Nicolas Cage was born January 7, 1964 in the city of Long Beach, which is located in the US state of California. Nicholas Kim Coppola - this is the real name of the actor. His mother worked as a choreographer, and his father was a professor of literature. They divorced in 1976. It so happened that the professions of all the immediate family of the actor are in any way connected with show business. Francis Ford Coppola himself is the brother of Cage's father. Nicholas therefore took a creative pseudonym so as not to depend on the fame of his famous uncle.
The boy began to play, even when he was in high school in Beverly Hills and often went to the city of San Francisco during high school holidays, where he attended acting classes at the American Theater. At seventeen, Nicolas Cage dropped out of school, all final exams, passing externally.
Nicolas Cage - the beginning of a stellar career
The guy begins to look for small roles. The first television debut of the future star took place in 1981, Nicholas then starred in the movie "Best Times". After that, there were several more roles that never brought the actor fame. After participating in films such as “Raising Arizona”, as well as “Power of the Moon”, he became famous, and when Nicholas starred in the movie “Leaving Las Vegas” in 1995, he was awarded the Oscar as the best actor.
Nicolas Cage - gaining popularity
Nicolas Cage gained popularity among the mass audience after participating in high-budget action movies - in 1996 in the movie "The Rock", in 1997 in the "Air Prison" and "Without a Face". These films at one time gathered a huge box office, which gave the actor the opportunity to enter the club for the elite "20 million". They say that this is exactly what he received after filming in the movie “Gone in 60 Seconds,” which was released in 2000.
Nicolas Cage - Most Notable Roles
Even after such success, the actor did not focus only on action movies. In 1988, he plays a very serious role in the film “City of Angels” and in two other “difficult” films in 1999 - “8 mm” and “Resurrecting the Dead”. In all his roles, Nicolas Cage shows the real wonders of reincarnation, devoting to the intricacies of acting craft just a huge amount of time, attention and effort. For example, before starting to star in the movie "Resurrecting the Dead", the actor daily went with an ambulance crew on real duty, and in the movie "Kiss of the Vampire" he decides to eat a real cockroach right in the frame to give the film a more realistic look.
Nicolas Cage - personal life
The personal life of this film actor is also confusing and complex, like his career. Nicolas Cage got married three times. The first time back in 1995, he tied the knot of Hymen with Patricia Arquette, with whom he lived until May 2001. The second time the actor tried to build a family with Lisa Maria Presley, the daughter of the famous musician Elvis Presley, whom she signed in August 2002. A little more than three months they lived together. In October 2005, his third wife was Korean Ellis Kim, who worked as an ordinary waitress in a sushi bar. Nicolas Cage brings up two sons. The first-born Weston was born to him on December 26, 1990, actress Christina Fulton, the second heir was born on October 3, 2005 from his current wife Alice Kim.
Nicolas Cage - interesting facts
- In different interviews, the actor differently indicates the reason why he chose the pseudonym Cage. He told some correspondents that he named himself in honor of one comic book hero, in others - in honor of the avant-garde composer.
- Nicolas Cage is simply crazy about his giant lizard for whom he built a special 2.5 m pool. He also bought a refrigerator for her, which is filled to the brim with fresh little mice, which are his "pupil's" favorite food. The actor even made a lizard tattoo on his shoulder.
- According to Empire magazine, Cage was named the fortieth number among the “100 movie stars of all time,” and Premiere magazine assigned him the thirty-seventh number in a similar register of the most influential people from Hollywood.
Nicolas Cage - Today
Most recently, a movie was released with the participation of an actor called "Phantom Racer 2", in which Nicolas Cage plays a mysterious hero, fighting with lawlessness on behalf of dark forces. At the moment, he is accused of non-payment of federal income taxes for the US government in the amount of 13 million dollars. So far, Cage has managed to pay only 6 million and if he does not repay all the debt, he faces a prison. The actor himself accuses the former business manager of this oversight. Nicolas Cage claims that his employee did not keep tax records at all.
