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Tuesday, December 2, 2008

Did you know this Nicolas Cage trivia?




Did you know Nicolas Cage Birth Name is Nicholas Kim Coppola?

Did you know that he was born on 7 January 1964,in Long Beach, California?


Did you know that his nickname is Nick ?


Did you know that his height is 6'?

Did you know that director Francis Ford Coppola is his Uncle?



Did you know that Cage changed his name early in his career to make his own reputation?



Did you know that he secured a bit part in Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982)?



Did you know that he has a son with Christina Fulton, and his name is Weston Coppola Cage (born 26 December, 1990.)?



Did you know that he is on his third marriage?



Lisa Marie Presley
(10 August 2002 - 26 May 2004) (divorced)
Patricia Arquette
(8 April 1995 - 18 May 2001) (divorced)
Alice Kim (I) (30 July 2004 - present); 1 child

Did you know that he is half German, half Italian?



Did you know that in October 1997: Ranked #40 in Empire (UK) magazine's "The Top 100 Movie Stars of All Time" list?



Did you know that that he was engaged to Kristen Zang?



Did you know that he is the nephew of Talia Shire?



Did you know that he got Johnny Depp his first acting job?



Did you know that he is close friends with Tom Waits?



Did you know that his stage name taken from comic book character Luke Cage?



Did you know that he owns a Lamborghini that used to belong to Prince Ali-Reza Pahlavi, the former Shah of Iran?



Did you know that his Brother are Marc Coppola and Christopher Coppola?



Did you know that he proposed to Patricia Arquette on the day he met her in the early 1980s. Arquette thought he was a bit strange but played along with his antics by creating a list of things Cage would have to fulfill to win her. When he started to work his way through the list, Arquette got scared and avoided him. They met again many years later and later went on to marry?
Did you know that in 1997 He lived in a fake castle on the outskirts Los Angeles. He wants to import an authentic one from overseas?



Did you know that he loves to improvise, occasionally to the annoyance of other cast members?



Did you know that the Wild at Heart (1990) movie poster lists his name as both "Nicolas Cage" and "Nicholas Cage"?



Did you know that he was ranked #37 in Premiere's 100 most powerful people in Hollywood in 1998?



Did you know that he is the cousin of Jason Schwartzman?



Did you know that he suffers from vertigo?



Did you know that Tim Burton cast Cage in his doomed Superman project. Cage even did fittings of the costume?



Did you know that on his upper back he has a tattoo of monitor lizard with a top hat?



Did you know that in 2001 he Announced that he was dating Lisa Marie Presley, who he later married, then divorced?



Did you know that his father August Coppola, was formerly a professor at Cal State Long Beach and Dean of Creative Arts at San Francisco State University?



Did you know that during an A&E Biography on him, the host explained that Cage was director Sam Raimi's first choice to play Norman Osborn/Green Goblin in the movie Spider-Man (2002). Apparently this was before he met Willem Dafoe?



Did you know that he Graduated UCLA School of Theater, Film, and Television?



Did you know that his former cousin, by marriage, is director Spike Jonze.?



Did you know that he Met wife Alice Kim (I) at a sushi bar where she was a waitress. She was only 20-years-old at the time they married?





Did you know that he is close friends with Crispin Glover?



Did you know that he Ate a real cockroach in the film Vampire's Kiss (1989), it reportedly took three takes. He once said about the experience, "Every muscle in my body didn't want to do it, but I did it anyway?"



Did you know that he attended Justin-Siena High School in Napa, CA, during the early '80s?



Did you know that he is (along with his cousin Sofia Coppola) the third generation of Oscar winners in the Coppola family. His uncle, Francis Ford Coppola and his grandfather, Carmine Coppola, are the other two generations. They are the second family to do so, the first family is the Hustons - Anjelica Huston, John Huston and Walter Huston.?



Did you know that Nick and his wife, Alice, had a son, Kal-el Coppola Cage, on October 3, 2005 in New York City. Just as Nick was named after a comic book character, Luke Cage, so has he named his son after the comic book character Kal-el (aka Superman)?



Did you know that he trains in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu under Royce Gracie?



Did you know that in July 2006: Bought Schloss Neidstein, a mini castle in the Bavarian village of Etzelwang?



Did you know that he is close friends with Rush drummer Neil Peart?



Did you know that he is a big fan of Elvis Presley?



Did you know that in 2006: He purchased a home on the former property of John Wayne in Newport Beach, CA, for a record-setting $24 million?



Did you know that he auditioned for the role of Joel in Risky Business (1983), but the role eventually went to Tom Cruise?



Did you know that he owns a home in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Las Vegas, New Orleans, and New York City?



Did you know that 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)?



Did you know that in 2006, he donated $2 million to Amnesty International for a fund to help child soldiers?



Did you know his salary for his moves?
National Treasure (2004)
$20 million
Adaptation. (2002)
$2,000,000
Windtalkers (2002)
$20,000,000
Captain Corelli's Mandolin (2001)
$7,000,000
Gone in Sixty Seconds (2000)
$20,000,000
Bringing Out the Dead (1999)
$1,000,000
Snake Eyes (1998)
$16,000,000
Face/Off (1997)
$6,000,000
The Rock (1996)
$4,000,000
Leaving Las Vegas (1995)
$240,000
Vampire's Kiss (1989)
$40,000
Valley Girl (1983)
$5,000.00
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