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'Nicolas Cage' (born 'Nicholas Kim Coppola' on January 7, 1964) is an Academy Award-winning American actor. He has also worked as a director and producer, through his production company Saturn Films.[1] As of 2007, Cage has been nominated twice for an Academy Award as Best Actor in a Leading Role, winning the award for his performance in ''Leaving Las Vegas''.
Cage was born in Long Beach, California. His father, August Floyd Coppola, is a writer, comparative literature professor and a pioneer of studies for the blind, while his mother, Joy Vogelsang, is a choreographer and ballet dancer who suffered from chronic depression;[2][3] the two divorced in 1976. Cage's mother is of part German descent and his father is Italian American, with his paternal grandparents being Carmine Coppola and Italia Pennino, an actress. Through his father, Cage is the nephew of director Francis Ford Coppola and actress Talia Shire, as well as the cousin of director Sofia Coppola and actors Robert Carmine and Jason Schwartzman. Cage's two brothers are Christopher Coppola, a director, and Marc "The Cope" Coppola, a New York radio personality. Cage was raised Catholic.[4]
Cage, who went to Beverly Hills High School (the same high school as fellow entertainers Albert Brooks, Angelina Jolie, Lenny Kravitz, Slash, Rob Reiner, Bonnie Franklin and David Schwimmer), aspired to act from an early age.[5] His first (non-cinematic) acting experience was in a school production of ''Golden Boy''. He is also good friends with fellow actor Johnny Depp whom he advised to get into acting.
As a teenager Cage, facing rejection in the jobs he applied for, appropriately suffered a sustained period of unemployment. In order to avoid cries of nepotism as the nephew of Francis Ford Coppola, he changed his name from Nicholas Coppola to Nicolas Cage early in his career.[6] The assumed surname is inspired by Marvel Comics character Luke Cage, a streetwise superhero.5 Since his feature film debut in ''Fast Times at Ridgemont High'', in which he had a minute role opposite Sean Penn, Cage has appeared in a wide range of films, both mainstream and offbeat, including lead in ''Vampire's Kiss''.
Cage is known as a very versatile actor for possessing the ability to play almost any type of role. He has twice been nominated for an Academy Award and won once, for his performance as a suicidal alcoholic in ''Leaving Las Vegas''. His other nomination was for playing real-life screenwriter Charlie Kaufman and Kaufman's fictional twin Donald in ''Adaptation.'' Both of those films were offbeat, low-budget films to which Cage lent his superstar clout. Despite these successes, most of his lower-profile films have performed poorly at the box office compared with his more mainstream, action-filled efforts. In 2005, for example, audiences ignored two offbeat, non-mainstream films he headlined, ''Lord of War'' and ''The Weather Man''. Despite good reviews for his acting and nationwide releases for both films, neither found a significant audience. Poor reviews for the film ''The Wicker Man'' did not, inversely, create a hit; to further buck the trend, the critically-panned ''Ghost Rider'' (2007) was a significant hit, earning more than $45 million during its opening weekend (landing in the top spot) and over $208 million worldwide through the weekend ending on 25 March 2007. More recently he also starred in the 2007 movie ''Next''.
'' in March 2007.]]
Most of his financial successes have come from his forays into the action-adventure genre. In his second highest grossing film to date, ''National Treasure'', he played an eccentric historian who goes on a dangerous adventure to find treasure hidden by the Founding Fathers of the United States. Other action hits in which Cage has starred include ''The Rock'', in which he played a young FBI chemical weapons expert who infiltrates Alcatraz Island in hopes of neutralizing a terrorist threat, ''Face/Off'', a John Woo film where he played both a hero and a villain, and ''World Trade Center'', director Oliver Stone's film regarding the September 11, 2001 attacks. He also had a small but notable role as the Chinese criminal mastermind Dr. Fu Manchu in Rob Zombie's fake trailer ''Werewolf Women of the S.S.'' from the critically-acclaimed B-movie double feature ''Grindhouse''.
In recent years, Cage has experimented in other film-related fields besides acting. He made his directorial debut with ''Sonny'', a low-budget drama starring James Franco as a male prostitute whose mother (Brenda Blethyn) serves as his pimp.1 Cage had a small role in the grim film, which received poor reviews and a short run in a limited number of theatres.
Cage's producing career has seen more success. ''Shadow of the Vampire'', the first film produced by Saturn Films,1 the company he founded with partner Norm Golightly, was nominated for an Academy Award. He also produced ''The Life of David Gale'', a death penalty-themed thriller with Kevin Spacey and Kate Winslet.
