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Nicolas Cage
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Nicolas Cage Biography
Birth name - Nicholas Kim Coppola
Date of birth - January 7, 1964
Long Beach, California, USA
Nickname - Nick
Height - 6' 1" (1.85 m)
The son of comparative literature professor August Coppola (a brother of director Francis Ford Coppola) and dancer/choreographer Joy Vogelsang, Cage changed his name early in his career to make his own reputation, succeeding brilliantly with a host of classic, quirky roles by the late 1980s.
Initially studying theatre at Beverly Hills High (though he dropped out at 17), he secured a bit part in Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982) -- most of which was cut, dashing his hopes and leading to a job selling popcorn at the Fairfax Theater, thinking that would be the only route to a movie career. But a job reading lines with auditioners for uncle Francis's Rumble Fish (1983) landed him a role in that film, followed by the punk-rocker in Valley Girl (1983) which was released first and truly launched his career.
His one-time passion for method acting reached a personal limit when he smashed a street-vendor's remote-control car to achieve the sense of rage needed for his gangster character in The Cotton Club (1984).
In his early 20s, he dated Jenny Wright for two years, later linked to Uma Thurman. After a relationship of several years with Christina Fulton, a model, they split amicably and share custody of a son, Weston Coppola Cage (b.1992).
Spouse
Alice Kim (30 July 2004 - present) 1 child
Lisa Marie Presley (10 August 2002 - 16 May 2004) (divorced)
Patricia Arquette (8 April 1995 - 18 May 2001) (divorced)More Interesting Information for Nicolas Cage
Half German, half Italian.
Sometimes Credited As:
Nicholas Cage / Nicolas CoppolaWithdrew his divorce papers that were filed in February. [April 2000]
Ranked #40 in Empire (UK) magazine's "The Top 100 Movie Stars of All Time" list. [October 1997]
Was engaged to Kristen Zang.
Nephew of Francis Ford Coppola.
Nephew of Talia Shire.
Got Johnny Depp his first acting job.
Close friends with Tom Waits.
Stage name taken from comic book character Luke Cage.
Owns a Lamborghini that used to belong to the Shah of Iran.
Brother of Marc Coppola and Christopher Coppola.
Grandson of Carmine Coppola.
Proposed to Patricia Arquette on the day he met her in the early 80s. Arquette thought he was a bit strange but played along with his antics by creating a list of things Cage would have to fulfil to win her. When he started to work his way through the list, Arquette got scared and avoided him. They met again many years later and later went on to marry.
He lives in a fake castle on the outskirts LA. He wants to import an authentic one from overseas. [1997]
Loves to improvise, ocassionally to the annoyance of other cast members.
Collects comic books and sees them as being today's equivalent of mythology.
The Wild at Heart (1990) movie poster lists his name as both "Nicolas Cage" and "Nicholas Cage".
Ranked #37 in Premiere's 100 most powerful people in Hollywood in 1998.
Listed as one of twelve "Promising New Actors of 1984" in John Willis' Screen World, Vol. 36. [1984]
Cousin of Jason Schwartzman.
Suffers from vertigo.
Tim Burton cast Cage in his doomed Superman project. Cage even did fittings of the costume.
Ate a live roach in Vampire's Kiss (1989).
On his upper back he has a tattoo of monitor lizard with a top hat.
Announced that he is dating Lisa Marie Presley, daughter of the late Elvis Presley. [Summer 2001]
Cousin of Robert Schwartzman, who changed his name to Robert Schwartzman-Cage inspired by Nicolas.
Given an Honory Doctorate in Fine Arts by California State University, Fullerton in May, 2001. Cage spoke at the commencement.
Father August Coppola, formerly a professor at Cal State Long Beach and Dean of Creative Arts at San Francisco State University
During an A&E Biography on him, the host explained that Nicolas was Director Sam Raimi's first choice to play Norman Osborn/Green Goblin in the movie Spider-Man (2002). Apparently this was before he met Willem Dafoe.
Graduated UCLA School of Theater, Film, and Television.
Cousin of Sofia Coppola and Roman Coppola.
On "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno" (1992), he told Jay that he took the name "Cage" from a comic book character named Luke Cage, the "first black superhero". When asked which of the powers he would prefer to have, he said flight was his desire.
Has a son, Weston Coppola-Cage (with actress Christina Fulton), born 26 December, 1990.
