Famous family dynasty
Nick was born in Long Beach, California on January 7, 1964. His real name is Nicholas Kim Coppola, the boy was born into a famous family, which can truly be called a clan or dynasty in the world of cinema, music and show business.
His paternal grandfather, Carmine Coppola, was an Italian immigrant who worked as a flutist in the Detroit Symphony Orchestra. And his uncle (father’s younger brother) Francis Ford Coppola is a famous screenwriter and director, famous for the “Godfather” trilogy. Now Nicholas's cousin, Sofia Coppola, is a famous screenwriter and director in Hollywood, who won an Oscar for the film Lost in Translation. Other aunts and uncles, sisters and brothers are also involved in the film business, write music or work in radio.
Dad, August Floyd Coppola, born in 1934, was a professor of literature and was involved in teaching. Mom, Joy Vogelsang, born in 1935, was of German descent, worked as a choreographer and dancer. In total, three sons were born in the family, Nicholas was the youngest among them.
The boy was twelve years old when his parents separated. Both Nick and his brothers managed to maintain excellent relationships with both dad and mom. Cage later said that they became two integral aspects of his life. The father rewarded his son with intellect, the mother with emotions, one went well with the other and helped in his acting career.
Biography[ | ]
Born on January 7, 1964 in California, in the city of Long Beach.
His parents August Floyd Coppola and Joy Vogelsang named him Nicholas Kim Coppola. However, the aspiring actor changed his last name to Cage to distance himself from his famous uncle Francis Ford Coppola[4]. The prototypes for the new name were comic book hero Luke Cage[5] and avant-garde composer John Cage[6].
Despite his high fees, he experienced financial difficulties for some time, partly due to expenses due to legal battles with his ex-wives, partly to the unusually luxurious lifestyle chosen by the actor, partly to errors in financial calculations made by himself and his personal accountant . Nicolas Cage owes $14 million to the state treasury in taxes[7].
In 2008, he experienced financial difficulties and sold his beachfront estate in Middletown, Rhode Island. Purchased by him in July 2007 for $15.7 million, it was sold 2.5 times cheaper - for $6.2 million[8]. In 2009, he was forced to sell the medieval Neidstein Castle, which he acquired in 2006. Cage also had to put his house in the prestigious Bel-Air area of Los Angeles up for sale for $35 million. The buyer, whose name has not been released, purchased the house in November 2010 for $10.5 million[9].
For his contribution to the development of the film industry, he was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame with number 7021.
Childhood and youth
Nick attended high school in Beverly Hills. Both teachers and classmates noticed his creative approach to classes and his wild imagination. Once during a history lesson, the teacher gave an assignment to write about the life of the Cro-Magnons. All the guys briefly and simply presented the facts on one page. And Nicholas composed an eight-page story from the perspective of a Cro-Magnon man who woke up in his cave in the morning.
The school Nick went to was pretty tough. It was here that his acting exercises began. To prevent people from approaching him and bullying him because of his famous surname, the boy had to play the first role. One day he put on his brother's cowboy boots, put dark glasses on his nose, put chewing gum in his mouth, got on the bus and went to school. He walked up to the crowd of boys and said: “I’m Nick’s cousin. Keep in mind that if you offend him, you will have to deal with me.” They believed, and since then no one at Nicholas’s school has touched or offended him. And this incident convinced him that he could become an actor in the future.
The drama class teachers saw talent in the boy. But Nicholas himself never had a desire to connect his life specifically with theatrical art, even despite the fact that he constantly took part in school plays, and during the holidays he went to San Francisco for theater courses. He was fascinated by cinema, and his idol was the famous 1950s actor James Dean.
At the age of seventeen, Nick left school, passing his exams early, and set off to conquer Hollywood.
Family and early years
Nicolas Cage was born on January 7, 1964 in the Californian city of Long Beach, in the suburbs of Los Angeles. His parents are literature teacher August Floyd Coppola (1934 – 2009) and dancer and choreographer Joy Vogelsang (born 1935). Nicholas was the youngest of three sons.