In early December 2006, Cage announced at the Bahamas International Film Festival that he would be taking time off from acting. Accordingly, he has eight films currently in the works. Cage said, "I feel I've made a lot of movies already and I want to start exploring other opportunities that I can apply myself to, whether it's writing or other interests that I may develop".[7] Cage is listed as the executive producer of the ''The Dresden Files'' on the Sci-Fi Channel.
In his early 20s, he dated E.G. Daily for two years, and was later involved with Uma Thurman. In 1988, Cage began dating Christina Fulton, mother of their son, Weston Coppola Cage (b. 26 December, 1992); Weston appeared in Cage's film ''Lord of War'' as Vladimir, a young Ukrainian mechanic who quickly disarms a Mil Mi-24 helicopter. Christina is raising their son in Los Angeles CA.
Cage has been married three times:
★ Patricia Arquette (married on April 8, 1995 – divorce finalized May 18, 2001) Cage proposed to her on the day he met her in the early 80s. 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 working through the list of demands, Arquette became scared and avoided him. They met again many years later and went on to marry.
★ Lisa Marie Presley (married on August 10, 2002 and separated after four months in December 2002; their divorce was finalised on May 16, 2004) — the 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.5
★ His third (and current) wife, Korean-American Alice Kim, is a former sushi restaurant waitress, with whom he has a son, Kal-El (born October 3, 2005). She had a minor role in the 2007 movie ''Next'' which he produced.
Cage had a Malibu home where he and Kim lived, but in 2004 he bought a property on Paradise Island, Bahamas. In 2005, he sold his Malibu home for $10 million. In May 2006, he bought a 40-acre island in the Exuma archipelago which had been on the market for $3 million, some 85 miles southeast of Nassau and close to a similar island owned by Faith Hill and Tim McGraw.[8]
On July 19, 2006, Cage bought the old medieval castle of ''Schloss Neidstein'' (see ) in the Oberpfalz region in Germany. His grandmother was German, living in Cochem an der Mosel.[9]
In August, 2007, Cage purchased a home in Middletown, Rhode Island. The 24,000-square foot, brick-and-stone country manor, on 26 secluded acres, has 12 bedrooms, 10 full bathrooms and sweeping views of the Atlantic Ocean from its perch bordering the Norman Bird Sanctuary. Cage sale ranks in the state’s most expensive residential purchases, eclipsed by the $17.15 million sale last December of the Miramar mansion on Bellevue Avenue in Newport.
The name of his second child, Kal-El, is also the birth name of Superman in the DC Comics universe. Nicolas said in a radio interview with Ryan Seacrest that he liked the name Kyle, but his wife wanted a more unique name. Cage is a long-time fan of comics and considers them to be the modern equivalent of mythology. He was once attached to play Superman in a film to be directed by Tim Burton. Cage even did costume fittings, but the project died due to budget and screenplay concerns. Nicolas was director Sam Raimi's first choice to play Norman Osborn/Green Goblin in the movie ''Spider-Man''. (Apparently this was before he met Willem Dafoe.) Cage has a tattoo of Ghost Rider on his body (which, in an ironic twist, had to be covered with makeup when he played the character in a big-budget film adaptation). He has even created a comic book, with his son Weston, called ''Voodoo Child'', which is published by Virgin Comics.
He is an ambassador and a spokesperson for the luxury items manufacturer Mont Blanc. He appears in many of its posters and attends many events.
He loves Pachinko.
★ Coppola family tree
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★ World Trade Center Interview with Nicolas Cage From IGN FilmForce
★ Nicolas Cage Ghost Rider video interview with stv.tv/movies
'Nicolas Cage' (born 'Nicholas Kim Coppola' on January 7, 1964) is an Academy Award-winning American actor. He has also worked as a director and producer, through his production company Saturn Films.[1] As of 2007, Cage has been nominated twice for an Academy Award as Best Actor in a Leading Role, winning the award for his performance in ''Leaving Las Vegas''.
