• Date of Birth: January 07, 1964
  • Place of Birth: Long Beach, California
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Nicolas Cage Biography

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Johnny BlazeNicolas Cage mini-bio: Nicolas Cage is an award-winning American actor. Cage has also worked as a director and producer through his production company Saturn Films. As of 2006, he has been nominated twice for an Academy Award as Best Actor in a Leading Role, winning one of them for his performance in Leaving Las Vegas. Cage is one of the executive producers of the The Dresden Files TV show on the Sci-Fi Channel.

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Nicolas Cage Information:
Eye color: brown
Height: 6' (1.83 m)
Nickname(s): Nick
Notable feature(s): On his upper back he has a tattoo of monitor lizard with a top hat.
Education: Graduated UCLA School of Theater, Film, and Television. Attended Justin-Siena High School in Napa, CA, during the early '80s.
Family: August Coppola (father), Joy Vogelsang (mother), Marc and Christopher Coppola (brothers), Francis Ford Coppola (uncle), Sofia Coppola, Jason Schwartzman, and Roman Coppola (cousins), Patricia Arquette (first wife, 1995-2001), Lisa Marie Presley (second wife, 2002-2004), Alice Kim (2004-present), Weston Coppola-Cage (son with actress Christina Fulton), Kal-el Coppola Cage (son with present wife Alice Kim)
Resides in: Owns homes in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Las Vegas, New Orleans, and New York City.
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Other: Half German, half Italian.
Suffers from vertigo.
Loves to improvise, ocassionally to the annoyance of other cast members.
Got Johnny Depp his first acting job.



Comments

  • mohabest1
    the best
    just
    posted 1 day ago
  • imsumit
    Hes Just an Extra Ordinary Actor
    posted 2 days ago
  • NAKED2EYES
    i love this actor ........... he ackt as real .............wowwwwwwwwwwwww
    posted 5 days ago
  • NAKED2EYES
    ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.................i love it....hope you can make more n more movie.
    posted 5 days ago
  • asafkanki
    whaoo,thats ma boy right there,he's da best !!
    posted 6 days ago
  • epifamor
    ilove
    posted 12 days ago
  • nikkigrout
    ha how are you me ok anbd you
    posted 17 days ago
  • znurbek
    Love :)
    Kisses from Almaty
    posted 32 days ago
  • vinayaou
    you are simply superb!
    posted 48 days ago
  • zikriashah308
    hi nick
    plz keep ur body FIT,as it was in GHOOST RIDER

    ZIKRIA SHAH
    posted 91 days ago

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    In 2007, Nicolas Cage outbid Leonardo DiCaprio for a dinosaur skull, shelling out $276,000 for the artifact.
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    Nicolas Cage is known for owning exotic animals. He had a pet octopus, purebred dogs, rare birds, salt-water sharks, a lizard, and a crocodile. For a time, he even had two pet King Cobras (Moby and Sheba) that he observed for hours from a specially c...( read more)onstructed cell in his home. Cage donated them to a local zoo a short time later.
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    Nicolas Cage once ate a real cockroach in a movie. Actually, he ate a trio of real cockroaches, because it took three takes to get it just right. While filming 'Vampire's Kiss'(1989), Cage did his own stunt eating and swallowed the insects. The scri...( read more)pt had his character eating raw eggs, but Cage didn't think that would be weird enough.
  • Fun Fact:
    Nicolas Cage started life as Nicholas Coppola, but changed it to disassociate himself with famous film director Uncle Francis Ford Coppola. The name 'Cage' came from the comic book character 'Luke Cage'

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