Nicolas Cage is an Academy Award-winning American actor. Nicolas Cage was born on January 7, 1964 in Long Beach, Calif., USA. He was born as Nicholas Kim Coppola he is well known as Nick. His father, August Coppola was writer and mother, Joy Vogelsang was dancer. Nicolas Cage has two brothers, Christopher Coppola (director) was born on January 25, 1962 and Marc Coppola (actor) was born in 1958. His grand father, Carmine Flautist Coppola was composer, musical arranger. His grandmother, Italia Coppola was actress. His uncle, Francis Ford Coppola was director, producer, screenwriter and his aunt, Talia Shire was actress.
Nicols Cage married three times. On April 8, 1995, he married with Patricia Arquette and divorced on 18 May 2001. After first divorce, he married with Lisa Marie Presley on 10 August 2002 and divorced on 16 May 2004. And presently he married with Alice Kim on 30 July 2004. Nicolas Cage has a child; Kal-el Coppola Cage was born on October 3, 2005 in New York City by Alice Kim.
Nicolas Cage changed his name because he want to show his intelegence without benefiting from his uncle's reputation. The name was taken from comic book character Luke Cage. He is a big fan of comic books. He has a tattoo of monitor lizard with a top hat on his upper back. In 1982, Nicolas Cage's first movie "Fast Times at Ridgemont High" was released. In this movie, he played a role as Brad's Bud. In 1983, his two notable movies, "Rumble Fish" and "Valley Girl" were released.
In 1995, he won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his role in "Leaving Las Vegas". Figgis directed this movie and Nicolas Cage played a role as Ben Sanderson. In 1999, Nicolas Cage started his own Production Company called Saturn Films. Initially, Jeff Levine was his partner in this company.
Favorites of Nicolas Cage:
- Favorite word: Grace
- Least favorite word: Stop
- Favorite cuss word/phrase: Horseshit
- Favorite movie: A Clockwork Orange
