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He was born Nicholas Kim Coppola in Long Beach, California, the son of August and Joy Coppola. In 1976, Cage's parents divorced and he moved to Beverly Hills with his father. He is the nephew of both Francis Ford Coppola and Talia Shire.

Cage changed his name early in order to try to make his own way in acting without benefiting from his uncle's reputation. He chose the name Cage after the Marvel comic book hero Luke Cage, Power Man.

He had a small role in Fast Times at Ridgemont High ( 1982), most of which ended on the cutting room floor. His next notable roles were in the 1983 movies Rumble FishRumble Fish is a 1983 film directed, produced and co-written by Francis Ford Coppola, based on the novel by S. Hinton (BooksEnthsiast.com). The movie centres around Rusty James (Dillon), the leader of a small gang in an industrial town. Rusty's brother, The and Valley Girl , which was his breakout role.

He won an Academy AwardBob Hope received two honorary Oscars for his contributions to cinema. The Academy Awards (often better known as Oscars) are the most prominent film award in the United States. The Awards are granted by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, a p for Best ActorThe Academy Award for Best Actor is one of the awards given to people working in the motion picture industry by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences; nominations are made by Academy members who are actors and actresses. The winners are chosen b for his role in Leaving Las VegasLeaving Las Vegas is an MGM film made in 1995 with Nicolas Cage and Elisabeth Shue directed by Mike Figgis. It is based on a novel by John O'Brien. Two weeks after the production of the film had started, O'Brien committed suicide. A halt of the project wa ( 19951995 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). It has a Golden number of 1, and was the first year of the International Decade of the World's Indigenous People (1995- 2005): http://www. org/culture/indigenous . Events January events Ja). He has developed a reputation for alternating roles in action movieAction movies usually involve a fairly straightforward story of good guys versus bad guys, where most disputes are resolved by using physical force. Action movies are usually " high concept" films where the whole movie can be easily summarized in a simples with more serious character-driven dramaThis article refers to the art form. For the town, see Drama, Greece . Drama is a term generally used to refer to an art form involving performances by actors, either real or computer-generated. These performances can be in a variety of media: live perfors, and an occasional black comedyBlack comedy also known as black humor, is a subgenre of comedy and satire that deals with "serious" subjects death, divorce, drug abuse, et cetera in a humorous manner. A scene in the play Waiting for Godot is a good example of black comedy: A man takes.

He has a son, Weston Coppola Cage (born 1990), with model Kristina Fulton . On April 8, 1995, he married actress Patricia Arquette. They divorced in 2001. On August 10, 2001, he married Lisa Marie Presley and filed for divorce less than four months later. He married former waitress Alice Kim at the end of July 2004 in a private ceremony in northern California.