Together with actors Lee Marvin (Cat Ballou (1965)) and Peter Sellers (_Dr. Stranglove (1964)_ ) , he is the only actor with an Oscar nomination for playing multiple characters in a film (in Adaptation. (2002), he plays two characters, Donald and Charlie). Marvin is the only one who actually won one for a double role.
Former cousin, by marriage, of director Spike Jonze.
Met wife Alice Kim at a sushi bar where she was a waitress. She was only 20-years-old at the time they married.
Went to the same High School as Angelina Jolie, Michael Klesic, Lenny Kravitz, David Schwimmer, Jonathan Silverman, Gina Gershon, Rhonda Fleming, Jackie Cooper, Rob Reiner, Antonio Sabato Jr., Pauly Shore, Michael Tolkin, Betty White, Corbin Bernsen, Elizabeth Daily, Albert Brooks and Crispin Glover.
Close friends with Crispin Glover.
Ate a real cockroach in the film Vampire's Kiss (1989), it reportedly took three takes. He once said about the experience, "Every muscle in my body didn't want to do it, but I did it anyway."
Attended Justin-Siena High School in Napa, California. During the early 80s.
His is (along with his cousin Sofia Coppola) the third generation of Oscar winners in the Coppola family. His uncle, Francis Ford Coppola and his grandfather, Carmine Coppola, are the other two generations. They are the second family to do so, the first family is the Hustons - Anjelica Huston, John Huston and Walter Huston.
Nick and his wife, Alice, had a son, Kal-el Coppola Cage, on October 3, 2005 in New York City. Just as Nick was named after a comic book character, Luke Cage, so has he named his son after the comic book character Kal-el (aka Superman).
Trains in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu under Royce Gracie
David Lynch referred to him as the "Jazz musician of acting"
Personal quotes from Nicolas Cage
"To be a good actor you have to be something like a criminal, to be willing to break the rules to strive for something new."
"There's a fine line between the Method actor and the schizophrenic."
"I am not a demon. I am a lizard, a shark, a heat-seeking panther. I want to be Bob Denver on acid playing the accordion."
"I'm sad about this, but we shouldn't have been married in the first place." - about his marriage to Lisa Marie Presley.
"Hollywood didn't know if I was an actor or a nut or if I was this crazy character I was playing. I had developed an image of being a little bit unusual, different and wild."
"I'm at the point now where I know I'm doing something right when a movie gets mixed reviews, because then I'm not in the box. I don't want to make it too easy for people and I don't want to make it too easy for myself. I want to try something unusual. I feel good about the bad reviews because I feel like I've affected them on some level. They may not know what I was trying to do but they felt something"
"I want to make all kinds of movies. I do want to make big movies that are a lot of fun to go to, but I also want to make movies that are going to stimulate some thought and maybe raise some awareness. And so please don't think you're gonna go on a roller-coaster ride with those movies."
"It's very risky for an actor who's a bankable star to make pictures like The Weather Man (2005) or Lord of War (2005) [also in current release], because they inevitably promote them like big studio releases. And they're not big studio movies, they're more edgy, thought-provoking, independent-spirited films. What happens is, it goes into the computer, and everyone says they can't open the movie because they thought it was X when it actually was Y".
"I needed to change my name just to liberate myself and find out I could do it without walking into a Hollywood casting office with the name Coppola."
Nicolas Cage Filmography
Actor - filmography
(In Production) (2000s) (1990s) (1980s)
Time Share (2008)
Plot Outline: When two families are booked for the same time share, both fathers
(Cage and Smith) square off against one another.The Dance (2008) .... Billy 'The Kid' Roth
Plot Outline: A dramatization of the life of one-time champion prize fighter Billy
"The Kid" Roth, who has volunteered as a boxing coach for over 40 years in the prisons
of Louisiana.Electric God (2007)
Plot Outline: A man who lives a life of isolation finds a solution to his violent temper
when he's forced to reach out to others.Amarillo Slim (2008)
National Treasure 2 (2007) .... Ben Gates
Next (2007) .... Cris Johnson
Plot Outline: A man who can see into his own future has to avoid capture by a government
organization and win the love of a woman who will be the mother of his child.Ghost Rider (2007) .... Johnny Blaze/Ghost Rider
Plot Outline: Based on the Marvel character, stunt motorcyclist Johnny Blaze gives up
his soul to become a hellblazing vigilante, to fight against power hungry Blackheart,
the son of the devil himself.The Wicker Man (2006) .... Edward Maulis
Plot Outline: A sheriff investigating the disappearance of a young girl from a small island
discovers there's a larger mystery to solve among the island's secretive, neo-pagan community.World Trade Center (2006) .... John McLoughlin
Plot Outline: Two Port Authority police officers become trapped under the rubble of the World
Trade Center.The Ant Bully (2006) (voice) .... Zoc
Plot Outline: After Lucas Nickle floods an ant colony with his watergun, he's magically
shrunken down to insect size and sentenced to hard labor in the ruins.
