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Biography for Nicolas CageNicolas Cage (born Jan. 7, 1964 (49 years ago)) is an American actor, known for collaborating many times with movie producer Jerry Bruckheimer.Cage pursued acting as a career, making his debut on TV in 1981 (32 years ago). Cage has been featured in numerous "bad boy" roles, and has won numerous awards, beginning in 1989 (24 years ago) with his Independent Spirit Award, an Academy Award for Best Actor for his lead role in Leaving Las Vegas, and his most recent Toronto movie Critics Association Award in 2002 (11 years ago). Cage has appeared in over 60 movies including Face/Off (1997, 16 years ago), Ghost Rider (2007, 6 years ago), and National Treasure (2004, 9 years ago). Cage has married three times, once to Patricia Arquette, then to Lisa Marie Presley, and most recently to his current wife Alice Kim Cage. Early lifeCage was born Nicolas Kim Coppola in Long Beach, California. His father, Aug. Coppola, is a professor of literature, while Cage's mother, Joy Vogelsang, is a dancer and choreographer; Cage's parents divorced in 1976 (37 years ago). 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 movie producer Gian-Carlo Coppola, and actors Robert Carmine and Jason Schwartzman. Cage's two brothers are Christopher Coppola, a director; and Marc "The Cope" Coppola, a New York radio personality. Cage, who attended Beverly Hills High School (the same high school as fellow entertainers Albert Brooks, Angelina Jolie (146 walls), Lenny Kravitz, Slash, Rob Reiner, Richard Dreyfuss, Bonnie Franklin and David Schwimmer), aspired to act from an early age. Cage also attended UCLA School of Theatre, Film, and TV. His first non-cinematic acting experience was in a school production of Golden Boy. He is also good friends with fellow actor Johnny Depp (9 walls), whom he advised to get into acting.Personal lifeRelationships and familyIn his early 20s, he dated actress/singer Elizabeth Daily for two years, and was later involved with actress Uma Thurman. In 1988 (25 years ago), Cage began dating Christina Fulton, mother of their son, Weston Coppola Cage (born dec. 26, 1990 (23 years ago)). Weston appeared in Cage's movie Lord of War as Vladimir, a young Ukrainian mechanic who quickly disarms a Mil Mi-24 helicopter.Cage has been married three times. His first wife was the actress Patricia Arquette (married on Apr. 8, 1995 (18 years ago) – divorce finalized on May 18, 2001 (12 years ago)). Cage's second wife was singer/songwriter Lisa Marie Presley, the daughter of Elvis Presley, of whom Cage is a fan and on whom he based his performance in Wild at Heart. They married on Aug. 10, 2002 (11 years ago) and filed for divorce on Nov. 25, 2002 (11 years ago), after 108 days of marriage; their divorce was finalized on May 16, 2004 (9 years ago). The divorce proceeding was longer than the marriage. His third and current wife Alice Kim, a former waitress who previously worked at the Los Angeles restaurant Kabuki, met Cage at the Los Angeles-based Korean nightclub, Le Privé. She is the mother of his son, Kal-El (born Oct. 3, 2005 (8 years ago)), named after Superman's birth name. Cage was once considered for the role of Superman in a movie to be directed by Tim Burton. Alice had a minor role in the 2007 (6 years ago) movie Next, which Cage produced. They were married at a private ranch in Northern California on Jul. 30, 2004 (9 years ago). Real estate holdingsCage had a Malibu home where he and Alice lived, but in 2004 (9 years ago) he bought a property on Paradise Island, Bahamas. In 2005 (8 years ago), he sold his Malibu home for $10 million. In May 2006 (7 years ago), he bought a 40-acre (160,000 m2) island in the Exuma archipelago, some 85 miles (137 km) southeast of Nassau and close to a similar island owned by Faith Hill (7 walls) and Tim McGraw.He used to own the medieval castle of Schloss Neidstein in the Oberpfalz region in Germany, which he bought in 2006 (7 years ago) and sold in 2009 (4 years ago) for $2.5 million. His grandmother was German, living in Cochem an der Mosel. In Aug. 2007 (6 years ago), Cage purchased a home in