Nicolas Cage
About
Longtime actor who won the Academy Award for Best Actor in 1995 for his role in Leaving Las Vegas. He has also starred in such films as Gone in 60 Seconds, The Rock, National Treasure, Adaptation and Kick-Ass.
Before Fame
He sold popcorn at a Los Angeles theater after dropping out of high school at age seventeen. He attended UCLA's School of Theater, Film, and Television.
Trivia
He briefly appears in the 1982 film Fast Times at Ridgemont High, working at a burger shop, but he has no dialogue in the movie. He provided the voice for Grug in the movie The Croods.
Family Life
His uncle is director Francis Ford Coppola. His brothers are Marc and Christopher Coppola. He was married to Patricia Arquette from 1995 to 2001 and Lisa Marie Presley from 2002 to 2004, and he married Alice Kim in 2004. He has sons named Weston and Kal-El. He married Riko Shibata in 2021. In January 2022 it was announced that Nicolas and Riko were expecting their first child together. Their daughter named August was born in September of 2022.
Associated With
In one of his early prominent roles, he plays Smokey in the Francis Ford Coppola film Rumble Fish, which stars Matt Dillon.
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