Born: January 7, 1964 - Long Beach, California, USA
Not many people can boast that they
were expelled from elementary school only to later find a career that
would provide a seven-figure salary, but Nicolas Cage is one of the few
so anointed. The nephew of filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola, Cage changed
his name so that his acting career would not be chalked up to nepotism.
He chose "Cage" out of admiration for avant-garde musician John
Cage, as well as for comic book hero Luke Cage. Even if he had retained
the family name, it's not likely that anyone would consider Cage a slacker,
holding fast to his uncle's coattails. Stories abound concerning the extremes
to which he will go to "feel" his roles, not the least of which
was the time he had a tooth extracted without Novocaine in order to fully
appreciate the pain suffered by the wounded soldier he played in the 1984
film Birdy.
Born January 7, 1964, in Long Beach, CA, to a literature
professor father and dancer/choreographer mother, Cage first got into
acting while a student at Beverly Hills High School. After dropping out
at the age of 17, he made his film debut with a small part in Amy Heckerling's
1982 classic, Fast Times at Ridgemont High. Following a lead role in 1983's
Valley Girl, Cage spent the remainder of the decade playing endearingly
bizarre and disreputable men, most notably in Peggy Sue Got Married (1986),
Raising Arizona (1987), and the same year's Moonstruck, the last of which
won him a Golden Globe nomination and a legion of female fans ecstatic
over the actor's unconventional romantic appeal.
The 1990s saw Cage take on a string of diverse
roles ranging from a violent ex-con in David Lynch's Wild at Heart (1990)
to a sweet-natured private eye in the romantic comedy Honeymoon in Vegas
(1992) to a dying alcoholic in Mike Figgis' astonishing Leaving Las Vegas
in 1995. For this last role, Cage won a Best Actor Oscar for his quietly
devastating portrayal, and, respectability in hand, gained an official
entrance into Hollywood's higher ranks. After winning his Oscar, along
with a score of other honors for his performance, Cage switched gears
again, choosing to star in a series of big-budget action films. 1996 saw
him take the lead in the Alcatraz thriller The Rock, and the following
year he made Con Air and John Woo's Face/Off, the latter of which attained
overwhelming critical as well as commercial success. 1998 marked Cage's
return to sentimental romance with his performance as a love-struck angel
in City of Angels, a remake of Wim Wenders' Wings of Desire. Rejecting
the possibility of continuity, Cage next made the crime thriller 8MM (1999),
in which he played a surveillance expert investigating the suspicious
death of an actress in the underground porn industry. The same year, he
starred as a burnt-out paramedic in Martin Scorsese's Bringing Out the
Dead, sharing the screen with such notables as then-real-life wife Patricia
Arquette, John Goodman, and Ving Rhames.
After a turn as a man who comes to question his
values and work ethic in the lightly dramatic romantic comedy The Family
Man in 2000, Cage moved back into action with Gone in 60 Seconds before
expanding his career in the newfound role of producer to such films as
Shadow of the Vampire (2000), Sonny (2001) and, The Life of David Gale
(also 2002). That same year also found Cage in the role of romantic lead
opposite Penelope Cruz in the eagerly anticipated Captain Corelli's Mandolin.
Long considered a mainstream actor of decidedly quirky sensibilities,
Cage cemented this perception in teaming with Being John Malkovich director
Spike Jonze for a duel role in the complex comedy Adaptation (2002). Appearing
as both screenwriter Charlie Kaufman as well as his fictional brother
Donald, Adaptation found Cage detailing the frustrated siblings' attempt
to adapt author Susan Orlean's seemingly unfilmable novel The Orchid Theif
as a feature film. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
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