Nicolas Cage as a childThe famous director Francis Ford Coppola is Nicolas's uncle on his father's side, and this fact partly determined Cage's future life and his future attachment to cinema.
When the boy was 12 years old, his parents divorced, but the sons maintained a warm relationship with both dad and mom. “These are two integral aspects - my father gave me an intellectual life, and my mother gave me an emotional life, and one goes well with the other and helps me a lot in acting,” he said.
This is what the future actor looked like in high school. Nicholas attended Beverly Hills High School, which is famous for the fact that many of its students subsequently find their way into show business. Already at school, he was distinguished by his rich imagination and creative attitude to lessons. One of Cage’s classmates recalled: “We went to history together. I remember we went through the topic of Cro-Magnons, and we were given the task of writing about their life. We all turned in short one-page papers with simple statements of facts, and Nick wrote an entire eight-page essay from the perspective of a particular Cro-Magnon man who woke up in his cave that morning. “An interesting guy,” I thought.” One day the boys began to bully Nicholas because of his famous surname, but he did not run to his teachers or parents to complain. Instead, he changed into a leather jacket, put on dark glasses and appeared before the offenders under the guise of his own “uncle,” threatening to beat them up. The trick went off with a bang, and since then no one has pestered Nicholas again.
Nicolas Cage in his youth and now Nicholas gained his first acting experience in the school production of “Golden Boy” based on the Broadway show. The young man’s idol was the famous film actor of the 50s, James Dean: “I took up acting just to become like him,” Cage later recalled. Both of his older brothers, Mark and Christopher, have worked in New York radio their entire adult lives.
In the photo: Mark, brother of Nicolas Cage When the young man was fifteen, he began to actively press his eminent uncle with a request to give him a role in a movie. “I’ll show you how to play,” he insisted. After his uncle’s persistent refusals, Nicholas began to make the same request to other directors.
At first, there were disagreements between Nicolas Cage and his uncle. To follow his own path and distance himself from the Coppola family name, he took the pseudonym Nicolas Cage in honor of the Marvel comic book hero Luke Cage. Without completing his studies at a comprehensive school, the young man dropped out and enrolled in courses at the High School of Theater, Film and Television at the University of Los Angeles, from which Francis Ford Coppola and James Dean, as well as Steve Martin, Tim Robbins, and Ben Stiller, once graduated. and many other film stars.
First film roles
In 1981, Nicholas made his film debut in the TV series The Best of Times. The following year, he played a cameo role in the youth comedy Fast Times at Ridgemond High. Uncle Francis Ford Coppola allocated another small role for his nephew in his film “Rumble Fish”.
At the beginning of his career, in the first few films, Nick flashed under the name Coppola. But in 1983, when the casting for the film “Valley Girl” took place, the guy did not want his famous name to influence the choice of director, and called himself Nicolas Cage. He chose this name in honor of his favorite idol Luke Cage, an American comic book superhero. Luke Cage delighted Nicholas because he had superpowers without losing his human feelings. The role then went to Nick, and the producers had no idea about his secret for a long time.
“Valley Girl” was the first film where Nick played the main character of the Hollywood punk Randy, who met a pretty girl from a wealthy family, Julie Richman, and showed her the delights of night city life.
After the premiere of this film, directors and producers drew attention to the young guy, Nick began to appear on screen more and more often in leading roles:
- "Race with the Moon";
- "Bird";
- "Peggy Sue Got Married";
- "Power of the Moon";
- "Raising Arizona";
- "Vampire's Kiss"
- "Fire Birds";
- "Time to kill";
- "Zandali";
- "Honeymoon in Las Vegas."
By the beginning of the 1990s, Nicolas Cage was no longer only an actor in demand in Hollywood, but also received good reviews from critics. His work in David Lynch’s melodrama “Wild at Heart” was especially highly appreciated. The film received the main prize of the Cannes Film Festival - the Palme d'Or.