| Contents |
| Biography |
| Early life |
| Career |
| Personal life |
| Filmography |
| See also |
| External links |
Biography
Early life
Cage was born in Long Beach, California. His father, August Floyd Coppola, is a writer, comparative literature professor and a pioneer of studies for the blind, while his mother, Joy Vogelsang, is a choreographer and ballet dancer who suffered from chronic depression;[2][3] the two divorced in 1976. Cage's mother is of part German descent and his father is Italian American, with his paternal grandparents being Carmine Coppola and Italia Pennino, an actress. Through his father, Cage is the nephew of director Francis Ford Coppola and actress Talia Shire, as well as the cousin of director Sofia Coppola and actors Robert Carmine and Jason Schwartzman. Cage's two brothers are Christopher Coppola, a director, and Marc "The Cope" Coppola, a New York radio personality. Cage was raised Catholic.[4]
Cage, who went to Beverly Hills High School (the same high school as fellow entertainers Albert Brooks, Angelina Jolie, Lenny Kravitz, Slash, Rob Reiner, Bonnie Franklin and David Schwimmer), aspired to act from an early age.[5] His first (non-cinematic) acting experience was in a school production of ''Golden Boy''. He is also good friends with fellow actor Johnny Depp whom he advised to get into acting.
Career
As a teenager Cage, facing rejection in the jobs he applied for, appropriately suffered a sustained period of unemployment. In order to avoid cries of nepotism as the nephew of Francis Ford Coppola, he changed his name from Nicholas Coppola to Nicolas Cage early in his career.[6] The assumed surname is inspired by Marvel Comics character Luke Cage, a streetwise superhero.5 Since his feature film debut in ''Fast Times at Ridgemont High'', in which he had a minute role opposite Sean Penn, Cage has appeared in a wide range of films, both mainstream and offbeat, including lead in ''Vampire's Kiss''.
Cage is known as a very versatile actor for possessing the ability to play almost any type of role. He has twice been nominated for an Academy Award and won once, for his performance as a suicidal alcoholic in ''Leaving Las Vegas''. His other nomination was for playing real-life screenwriter Charlie Kaufman and Kaufman's fictional twin Donald in ''Adaptation.'' Both of those films were offbeat, low-budget films to which Cage lent his superstar clout. Despite these successes, most of his lower-profile films have performed poorly at the box office compared with his more mainstream, action-filled efforts. In 2005, for example, audiences ignored two offbeat, non-mainstream films he headlined, ''Lord of War'' and ''The Weather Man''. Despite good reviews for his acting and nationwide releases for both films, neither found a significant audience. Poor reviews for the film ''The Wicker Man'' did not, inversely, create a hit; to further buck the trend, the critically-panned ''Ghost Rider'' (2007) was a significant hit, earning more than $45 million during its opening weekend (landing in the top spot) and over $208 million worldwide through the weekend ending on 25 March 2007. More recently he also starred in the 2007 movie ''Next''.
'' in March 2007.]]
Most of his financial successes have come from his forays into the action-adventure genre. In his second highest grossing film to date, ''National Treasure'', he played an eccentric historian who goes on a dangerous adventure to find treasure hidden by the Founding Fathers of the United States. Other action hits in which Cage has starred include ''The Rock'', in which he played a young FBI chemical weapons expert who infiltrates Alcatraz Island in hopes of neutralizing a terrorist threat, ''Face/Off'', a John Woo film where he played both a hero and a villain, and ''World Trade Center'', director Oliver Stone's film regarding the September 11, 2001 attacks. He also had a small but notable role as the Chinese criminal mastermind Dr. Fu Manchu in Rob Zombie's fake trailer ''Werewolf Women of the S.S.'' from the critically-acclaimed B-movie double feature ''Grindhouse''.
Personal life
In recent years, Cage has experimented in other film-related fields besides acting. He made his directorial debut with ''Sonny'', a low-budget drama starring James Franco as a male prostitute whose mother (Brenda Blethyn) serves as his pimp.1 Cage had a small role in the grim film, which received poor reviews and a short run in a limited number of theatres.
Cage's producing career has seen more success. ''Shadow of the Vampire'', the first film produced by Saturn Films,1 the company he founded with partner Norm Golightly, was nominated for an Academy Award. He also produced ''The Life of David Gale'', a death penalty-themed thriller with Kevin Spacey and Kate Winslet.
In early December 2006, Cage announced at the Bahamas International Film Festival that he would be taking time off from acting. Accordingly, he has eight films currently in the works. Cage said, "I feel I've made a lot of movies already and I want to start exploring other opportunities that I can apply myself to, whether it's writing or other interests that I may develop".[7] Cage is listed as the executive producer of the ''The Dresden Files'' on the Sci-Fi Channel.
