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Nicolas Cage: Francis Ford Coppola
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Nicolas Cage was born Nicolas Kim Coppola on January 7, 1964, in Long Beach, California. The son of August Coppola and Joy Vogelsang, Cage is ... the nephew of Hollywood director Francis Ford Coppola. After having worked on several films, Cage decided he did not want to use his family name because of the expectations attached to it.
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In early December 2006, Nicolas Cage announced at the Bahamas International Film Festival that he would be taking time off from acting. Nicolas Cage is listed as the executive producer of the ‘The Dresden Files’ on the Sci-Fi Channel. At a personal level, his father, August Floyd Coppola, is a comparative literature professor and a pioneer of studies for the blind. On the other hand, his German mother, Joy Vogelsang, is a choreographer and dancer. Nicolas Cage's father is an Italian American, with his paternal grandparents being Carmine Coppola and Italia Coppola, an actress. He is ... the nephew of director Francis Ford Coppola and actress Talia Shire, as well as the cousin of director Sofia Coppola and actors Robert Carmine and Jason Schwartzman.
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Nicolas Cage made his film debut in Fast Times at Ridgemont High, made when he was 17, and in the credits he is listed by his given name, Nicolas Coppola -- his uncle is Francis Ford Coppola. He changed his name to Nicolas Cage, and appeared in three films directed by his uncle Rumble Fish (1983), The Cotton Club (1984), and Peggy Sue Got Married (1986). He won an Oscar for his 1995 performance in Leaving Las Vegas, drinking himself to death on a Vegas vacation.
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Ever since Valley Girl he's been credited as Nicolas Cage instead of Nicolas Coppola. Nicolas Cage did this to avoid charges of nepotism as the name led to immediate association with Nicolas Cage's uncle, The Godfather director Francis Ford Coppola. The name Cage is a reference to Luke Cage, an insecure African American superhero from the Marvel comics universe whom.
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