Nicolas Cage (1964)

American actor, producer and director.

* January 7, 1964 Long Beach, California
 as Nicholas Kim Coppola



Nicolas Cage is an American actor who has appeared in a wide variety of films, ranging from blockbuster action movies to independent dramas. He was born as Nicolas Kim Coppola, on January 7, 1964, in Long Beach, California, and began his acting career in the 1980s. Cage is the nephew of film director Francis Ford Coppola. Over the course of his career, Cage has appeared in numerous critically acclaimed films, including "Leaving Las Vegas" (1995), for which he won an Academy Award for Best Actor, "Adaptation" (2002), and "The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans" (2009). He is known for his energetic and intense acting style, and has often played unconventional or eccentric characters in his films. Cage has also appeared in a number of blockbuster movies, such as the "National Treasure" series and the "Ghost Rider" movies.

Books on Nicolas Cage

Douglas Thompson
Uncaged, The Biography of Nicolas Cage
London, 1997

Books with substantial mentioning of Nicolas Cage

Tom Pendergast, Sara Pendergast (eds.)
International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers, 3. Actors and Actresses
Detroit/New York/San Francisco/London/Boston/Woodbridge, CT, 2000

Tom Kummer Gibt es etwas Stärkeres als Verführung, Miss Stone? Tom Kummer
Gibt es etwas Stärkeres als Verführung, Miss Stone?
München, 1997

Books with an entry on Nicolas Cage

David Thomson The New Biographical Dictionary of Film David Thomson
The New Biographical Dictionary of Film
New York, 2003

Kay Weniger Das große Personenlexikon des Films Kay Weniger
Das große Personenlexikon des Films, Erster Band. A-C
Berlin, 2001

Interviews

Peter Keough, Cage unlocked, in: Sight & Sound, nr. 6, 2010 pp. 35

Will Lawrence, Nicolas Cage, in: Empire, nr. 252, 2010 pp. 130-135

Articles on Nicolas Cage

Simon Crook, Adventures in Streaming, in: Empire, nr. 320, 2016 pp. 134

Nic Cage's Crazy Characters!, in: Empire, nr. 273, 2012 pp. 30-31

Heiko Rosner, Kassensturz für den alten Wilden, in: Cinema (Germany), nr. 382, 2010 pp. 78-83

Articles with substantial mentioning of Nicolas Cage

Damon Wise, Game Changer!, in: Empire, nr. 249, 2010 pp. 84-93