The Weather Man (2005) .... David Spritz
Lord of War (2005) .... Yuri Orlov
National Treasure (2004) .... Ben Gates
... aka Sonomo (Philippines: English title: review title)
Matchstick Men (2003) .... Roy Waller
Adaptation. (2002) .... Charlie Kaufman/Donald Kaufman
Sonny (2002) .... Acid Yellow
Windtalkers (2002) .... Sergeant Joe Enders
Christmas Carol: The Movie (2001) (voice) .... Jacob Marley
... aka Weihnachtsmärchen, Ein (Germany)
Captain Corelli's Mandolin (2001) .... Captain Antonio Corelli
... aka Capitaine Corelli (France)
The Family Man (2000) .... Jack Campbell
Gone in Sixty Seconds (2000) .... Randall 'Memphis' Raines
Bringing Out the Dead (1999) .... Frank Pierce
8MM (1999) .... Tom Welles
... aka 8mm - Acht Millimeter (Germany)
Snake Eyes (1998) .... Rick Santoro
City of Angels (1998) .... Seth
... aka Stadt der Engel (Germany)
Face/Off (1997) .... Castor Troy/Sean Archer
... aka Face Off
Con Air (1997) .... Cameron Poe
The Rock (1996) .... Dr. Stanley Goodspeed
Leaving Las Vegas (1995) .... Ben Sanderson
... aka Leaving Las Vegas (France)
Kiss of Death (1995/I) .... Little Junior Brown
Trapped in Paradise (1994) .... Bill Firpo
It Could Happen to You (1994) .... Charlie Lang
Guarding Tess (1994) .... Doug Chesnic
Amos & Andrew (1993) .... Amos Odell
Deadfall (1993) .... Eddie
"Saturday Night Live"
... aka SNL
... aka SNL 25 (USA: new title)
- Episode #18.1 (1992) TV Episode .... Host
Honeymoon in Vegas (1992) .... Jack Singer
Red Rock West (1992) .... Michael Williams
Zandalee (1991) .... Johnny
Wild at Heart (1990) .... Sailor
... aka David Lynch's Wild at Heart (USA)
Fire Birds (1990) .... Jake Preston
... aka Wings of the Apache
Tempo di uccidere (1990) .... Enrico Silvestri
... aka Raccourci, Le (France)
... aka The Short Cut
... aka Time to Kill
Industrial Symphony No. 1: The Dream of the Broken Hearted (1990) (TV) .... Heartbreaker
Vampire's Kiss (1989) .... Peter Loew
Never on Tuesday (1988) (uncredited) .... Man in Red Sports Car
Moonstruck (1987) .... Ronny Cammareri
Raising Arizona (1987) .... H.I. McDunnough
Peggy Sue Got Married (1986) .... Charlie Bodell
The Boy in Blue (1986) .... Ned Hanlan
Birdy (1984) .... Sergeant Al Columbato
The Cotton Club (1984) .... Vincent Dwyer
Racing with the Moon (1984) .... Nicky/Bud
Rumble Fish (1983) .... Smokey
Valley Girl (1983) .... Randy
... aka Bad Boyz
... aka College Lovers (Philippines: English title)
... aka Rebel Dreams (video title)
Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982) (as Nicolas Coppola) .... Brad's Bud
Best of Times (1981) (TV)
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Mr. David Parker never thought a trip down a lonely country road would lead him to a unexplainable love for somebody whom he never met before. But there was only one problem, she died three years earlier. The events that followed him after that fateful night would make David feel emotions he could not explain. The love which came upon him was very unexplainable and would forever change his belief in how he viewed the paranormal world. After a lifetime of being hurt by love will his search for the truth enable him to love once again or would it lead him down a mysterious dark road of uncertainly hidden within the truth.
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