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Celebrity birth data

Nicolas Cage

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Nicolas Cage、Nicolas Kim Coppola

Birth data

Gender
Male
Birth date
January 7, 1964
Birth time
05:30（UTC-08:00）
As recorded: 05:30 (= 05:30 AM )
Birthplace
Harbor City, Los Angeles, California, United StatesAs recorded: Harbor City, California, 33n47, 118w18
Country / region
United States
Reliability
AABirth record or official document

Biography

Nicolas Cage (born Nicolas Kim Coppola) is an American actor and film producer known for his versatility across film genres, which has earned him a large cult following. An Italian American born into the Coppola family, he is the nephew of director Francis Ford Coppola; he entered the film industry at 17 and adopted the surname Cage to avoid working in his uncle's shadow.

After early roles in Valley Girl, Birdy and several films directed by his uncle, he drew attention for his expressive performances in Moonstruck, Raising Arizona and Wild at Heart. In 1995 he won the Academy Award and the Golden Globe for Best Actor in a Drama for Leaving Las Vegas, and in 2002 he received another Oscar nomination for Adaptation.

After his Oscar win he became a mainstream action star in The Rock, Con Air, Face/Off, the National Treasure and Ghost Rider series and Kick-Ass, while continuing to take dramatic roles in films such as The Family Man and Lord of War, and he voiced Spider-Man Noir in Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse. After a stretch of straight-to-video productions, he won renewed critical praise for films including Mandy, Pig and Longlegs.

He received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1998, and in 2022 Empire magazine readers voted him one of the 50 greatest actors of all time.

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