Nicolas Cage

Nicolas Cage (born Nicolas Kim Coppola; January 7, 1964) is an American actor.

Cage pursued acting as a career, making his debut on television in 1981. Cage has been featured in “bad boy” roles, and has won awards, beginning in 1989 with his Independent Spirit Award, an Academy Award for Best Actor for his lead role in Leaving Las Vegas, and his most recent Toronto Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor in 2002 for Adaptation.

Cage has appeared in over 60 films including Face/Off (1997), Ghost Rider (2007), and National Treasure (2004). Cage has been married three times: to Patricia Arquette, Lisa Marie Presley, and to his current wife, Alice Kim Cage.

Cage was born in Long Beach, California. His father, August Coppola, was a professor of literature, while Cage’s mother, Joy Vogelsang, is a dancer and choreographer; Cage’s parents divorced in 1976. Cage’s mother is of German descent and his father is of Italian descent (his paternal great-grandparents were immigrants from Bernalda, Basilicata). His paternal grandparents were Carmine Coppola, a composer, 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 directors Roman Coppola and Sofia Coppola, late film producer Gian-Carlo Coppola, and actors Robert Carmine and Jason Schwartzman.