Middletown, Rhode Island. The 24,000-square-foot (2,200 m2), brick-and-stone country manor occupies 26 acres, has 12 bedrooms, 10 full bathrooms, and ocean views and borders the Norman Bird Sanctuary. The estate is called the "Grey Craig". The sale ranks among the state’s most expensive residential purchases, eclipsed by the $17.15 million sale last dec. of the Miramar mansion on Bellevue Avenue in Newport. Also in 2007 (6 years ago), the actor purchased Midford Castle in Somerset, England. According to Cage, he owns the "Most Haunted House in America", a home located in the French Quarter of New Orleans, Louisiana. The home is known as the "The LaLaurie house" after its former owner Delphine LaLaurie. Shortly after selling his German castle, Cage also put homes in Rhode Island, Lousiana, Nevada, and California, as well as a $7 million island in the Bahamas, up for sale. On Jul. 14, 2009 (4 years ago), the Internal Revenue Service filed documents in New Orleans in connection with a federal tax lien against property owned by Cage in Louisiana, concerning unpaid federal taxes. The IRS alleges that Cage failed to pay over $6.2 million in federal income tax for the year 2007 (6 years ago). Other interestsNicolas was director Sam Raimi's first choice to play Norman Osborn/Green Goblin in the movie Spider-Man. He has created a comic book, with his son Weston, called Voodoo Child, which is published by Virgin Comics.Cage was close friends with Ramones guitarist Johnny Ramone. His enthusiam of classic cars is well known; in 1997 (16 years ago) via telephone bid, he broke the auction record for Lamborghinis when he placed a bid on a rare Miura SVJ for US$490,000. He has also been a fan and collector of painter and underground comix artist Robert Williams. He has written introductions for Juxtapoz magazine and purchased the painting Death On The Boards. CareerIn order to avoid the appearance of nepotism as the nephew of Francis Ford Coppola, he changed his name from Nicolas Coppola to Nicolas Cage early in his career. Since his cameo role in the movie Fast Times at Ridgemont High, with Sean Penn, Cage has appeared in a wide range of films, both mainstream and offbeat. He tried out for the role of Dallas Winston in his uncle's movie The Outsiders, based on S.E. Hinton's novel, but lost to Matt Dillon. He was also in Coppola's movies Rumble Fish and Peggy Sue Got Married.Other Cage roles included appearances in the acclaimed 1987 (26 years ago) romantic-comedy Moonstruck, also starring Cher; The Coen Brothers cult-classic comedy Raising Arizona; David Lynch's 1990 (23 years ago) offbeat movie Wild at Heart; a lead role in Martin Scorsese's 1999 (14 years ago) New York City paramedic drama Bringing Out the Dead; and Ridley Scott's 2003 (10 years ago) quirky drama Matchstick Men, in which he played an agoraphobic, mysophobic, obsessive-compulsive con artist with a tic disorder. Cage has been nominated twice for an Academy Award, winning once for his performance as a suicidal alcoholic in Leaving Las Vegas. His other nomination was for his portrayal of real-life screenwriter Charlie Kaufman and Kaufman's fictional twin Donald in Adaptation. Despite these successes, most of his lower-profile movies have performed poorly at the box office compared to his mainstream action/adventure roles. The suspense thriller 8mm (1999, 14 years ago) was not a box office success, but is now considered a cult film. He took the lead role in the 2001 (12 years ago) movie Captain Corelli's Mandolin and learned to play the mandolin from scratch for the part. In 2005 (8 years ago), two offbeat movies he headlined, Lord of War and The Weather Man, failed to find a significant audience despite nationwide releases and good reviews for his acting in those roles. Poor reviews for The Wicker Man resulted in low box office sales. The much criticized Ghost Rider (2007, 6 years ago), based on the Marvel (19 walls) Comics character, was a significant hit, earning more than $45 million (the top earner) during its opening weekend and over $208 million worldwide through the weekend ending on Mar. 25, 2007 (6 years ago). Also in 2007 (6 years ago), he starred