In his early 20s, he dated E.G. Daily for two years, and was later involved with Uma Thurman. In 1988, Cage began dating Christina Fulton, mother of their son, Weston Coppola Cage (b. 26 December, 1992); Weston appeared in Cage's film ''Lord of War'' as Vladimir, a young Ukrainian mechanic who quickly disarms a Mil Mi-24 helicopter. Christina is raising their son in Los Angeles CA.
Cage has been married three times:
★ Patricia Arquette (married on April 8, 1995 – divorce finalized May 18, 2001) Cage proposed to her on the day he met her in the early 80s. 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 working through the list of demands, Arquette became scared and avoided him. They met again many years later and went on to marry.
★ Lisa Marie Presley (married on August 10, 2002 and separated after four months in December 2002; their divorce was finalised on May 16, 2004) — the 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.5
★ His third (and current) wife, Korean-American Alice Kim, is a former sushi restaurant waitress, with whom he has a son, Kal-El (born October 3, 2005). She had a minor role in the 2007 movie ''Next'' which he produced.
Cage had a Malibu home where he and Kim lived, but in 2004 he bought a property on Paradise Island, Bahamas. In 2005, he sold his Malibu home for $10 million. In May 2006, he bought a 40-acre island in the Exuma archipelago which had been on the market for $3 million, some 85 miles southeast of Nassau and close to a similar island owned by Faith Hill and Tim McGraw.[8]
On July 19, 2006, Cage bought the old medieval castle of ''Schloss Neidstein'' (see ) in the Oberpfalz region in Germany. His grandmother was German, living in Cochem an der Mosel.[9]
In August, 2007, Cage purchased a home in Middletown, Rhode Island. The 24,000-square foot, brick-and-stone country manor, on 26 secluded acres, has 12 bedrooms, 10 full bathrooms and sweeping views of the Atlantic Ocean from its perch bordering the Norman Bird Sanctuary. Cage sale ranks in the state’s most expensive residential purchases, eclipsed by the $17.15 million sale last December of the Miramar mansion on Bellevue Avenue in Newport.
The name of his second child, Kal-El, is also the birth name of Superman in the DC Comics universe. Nicolas said in a radio interview with Ryan Seacrest that he liked the name Kyle, but his wife wanted a more unique name. Cage is a long-time fan of comics and considers them to be the modern equivalent of mythology. He was once attached to play Superman in a film to be directed by Tim Burton. Cage even did costume fittings, but the project died due to budget and screenplay concerns. Nicolas was director Sam Raimi's first choice to play Norman Osborn/Green Goblin in the movie ''Spider-Man''. (Apparently this was before he met Willem Dafoe.) Cage has a tattoo of Ghost Rider on his body (which, in an ironic twist, had to be covered with makeup when he played the character in a big-budget film adaptation). He has even created a comic book, with his son Weston, called ''Voodoo Child'', which is published by Virgin Comics.
He is an ambassador and a spokesperson for the luxury items manufacturer Mont Blanc. He appears in many of its posters and attends many events.
He loves Pachinko.
Filmography
Nicolas Cage as Fu Manchu in ''Grindhouse''
| Year | Film | Role | U.S. box office gross |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | ''Con Air'' | Cameron Poe | $101,117,573 |
| ''Face/Off'' | Castor Troy/Sean Archer | $112,276,146 | |
| 1998 | ''City of Angels'' | Seth | $78,685,114 |
| ''Snake Eyes'' | Rick Santoro | $55,591,407 | |
| ''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 Campbell | $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 | |
| '' | 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) | $28,142,535 |
| ''The Wicker Man | Edward Malus | $23,649,127 | |
| ''World Trade Center'' | John McLoughlin | $70,236,496 | |
| 2007 | ''Ghost Rider'' | Ghost Rider (Johnny Blaze) | $114,824,199 |
| ''Grindhouse'' | Dr. Fu Manchu - segment ''Werewolf Women of the S.S.'' | $25,031,037 | |
| ''Next'' | Cris Johnson | N/A | |
| ''Bangkok Dangerous'' | |||
| '' | Ben Gates | ||
| ''The Dance | Billy "The Kid" Roth | ||
| 2008 | ''Time Share | ||
| 2009 | ''The Sorcerer's Apprentice'' | Yen Sid |
See also
★ Coppola family tree
External links
★
★
★ World Trade Center Interview with Nicolas Cage From IGN FilmForce
★ Nicolas Cage Ghost Rider video interview with stv.tv/movies
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