Carier start
Cage first appeared on screens in 1981. He starred in a series called "The Best of Times." In the following months, Cage played several more roles, but they were tiny.
The film “Valley Girls,” released in 1983, became a kind of springboard in building a film career. The actor brilliantly played the red-haired rock musician. It was at that time that he took on the pseudonym Cage.
No matter how hard Nicholas tried to isolate himself from his uncle Francis Coppola, it was he who noticed acting talent in his nephew. In 1983, the director worked on the creation of the film “Fighting Fish”. Nicholas passed the casting under general conditions. No concessions were made. He managed to beat the other contenders and get the role.
A year later, he starred in his uncle's next film. The picture was called "Club Cotton". At that time, Cage was already a fairly popular actor. Offers from directors rained down on him, as if from
Nicholas gained a reputation as an eccentric artist. He tried to portray his characters as authentically as possible. For example, for filming the film “Bird,” Cage asked doctors to pull out his teeth without anesthesia.
In the same year, the actor worked on a role in the film “Vampire's Kiss.” He ate a live cockroach right in front of the cameras. No, the actor, not Nicholas, was just getting used to the role of a journalist who has gone off the rails.
The highest award is “Oscar”
In 1994, director Mike Figgis invited Nicholas to play the lead role in the psychological drama Leaving Las Vegas. This is a story about the relationship between an alcoholic Ben and a prostitute Sera. Nick's partner was actress Elisabeth Shue. The film was based on the autobiographical novel by John O'Brien, who committed suicide two weeks after filming began.
In order to reliably get used to her roles, Elizabeth communicated with prostitutes, and Nicholas drank alcohol in large quantities. He drank without stopping for two weeks, and his friend filmed Cage. Later, Nick used these shootings as a template when it was necessary to portray a binge drunk. The actor also visited specialized clinics, where he was interested in the lives of people being treated there for alcoholism.
Such sacrifices were not in vain. For his work in the film Leaving Las Vegas, Nicholas was awarded the highest awards in cinema, the Golden Globe and the Oscar for Best Actor. And critics wrote then that Cage and Shue turned the social templates of the drunkard and the whore into living, unforgettable people with a heart of pure gold.
World fame
Two successful action films “The Rock” (1996) and “Con Air” (1997) brought Nicholas worldwide popularity. All his subsequent works were no less loud, and were especially remembered by the audience:
- "City of Angels";
- "Snake Eyes";
- "Raising the Dead";
- "8 millimeters";
- "Family man";
- "Gone in 60 seconds";
- "National Treasure";
- "Arms Baron";
- "Twin Towers";
- "Adaptation".
On average, three or four films featuring Nicolas Cage are released annually. Almost always these are the main roles. Someone is sure that Nick acts in all sorts of nonsense indiscriminately because he has large financial debts. Others, on the contrary, believe that the actor is unrealistically in demand. Cage himself thinks differently about this. In general, he has his own special opinion on many things in this life. Perhaps that is why he is still, as he was once at school, considered a little crazy.
Once he bet with the director that he would eat a live cockroach on camera. As a result, he won the argument, slowly chewing the vile insect. The next time, in order to get into character for the long-awaited role, he told the dentist to pull out three of his teeth without anesthesia. And while preparing for the film “Raising the Dead,” I spent several hours in the morgue. American critics call him eccentric, but the actor is not at all offended by them.
He has long considered himself an omnivorous performer, that is, Nick’s main goal in the profession is to try all types of characters and act in all styles of cinema: action, drama, comedy, science fiction, art house. For Cage, what is more important is not the number of films in which he played, but their genre diversity. He gets bored playing the same roles; Nick loves to surprise the audience and himself.
There is only one reason why he will not take on the role - if he feels that the type of hero is not his. And since Nicholas plays in all existing genres, in his career there were almost no refusals of offered work. Once he received an offer to star in the film “The Lord of the Rings,” but he had to go to Australia and New Zealand. At that time, the actor could not afford to go far and long, so he had to refuse. Now he regrets it.
