Nicolas Kim Coppola, known professionally as Nicolas Cage, is an American actor and filmmaker. He won an Academy Award, a Golden Globe, and Screen Actors Guild Award for his performance in Leaving Las Vegas. In October 1997, Cage was ranked No. 40 in Empire magazine’s The Top 100 Movie Stars of All Time list.
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Nicolas Kim Coppola, known professionally as Nicolas Cage, is an American actor and filmmaker. Cage has been nominated for numerous major cinematic awards, and won an Academy Award, a Golden Globe, and Screen Actors Guild Award for his performance in Leaving Las Vegas. In October 1997, Cage was ranked No. 40 in Empire magazine’s The Top 100 Movie Stars of All Time list. In the 2010s, he starred in Joe, Dog Eat Dog, Mom and Dad, Mandy, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse and Color Out of Space. Cage owns the production company Saturn Films and has produced films such as Shadow of the Vampire and The Life of David Gale. He is a nephew of director Francis Ford Coplola and of actress Talia Shire, and the cousin of directors Roman Coppolas and Sofia Coppla. He has appeared in a wide range of films, both mainstream and offbeat. He said he started acting because he wanted to be James Dean. He auditioned for the role of Dallas Winston in his uncle’s film The Outsiders, based on S. E. Hinton’s novel, but lost to Matt Dillon. He was born in Long Beach, California, to an Italian father and a Polish mother. He changed his name early in his career to Cage, inspired in part by the Marvel Comics superhero Luke Cage. To avoid the appearance of nepotism, he changed his first name to Nicolas Cage to avoid appearing nepotistic.
His father was of Italian descent and his mother was of German and Polish ancestry, and his paternal great-grandparents were immigrants from Bernalda, Basilicata. He attended Beverly Hills High School, which is known for its many alumni who became entertainers. He aspired to act from an early age and also attended UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television. His first non-cinematic acting experience was in a school production of Golden Boy. He tried to convince his uncle to give him a screen test, telling him: \”I’ll show you acting.\” His outburst was met with \”silence in the car\”. By this stage of his career, he had already directed Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, Gene Hackman and Robert De Niro. He also directed the film Sonny, for which he was nominated for Grand Special Prize at Deauville Film Festival. He starred in Raising Arizona, Moonstruck, Vampire’s Kiss and Peggy Sue Got Married. He appeared in the Coen Brothers’ 1990 romantic comedy Raise Arizona; David Lynch’s 1990 romantic Brothers’ cult film Wild at Heart; a lead role in Martin Scorsese’s 1999 film Bringing Out the Dead; and Ridley Scott’s 1999 crime drama Bringing Out The Dead. His other films include The 8mm Man and The Matchstick Men. His most recent role was in The 8-mm Man, in which he played a con artist with obsessive-compulsive disorder.
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