in Next, which shares the concept of a glimpse into an alternate timeline with The Family Man (2000, 13 years ago). Most of Cage's movies that have achieved financial success were in the action/adventure genre. In his second-highest grossing movie to date, National Treasure, he plays an eccentric historian who goes on a dangerous adventure to find treasure hidden by the Founding Fathers of the United States. Other action hits include The Rock, in which Cage plays a young FBI chemical weapons expert who infiltrates Alcatraz Island in hopes of neutralizing a terrorist threat, Face/Off, a John Woo movie where he plays both a hero and a villain, and World Trade Center, director Oliver Stone's movie regarding the sep. 11, 2001 (12 years ago) attacks. He had a small but notable role as the Chinese criminal mastermind Dr. Fu Manchu in Rob Zombie's fake trailer Werewolf Women of the S.S. from the B-movie double feature Grindhouse. In recent years, Cage made his directorial debut with Sonny, a low-budget drama starring James Franco as a male prostitute whose mother (Brenda Blethyn) serves as his pimp. Cage had a small role in the grim film, which received poor reviews and a short run in a limited number of theatres. Cage's producing career includes Shadow of the Vampire, the first movie from Saturn Films. In early dec. 2006 (7 years ago), Cage announced at the Bahamas International movie Festival that he planned to curtail his future acting endeavors in order to pursue other interests. On the The Dresden Files for the Sci-Fi Channel, Cage is listed as the executive producer. Cage said: I feel I've made a lot of movies already and I want to start exploring other opportunities that I can apply myself to, whether it's writing or other interests that I may develop. In Nov. 2007 (6 years ago), Cage was spotted backstage at a Ring of Honor wrestling show in New York City researching his role for the The Wrestler. Ultimately, Nicolas Cage was replaced in "The Wrestler" with Mickey Rourke, in a role that has earned a Best Actor Academy Award nomination for Rourke. Wrestler Director Darren Aronofsky, in an interview with slashfilm.com, said of Cage's replacement that: Nic was a complete gentleman, and he understood that my heart was with Mickey and he stepped aside. I have so much respect for Nic Cage as an actor and I think it really could have worked with Nic but... you know, Nic was incredibly supportive of Mickey and he is old friends with Mickey and really wanted to help with this opportunity, so he pulled himself out of the race. In 2008 (5 years ago), Cage appeared as Joe, a contract killer who undergoes a change of heart while on a work outing in Bangkok, in the movie Bangkok Dangerous. The movie is shot by the Pang Brothers and has a distinct South-East Asian flavor. In 2009 (4 years ago), Cage starred in sci-fi thriller Knowing, directed by Alex Proyas. In the film, he plays an MIT professor who examines the contents of a time capsule unearthed at his son's elementary school. Startling predictions found inside the capsule that have already come true lead him to believe the world is going to end at the close of the week, and that he and his son are somehow involved in the destruction. The movie received mainly negative reviews but was the box office winner on its opening weekend. Cage will appear in the movie Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans directed by acclaimed German director Werner Herzog and will portray a corrupt police officer with gambling, drug and alcohol addictions. This movie will also reunite Cage with Eva Mendes (113 walls), who played his love interest in "Ghost Rider." Cage will also star in the period piece Season of the Witch, playing a 14th-century knight transporting a girl accused of causing the Black Plague to a monastery, and The Sorcerer's Apprentice, in which he will play the sorcerer. It is rumored that he will star in National Treasure 3, which has a possible release date as early as 2011 (2 years ago). He would again take the role of Benjamin Gates, a cryptologist-turned-treasure hunter. Filmography
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