Directing experience
In 2001, during the Screen Actors Guild strike in Hollywood, almost everyone, from leading actors to nameless extras, was unemployed for a couple of months. Nick took advantage of this break to prepare for his directorial debut. Then in 2002, Cage invited actors he liked and made the film Gigolo.
There were some difficulties with the promotion of the film. Producers refused to finance unless at least one star was involved in the film. The actors who were filming at that time were not yet so famous that crowds of people flocked to them. Therefore, in order to implement his project and further promote the film, Cage himself had to play a small role in it.
From filming, he learned a lot of useful things in terms of acting skills. I watched the work of Harry Dean Stanton and James Franco, watched how they delved into their roles, how they chose the right intonations. Nicholas compares the filming process to assembling a mosaic from numerous pieces; the work brought him pleasure. He plans to be in the director's chair again someday.
Christina Fulton - 1988-1991
Christina Fulton
Everything was leading to the fact that Cage’s next passion, Christina Fulton, would become his first legal wife. They first began to be noticed together in 1988, some time after the actor broke up with Brooke Shields. Then Fulton moved into Cage’s bachelor apartment and furnished it. And in December 1990, the couple had a son, Weston. Motherhood has changed Christina a lot. She began to demand from Nicholas that he be at home more often, but he, busy with his career, was physically unable to do this. As a result, they broke up. Cage, in addition to basic alimony, paid his son and his mother $3 million a year. But it seemed to the actress that this was not enough. She once sued her former lover, demanding that she also be given possession of the house that Cage bought when Weston was born. The court, taking into account the huge alimony payments, did not satisfy the actress’s wishes. But for the sake of their son, the actors maintained the appearance of a good relationship. And in 1998 they even played in the same film - “Snake Eyes”. Two years ago, they finally reconciled in honor of the birth of their grandson, Lucian Augustus Coppola Cage.
Kristen Zang - 1992-1994
Kristen Zang
Another model on Cage’s love list is Kristen Zang. The relationship between the stars lasted two whole years, it was like a fairy tale. They met at one of the social events, a spark appeared between them, and since then they have not parted. Nicholas proposed to Kristen in a chic restaurant, kneeling in front of the public. He took out a box with a ring from the inside pocket of his jacket and said: “Will you become my wife?” Zang said, “Yes!” And everything would have been wonderful if, shortly before the wedding, Cage had not met his longtime lover... He told her over the phone that the actor had decided to break up with Zang. The 19-year-old model was shocked, but very quickly calmed down and found herself a new lover.
Patricia Arquette - 1994-2001
Cage met his future wife Patricia back in 1987. He fell in love with her so much that he proposed marriage five hours after their first meeting. The girl thought that the actor was joking and gave him a whole list of what he would need to do in order to become her husband. For example, get a black orchid and the autograph of the writer Salinger, who, as you know, lived as a recluse and did not let anyone near him. When Cage fulfilled all the wishes of the actress, she was afraid of such pressure and asked not to bother her anymore. And eight years later, when Nicholas was just preparing for his wedding with Zang, she suddenly called him and asked: “Do you still want to marry me?” So, in 1995, Cage got married for the first time. The marriage lasted six whole years, although they claim that this is the official figure, but in fact the couple lived together for only nine months.
Lisa Marie Presley - 2002-2004
Lisa Marie Presley
They say that Nicolas Cage was in love not so much with Lisa Marie herself, but with her father, Elvis Presley. The actor has never hidden the fact that he is a fan of the famous singer. Lisa Marie and Nicholas met in 2001. At that time, Cage had already received an official divorce from Arquette, and their son Weston was already 10 years old. Presley was married twice and had two children. But it didn’t work out here either. Their marriage lasted only 109 days. “We both love to dramatize,” said Lisa Marie. “We were tossed from mad passion to mad hatred.” The couple could not survive such intense emotions and divorced. Interestingly, the divorce procedure lasted longer than the stars’ marriage itself.
