Nicolas Cage Biography

Nicolas Cage

Nicolas Cage (* 7 Jan, 1964 in Long Beach, California; actually Nicholas Kim Coppola) is an actor. He is the nephew of film director and producer Francis Ford Coppola and actress Talia Shire.

Life

His father is Italo-Americans August Coppola, his German mother, the dancer and choreographer Joy Vogelsang, comes from Leamington, on the Mosel. Nicolas Cage is already interested in his earliest childhood for the movie business. With 15 years of professional, he took acting lessons. Two years later he broke the high school in order to concentrate on his career.

His screen debut in 1982, he gave the comedy, I believe, I stand 'in the woods. A short time later he changed his surname to Cage (after the comic book character Luke Cage, or the musician John Cage), not in the shadow of his famous uncle Francis Ford Coppola to stand. This gave him 1983 with a role in Rumble Fish.

After completing the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television he was in the films The Cotton Club, Valley Girl, Peggy Sue has married and Arizona junior to see. The breakthrough he succeeded the late 1980s with the Oscar-winning comedy Addicted moon and in David Lynch's Wild at Heart, as the best film of the Cannes Film Festival 1990 has been impeccable.

1996 received Cage Leaving Las Vegas for the Oscar for Best Actor and married actress Patricia Arquette.

The films The Rock - Rock of the decision, Con Air, Face / Off - The body of the enemy and Only 60 seconds gave him in subsequent years, four of his greatest successes at the box office. 1998, he played alongside Meg Ryan in City of Angels, a Neuverfilmung of the Wim Wenders film Wings of Desire.

2001 he obtained distinguished Patricia Arquette. 2002, he married Lisa Marie Presley, daughter of Elvis Presley, from his four months later separated.

Also In 2002 he received for adaptation. again an Oscar nomination. To see, he was also in the adventure film The legacy of the Knights Templar. In 2006 came the films Lord of War and World Trade Center in German cinemas.

Nicolas Cage is the third marriage to Alice Kim married. From a relationship with the model Kristina Fulton, he has a son. His current wife has him on 3 October 2005 his second son was born Kal El, named after the American crypto behalf of Superman. Cage is an avowed comic book fan. In some films, in which players Cage, Alice Kim took a cameo appearance, such as Next, in which they are in a magic trick, a woman from the audience plays.

In 2006 Nicolas Cage took over the seat of the free reign lords of fire, stone castle envy in Etzel Wang at Ahmadabad (Upper). In addition, he owns a Bahamainsel. His German Synchro voice is predominantly him by Martin Kessler, who in the film Wild at Heart, however, by Rolf Zacher, in adaptation. Ronald Nitschke and in Leaving Las Vegas by Michael Christian.

Cage still counts, according to the American Forbes Magazine to the best-paid male actors in Hollywood. Between June 2007 and June 2008, he received fees amounting to 38 million U.S. dollars and ranks behind Will Smith, Johnny Depp, Eddie Murphy, Mike Myers, Leonardo DiCaprio, Bruce Willis and Ben Stiller to place eight.

Filmography

* 1982: I believe that I stand 'in the woods (Fast Times at Ridgemont High)
* 1983: Rumble Fish
* 1983: The Valley Girl
* 1984: Birdy
* 1984: The verrinnt time, the Navy calls (Racing With The Moon)
* 1984: The Cotton Club (The Cotton Club)
* 1986: Peggy Sue has been married (Peggy Sue Got Married)
* 1986: final sprint to victory (The Boy in Blue)
* 1987: Addicted Moon (Moon Struck)
* 1987: Arizona Junior (Raising Arizona)
* 1988: The Highway Trio (Never on Tuesday)
* 1989: Vampire's Kiss
* 1990: Airborne - wings of steel (Firebirds)
* 1990: Wild at Heart - The story of Sailor and Lula (Wild at Heart)
* 1990: Tempo di uccidere
* 1991: Zandalee - The Sixth Commandment (Zandalee)
* 1992: Honeymoon in Vegas - but not with my bride (Honeymoon in Vegas)
* 1993: Red Rock West
* 1993: Deadfall
* 1993: Amos & Andrew - Two almost perfect anarchists (Amos & Andrew)
* 1994: 2 million U.S. dollars gratuity (It Could Happen To You)
* 1994: Tess and her bodyguard (Guarding Tess)
* 1994: Snow storm in paradise (Trapped in Paradise)
* 1995: Kiss Of Death
* 1995: Leaving Las Vegas
* 1996: The Rock - Rock of the decision (The Rock)
* 1997: Con Air
* 1997: Face / Off - The body of the enemy
* 1998: Game on time (Snake Eyes)
* 1998: City of Angels (City of Angels)
* 1999: 8mm - Eight millimeters (8MM)
* 1999: Bringing Out The Dead - Nights of Remembrance
* 2000: Only 60 seconds (Gone in Sixty Seconds)
* 2000: Family Man (The Family Man)
* 2001: Captain Corelli's Mandolin (Captain Corelli's Mandolin)
* 2001: Christmas Carol: The Movie
* 2002: adaptation. (Adaptation.)
* 2002: Wind talkers
* 2002: Sonny
* 2003: Tricks (Matchstick Men)
* 2004: The legacy of the Knights Templar (National Treasure)
* 2005: Lord of War - Merchants of Death
* 2005: The Weather Man
* 2006: Wicker Man - Ritual of evil (The Wicker Man)
* 2006: World Trade Center
* 2006: Lucas, the ants Schreck (The Ant Bully, voice)
* 2007: Ghost Rider
* 2007: Next
* 2007: The legacy of the secret book (National Treasure: Book of Secrets)
* 2008: Bangkok Dangerous

Awards

Oscars

* 1995: Best Actor (Leaving Las Vegas)
* 2003: Best Actor nomination (adaptation)

Golden Globe

* 1996: Best Actor - Drama (Leaving Las Vegas)

Golden Camera

* 2007: Film International

Nicolas Cage Pictures ( 13 Pictures)