randy $17,343,596
Rumble Fish Smokey $2,494,480
1984 Racing with the Moon Nicky and Bud $6,045,647
The Cotton Club Vincent Dwyer $25,928,721
Birdy Sergeant l Columbato $1,455,045
1986 The Boy in Blue Ned Hanlan $275,000
Peggy Sue Got Married Charlie Bodell $41,382,841
1987 Raising Arizona H. I. McDunnough $22,847,564
Moonstruck Ronny Cammareri $80,640,528
1988 Never on Tuesday Man In Red Sports Car N/A
1989 Vampire's Kiss Peter Leow $725,131
1990 Time to Kill Enrico Silvestri N/A
Fire Birds Jake Preston $14,760,451
Wild at Heart Sailor $14,560,247
Zandalee Johnny N/A
1992 Honeymoon in Vegas Jack Singer $35,208,854
1993 Amos & Andrew Amos Odell $9,745,803
Deadfall Eddie $18,369
1994 A Century of Cinema N/A
Red Rock West Michael Williams $2,502,551
Guarding Tess Doug Chesnic $27,058,304
It Could Happen to You Charlie Lang $37,939,757
Trapped in Paradise Bill Firpo $6,017,509
1995 Kiss of Death Little Junior Brown $14,942,422
Leaving Las Vegas Ben Sanderson $32,029,928
1996 The Rock Dr. Stanley Goodspeed $134,069,511
1997 Sean Connery, an Intimate Portrait Himself N/A
Con Air Cameron Poe $101,117,573
Face/Off Castor Troy $112,276,146
1998 City of Angels Seth $78,685,114
Snake Eyes Rick Santoro $55,591,409
Junket Whore Himself N/A
1999 8mm Tom Welles $36,663,315
Bringing Out the Dead Frank Pierce $16,797,191
2000 Gone in Sixty Seconds Randall "Memphis" Raines $101,648,571
The Family Man Jack Cambell $75,793,305
Welcome to Hollywood Himself N/A
2001 Italian Soldiers Himself N/A
Captain Corelli's Mandolin Captain Antonio Corelli $25,543,895
Christmas Carol: The Movie Jacob Marley (Voice) N/A
2002 Windtalkers Sgt. Joe Enders $40,914,068
Adaptation. Charlie and Donald Kaufman $22,498,520
Sonny Acid Yellow (Also director) $30,005
2003 Matchstick Men Roy Waller $36,906,460
2004 National Treasure Ben Gates $173,008,894
2005 Lord of War Yuri Orlov $24,149,632
The Weather Man David Spritz $12,482,775
2006 The Ant Bully Zoc (Voice) $27,918,618
World Trade Center Sgt. John McLoughlin $70,278,893
The Wicker Man Edward Malus $23,440,031