Alice Kim Cage - 2004-2016
Alice Kim Cage
After a series of high-profile romances, Nicolas Cage did not appear in public with women for some time. Apparently, numerous relationships have exhausted him. The actor’s friends even began to worry that he would start drinking or something worse. But Cage surprised everyone. Nicholas is very fond of Japanese cuisine, one fine day the paparazzi captured him on a date with a young Korean waitress from the sushi bar where the actor loved to dine. No one took this novel seriously, because Alice could not be compared with any of the star ladies listed above! At the end of 2005, the couple had a son, who was named Kal-El. 10 years have passed since that moment, and the Cage family has secured the title of one of the most exemplary. They were always together, even on the set of films, if they were not in the USA. It was all the more surprising for Nicholas’s fans to learn that he had filed for divorce. Secular gossips say the reason for the divorce is that Cage is tired of his wife’s endless infidelities! The divorce proceedings are just beginning, but the 52-year-old actor has already found himself a new girlfriend. No one knows her name, but from the photographs it is clear that she is a young girl of Asian appearance. Most likely, she is from Japan, since on the date the girl was wearing a traditional kimono with a complex hairstyle typical of geishas.
Hobbies
Nicholas does not hide the fact that he has been obsessed with comics since childhood and has been collecting them all his life. In his early years, he learned to read from them; comics then seemed much more interesting to the child than ordinary books. As an adult, I once didn’t even regret paying 1.5 million dollars for a rare book that was forty years old, which was a record for collectors. Nicholas's favorite comic book is about the Ghost Rider, whom he later played in the movie.
However, after three rare editions were stolen from Cage, he decided to sell his entire collection of comics so as not to tempt thieves anymore. 400 magazines fetched $1.6 million at auction, including the very first editions of Batman and Captain America.
Nicholas also loves motorcycles; whenever he has free time, the actor spends it on the race track.
After fifty years, to stay in shape, Nick began to regularly play sports and became interested in the martial art of Brazilian jiu-jitsu.
Personal life
Tall and stately Nicolas Cage has never been deprived of female attention. And I myself couldn’t breathe evenly towards the representatives of the fair half of humanity. In 1987, having met actress Patricia Arquette in a cafe, an hour later he proposed marriage to her. The girl decided that this was a joke and supported her, asking before the wedding to present her with black orchids (which do not exist in nature) and the signature of the writer Salinger (who does not write anything by hand). After some time, Nick provided Patricia with a flower painted with black paint and a note from the writer, bought at auction for a decent amount. Despite the fulfillment of the conditions, the wedding fell through.
In 1988, Nick entered into a civil relationship with actress Christina Fulton. In 1990, the couple had a boy, Weston Coppola Cage. Now he is already an adult man with very beautiful eyes, he has played several small roles in his father’s films and is trying to make his way on his own, the vocalist of the group “Eyes of Noctum”. On July 1, 2014, his son and daughter-in-law made Cage happy with their grandson, who was named Lucian August Coppola Cage. Lucian is a name of Romanian origin, as the daughter-in-law is from Romania, and August is in honor of Nicholas's father.
In 1995, fate again brought Nick together with Patricia Arquette, this time they got married. But the marriage did not turn out to be happy and long; after six years of marriage, Cage and Arquette divorced.
Nick's second official wife is Elvis Presley's daughter Lisa Marie, who was previously married to singer Michael Jackson. This marriage “broke all records for duration” - after living for 109 days, the couple divorced.
Cage's third wife is Korean Ellis Kim. The girl worked as a waitress in a sushi bar, where Nicholas visited on Valentine's Day. A relationship began between them that developed very quickly. Ellis and Nick got married in 2004, and in 2005 the couple had a boy, Kal-El. This marriage turned out to be the longest in the actor’s life. The couple lived together for more than ten years, but in January 2016 they announced their separation.
