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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 26 December, 1990.
Together with actors Lee Marvin (Cat Ballou (1965)) and Peter Sellers (_Dr. Stranglove (1964)_ ) , 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). Marvin is the only one who actually won 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.
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-Siena High School in Napa, California. During the early 80s.
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.
Nick and his wife, Alice, had a son, Kal-el Coppola Cage, on October 3, 2005 in New York City. Just as Nick was named after a comic book character, Luke Cage, so has he named his son after the comic book character Kal-el (aka Superman).
Trains in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu under Royce Gracie
David Lynch referred to him as the "Jazz musician of acting"
Personal quotes
"To be a good actor you have to be something like a criminal, to be willing to break the rules to strive for something new."
"There's a fine line between the Method actor and the schizophrenic."
"I am not a demon. I am a lizard, a shark, a heat-seeking panther. I want to be Bob Denver on acid playing the accordion."
"I'm sad about this, but we shouldn't have been married in the first place." - about his marriage to Lisa Marie Presley.
"Hollywood didn't know if I was an actor or a nut or if I was this crazy character I was playing. I had developed an image of being a little bit unusual, different and wild."
"I'm at the point now where I know I'm doing something right when a movie gets mixed reviews, because then I'm not in the box. I don't want to make it too easy for people and I don't want to make it too easy for myself. I want to try something unusual. I feel good about the bad reviews because I feel like I've affected them on some level. They may not know what I was trying to do but they felt something"
"I want to make all kinds of movies. I do want to make big movies that are a lot of fun to go to, but I also want to make movies that are going to stimulate some thought and maybe raise some awareness. And so please don't think you're gonna go on a roller-coaster ride with those movies."
"It's very risky for an actor who's a bankable star to make pictures like The Weather Man (2005) or Lord of War (2005) [also in current release], because they inevitably promote them like big studio releases. And they're not big studio movies, they're more edgy, thought-provoking, independent-spirited films. What happens is, it goes into the computer, and everyone says they can't open the movie because they thought it was X when it actually was Y".
"I needed to change my name just to liberate myself and find out I could do it without walking into a Hollywood casting office with the name Coppola."
Salary
Adaptation. (2002) $2,000,000
Windtalkers (2002) $20,000,000
Captain Corelli's Mandolin (2001) $7,000,000
Gone in Sixty Seconds (2000) $20,000,000
Bringing Out the Dead (1999) $1,000,000
Snake Eyes (1998) $16,000,000
Face/Off (1997) $6,000,000
The Rock (1996) $4,000,000
Leaving Las Vegas (1995) $240,000
Valley Girl (1983) $5,000.00
Biography from Leonard Maltin's Movie Encyclopedia:
Nicolas Coppola, the nephew of director Francis Ford Coppola, changed his name to avoid coasting on his famous uncle's coattails. Tall, with thick eyebrows and an everpresent hangdog countenance, Cage was one of the 1980s' least-likely stars, making his film debut in Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982), then landing a leading role in the independent hit Valley Girl (1983). He subsequently appeared in Rumble Fish (1983), Racing With the Moon, The Cotton Club, Birdy (all 1984), The Boy in Blue (1986), and Peggy Sue Got Married (also 1986, as Kathleen Turner's boyfriend and husband), directed by his uncle. Two 1987 performances, as the hapless, goodhearted bandit in Raising Arizona and Cher's reluctant beau in Moonstruck solidified Cage's box-office standing. He briefly turned action hero in the war drama Fire Birds (1990), but was much more comfortable as the Elvis-like drifter in Wild at Heart (1990), a sex-crazed creep in Zandalee (1991), and a farcically put-upon bridegroom-to-be in Honeymoon in Vegas (1992). Recent films include Amos & Andrew, Deadfall (both 1993, the latter directed by his brother Christopher Coppola), Guarding Tess, Red Rock West, Trapped in Paradise (all 1994), and the remake of Kiss of Death (1995, in the Richard Widmark role). Cage seems more interested in pursuing offbeat, even eccentric projects than in attaining superstardom; any man who would eat a live cockroach on camera (as he did in 1989's Vampire's Kiss) is clearly ready to give his all for his art. |
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