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Trivia
Birth name: Nicholas Kim Coppola
Date of birth: 7 January 1964
Place of birth: Long Beach, California, USA
Nickname:
Nick
Height: 6' 1" (1.85 m)
Spouse: Alice Kim (30 July 2004 - present), Lisa Marie Presley (10 August 2002 - 16 May 2004) (divorced), Patricia Arquette (8 April 1995 - 18 May 2001) (divorced).
Half German, half Italian.
Withdrew 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
Kristina Fulton), born in 1992.
Together with actors Lee Marvin (_Cat Ballou
(1818)_ ) and Peter Sellers (Dr. Stranglove), 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) Lee
Marvin is the only one who actually got one for a double role.
Cousin by marriage to 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.
Nick and his wife, Alice Kim, are expecting
their first child [February 15, 2005].
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-Sienna High School in Napa,
California.
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.
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