All the women of Nicolas Cage
Hollywood actor and cinematographer, Oscar winner, Nicolas Cage recently celebrated his 55th birthday. The representative of the Coppola star dynasty can boast of a huge number of bright roles in films, numerous awards and prizes, as well as a very stormy and eventful personal life. In January 2016, the actor broke up with his third wife Alice Kim, and not so long ago it became known that Nicholas was again going to go to the altar, and his current chosen one is 32 years younger than him. In this article we will try to remember all the bright novels of Cage and the women who played significant roles in his life.
Nicolas Cage and Elizabeth Daly
Cage's acting career started at the dawn of the 80s. In 1983, he received his first leading role in the melodramatic comedy “Valley Girl,” on the set of which he met an American actress and performer named Elizabeth Daly. At that time, Nicholas was 19 years old, and Elizabeth was 22 years old. The attractive and smiling blonde immediately attracted the attention of the aspiring actor. When the young people began to communicate, they found out that they had once attended the same school, however, the girl was three classes older, so they did not communicate. In addition, the actress in those years bore a different surname - Elizabeth Gu had a minor role, and Nicholas’ on-screen lover was another actress, but it was with Daly that he began to be noticed more and more often during his off hours. However, the office romance that developed on the set did not last long. After the premiere of the film, Cage became a real star and an idol of teenagers, and offers from film directors literally rained down on him, but Elizabeth remained a supporting heroine. Soon their romantic relationship fizzled out.
Nicolas Cage and Elizabeth Daly
Nicolas Cage and Jenny Wright
In the mid-80s, Nicholas met the aspiring young actress Jenny Wright. The girl was two years older, however, she still could not boast of any notable film work. They first met at one of the castings, started talking, a spark ran between them and, soon, a whirlwind romance broke out. It is worth noting that many of the actor’s friends did not approve of his choice; they considered Jenny not attractive enough, not very successful and without much prospects in cinema. Such conversations irritated Nicholas a lot, so when he was faced with a choice: love or friends, he, without hesitation, chose the first. He spent all his free time in the company of Jenny and was truly happy.
Jenny Wright
At the beginning of 1986, the couple, unexpectedly for many, announced their engagement and began actively preparing for the wedding. The actors even managed to send out invitations to their friends and family, however, less than a month before the scheduled celebration, the lovers unexpectedly separated. None of them gave official comments about why this happened. It was rumored that the groom cheated on his chosen one on the eve of the wedding, she found out about it and could not forgive. But, be that as it may, after the breakup, the former lovers no longer communicated. Jenny's acting career did not work out; after several successful films released in the late 80s, she began acting less and less, and in the early 00s, she completely disappeared from the screens. Wright is now 57 years old; after breaking up with her fiancé, she never married and did not acquire heirs.
Jenny Wright
Nicolas Cage and Brooke Shields
Soon after breaking up with his fiancee, the actor began an affair with the star of the cult adventure melodrama “The Blue Lagoon,” model and actress Brooke Shields. For some time they kept their relationship a secret, so that many did not even know that the actors were dating. But in 1987, at the premiere of the romantic comedy Moonstruck, in which Cage played the main role, he appeared with Brooke Shields. The young people walked out onto the red carpet, holding hands, willingly posing for photographers, hugging, kissing and in every possible way demonstrating their tender feelings to those present.
Nicolas Cage and Brooke Shields
Many then were quite surprised at what Brooke found in an aspiring actor with not very expressive appearance, who looked clearly inferior against her background. But Shields at that time was not just a popular actress, but also one of the most successful and sought-after models in the world, she appeared on the covers of famous glossies, was included in the lists of the most beautiful women on the planet, and the best photographers fought for the right to work with her. Their relationship with the actor lasted only a little more than six months, and then they broke up. According to some reports, this beautifully started romance was ruined by Brooke’s total workload and the insane jealousy of Nicholas, who constantly suspected his beloved of having relationships with other famous men.
