Tuesday 28 June 2011

Nicolas Cage - The Rider

Birth Name: Nicholas Kim Coppola.
Nickname: Nick.
Date of Birth: 7 January 1964, Long Beach, California, USA.
Height: 6' (1.83 m).



The son of comparative literature professor August Coppola (a brother of director Francis Ford Coppola) and dancer/choreographer Joy Vogelsang, Cage changed his name early in his career to make his own reputation, succeeding brilliantly with a host of classic, quirky roles by the late 1980s.


October 1997: Ranked #40 in Empire (UK) magazine's "The Top 100 Movie Stars of All Time" list.
Ranked #37 in Premiere's 100 most powerful people in Hollywood in 1998.
1984: Listed as one of 12 "Promising New Actors of 1984" in John Willis' Screen World, Vol. 36.


2007: Bought Midford Castle (a big house, not a real castle) near Bath, England. Purchase price was in the region of £5 million (about $10 million).
In 2006, he donated $2 million to Amnesty International for a fund to help child soldiers.


(January 2011) Filming Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance (2012) in Turkey.



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