Nicolas Cage and Brooke Shields
Nicolas Cage and Uma Thurman
In 1988, Nicholas had a fleeting affair with the still very young aspiring actress Uma Thurman. There is very little information about this relationship; it is known that they began dating when the actress had just made her debut in Hollywood, starring in the teen comedy Johnny Be Smart. Uma was almost six and a half years younger than Nicholas and was his devoted fan. Their romance lasted about six months, after which the young people, without any particular regrets, broke up. According to Thurman, she simply realized that the real Cage and his on-screen hero, with whom she fell in love as a teenager, were two completely different people.
Uma Thurman in her youth
Nicolas Cage and Christina Fulton
In the same year 1988, the actor met the rising screen star Christina Fulton. The blonde beauty was three years younger than him, their romance was stormy and hot, and many seriously assumed that Christina would become Nicholas’s first legal wife. Soon after the actors were first spotted together on a romantic date, information appeared that Fulton moved to live in her lover’s bachelor apartment and began to equip it, creating family comfort. In the summer of 1990, it became known that the couple was expecting the birth of their first child. Then again everyone started talking about an imminent wedding, however, the lovers did not announce their engagement. In December of the same year, the actors had a common son, Weston Coppola Cage, but this joyful event did not force the young parents to seal their relationship with marriage.
Nicolas Cage and Christina Fulton
After the birth of the baby, Christina began to demand from her lover that he be at home more often and spend more time with her and the child. The actor, who was constantly busy filming and then disappeared at social events, quickly began to irritate such demands of his chosen one, so that, in fact, they broke up when their common son was not yet a year old. Nicholas paid his ex-lover and their heir considerable alimony, but Christina considered that this was not enough and tried to sue the actor for the house that he purchased after the birth of the child. True, the court did not satisfy the actress’s demands, taking into account the impressive monthly payments that she received from her former lover. Later, Christina and Nicholas managed to resolve all the problems and disagreements, and they even starred together in the late 90s in the same film - the thriller “Snake Eyes”. The actors finally reconciled and forgot all past grievances only in 2014, when their common heir and his wife Danielle made them happy with their grandson Lucian.
Nicolas Cage and Christina Fulton
Nicolas Cage and Kristen Zang
In 1992, shortly after the final separation from Fulton, it became known about the actor’s new romance. This time his chosen one was an actress and model named Kristen Zang. The chosen one was almost eleven years younger than the actor, but they did not notice this age difference. They first met at one of the noisy social events and did not part for about two years. Their romance was like a fairy tale; they appeared together everywhere, talked in interviews about their feelings for each other, and also shared plans for the future.
Nicolas Cage and Kristen Zang
In 1993, the actor made an official marriage proposal to his young lady: he invited her to a luxurious restaurant, and during dinner he unexpectedly got down on one knee right in front of the amazed visitors, took out a diamond ring and asked Kristen to become his legal wife. . The touched 19-year-old model cried with happiness and, of course, answered him with consent. They remained in the status of bride and groom for less than a year, but, unexpectedly, a couple of months before the wedding, the actor met his longtime sweetheart, actress Patricia Arquette, for whom he decided to leave his bride. He informed Kristen about his decision by phone, which greatly offended the girl. However, having overcome such a shock, she found the strength to live on, and in the late 90s it became known about her affair with another Hollywood film actor, Leonardo DiCaprio.
Nicolas Cage and Kristen Zang
Nicolas Cage and Patricia Arquette
The actor first met Patricia Arquette back in 1987, and fell madly in love with her. At that time, she was already a fairly famous actress, played one of the key roles in the third part of the cult horror film “A Nightmare on Elm Street” and became a teenager idol. At that time, Patricia was 19 years old; she and Nicholas met at one of the events and just a few hours after meeting, he asked for the girl’s hand in marriage. The actress decided that he was joking, and instead of answering, she gave him a whole list of requirements that he had to fulfill in order for her to give her consent. Among other things, the girl wanted to receive a black orchid flower, as well as the autograph of her favorite writer Salinger, who led a reclusive life and did not let anyone even close to him.
Nicolas Cage and Patricia Arquette
But, by some miracle, Cage managed to fulfill all the wishes of his beloved, however, by doing so he only frightened her with his pressure. Arquette not only refused to become his wife, but also asked him to leave her alone. And seven years later, when the actor was already very famous and in demand and was preparing for a wedding with a model, Patricia unexpectedly called him and asked if he still wanted to marry her. Obviously, Cage was happy with this turn of events; he did not hesitate to break off the engagement and leave his young bride heartbroken. And in 1995, the actor walked down the aisle for the first time. Their marriage to Patricia lasted almost six years, and in 2000, after a series of scandals and mutual reproaches, the actors filed for divorce. The couple did not have any children together, and, according to some sources, they separated several years before they officially dissolved their marriage.
Nicolas Cage and Patricia Arquette
Nicolas Cage and Angelina Jolie
Judging by rumors, while working together on the action-packed action film Gone in 60 Seconds, a romance broke out on the set between the main characters of the film, Nicolas Cage and Angelina Jolie. In June 2003, the couple was repeatedly seen together outside of work hours, the two of them walked together, dined in restaurants, attended celebrity parties, which is why many decided that the actors were dating. They themselves did not comment on their relationship, and after the filming of the film was completed, they did not appear anywhere together.
Nicolas Cage and Angelina Jolie
Nicolas Cage and Lisa Marie Presley
Nicholas met his second wife, the only heir of the legendary “king of rock and roll,” in 2001. Apparently, the actor was not as in love with the girl herself as with the work of her famous father. He never hid the fact that he was a true fan of Elvis Presley, and considered it an honor to personally meet his daughter. By that time, he had already filed an official divorce from Patricia and was again in the status of an eligible bachelor. By the way, Lisa Maria, before meeting the actor, managed to be married twice and raised two heirs. In August 2002, the couple legalized their relationship, however, after only three and a half months (109 days) they filed for divorce. According to Presley, she and her husband were too prone to drama, and they were constantly thrown “from frantic passion to burning hatred,” and therefore, they could not withstand such intensity of passions for a long time and decided to separate. It is noteworthy that their divorce proceedings lasted longer than the marriage itself existed.
Nicolas Cage and Lisa Marie Presley
Nicolas Cage and Alice Kim Cage
The actor met his third wife in one of the Asian restaurants, where the girl worked as a simple waitress. Nicholas immediately liked a young Korean woman named Alice Kim and soon he decided to ask her out on a date. At first, no one took their romance seriously, because a world-famous Hollywood movie star and a simple waitress had little in common, so the actor’s fans and colleagues thought that the couple would soon separate. But, Cage unexpectedly proposed to his passion and she agreed, and in October 2005 the couple had a son together, whom they named Kal-El in honor of the popular comic book hero.
Nicolas Cage and Alice Kim Cage
For a long time, Alice was accused of marrying for convenience, but the couple, over the many years of marriage, managed to prove to everyone that true love and mutual understanding reigned in their family. They even began to be called one of the most exemplary couples in Hollywood, but in 2016, news broke unexpectedly about the impending divorce of the spouses. Officially, Kim and Cage tried not to advertise their separation, but there were rumors that the wife had recently become bored due to the actor’s indifference and had started an affair on the side. Nicholas did not remain in debt, and even before the official dissolution of the marriage, he was noticed in the company of a certain young Asian model.
Nicolas Cage and Alice Kim Cage with their son
Nicolas Cage and Erika Koike
Not long ago it became known that the actor was dating a Hollywood makeup artist and makeup artist named Erika Koike. Little is known about Nicholas's current girlfriend; they were first photographed together last year in Puerto Rico. Soon after this, they officially confirmed their relationship and appeared several times at social events as a couple. And now information has appeared that the actor is going to marry his current passion. It is noteworthy that the girl is 32 years younger than her star lover, but such an impressive age difference, apparently, does not bother them.
Nicolas Cage and Erika Koike
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