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Nicolas Cage is an American actor and film producer. He is the recipient of various accolades, including an Academy Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, and a Golden Globe Award as well as nominations for two BAFTA Awards. Known for his versatility as an actor, Cage's work across diverse film genres has gained him a significant cult following. Films in which he has appeared have grossed over $6.4 b…
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Born 7 January 1964 · Q42869
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“s imagination without restraint, in avoidance of experiencing the sense of being ingenuous. The process itself is about: How do you augment your imagination in a healthy way? So that you can believe you”
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“might be the wildest movie I”
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The Guardian: Netflix sued for $105m over stolen Nicolas Cage war thriller
The Guardian: Out of Sight review – mountain idyll in the Austrian uplands is a gilded cage for distressed asylum seekers
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Public attention spiked: 52,317 Wikipedia readers in one day, 4.9× the usual 10,643, with 8 article edits. Coverage that week: “Nicolas Cage as the Green Goblin? It will always be one of Hollywood’s great might-have-beens” (The Guardian).
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The Guardian: Nicolas Cage as the Green Goblin? It will always be one of Hollywood’s great might-have-beens
The Guardian: Spider-Noir review – Nicolas Cage’s stylish take on the superhero as a 1940s detective is huge fun
The Guardian: The Carpenter’s Son review – Nicolas Cage is predictably miscast in dull biblical horror
The Guardian: I’ve watched every single Nicolas Cage film made so far. Here’s what I learned about him – and myself
The Guardian: Nicolas Cage: ‘I don’t think a day goes by where I’m not mistaken for Nick Cave’
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The Guardian: ‘Robots cannot reflect the human condition’: Nicolas Cage speaks out against AI
Snopes rated the claim “An image showed an official poster for a sequel to the 2000 film “Gone in 60 Seconds,” set to reach theaters in May 2025 and with Nicolas Cage returning to star as Memphis Raines.” Labeled Satire.
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The Guardian: Longlegs review – Maika Monroe and Nicolas Cage grip in brooding horror thriller
Snopes rated the claim “An image from the movie "Raising Arizona" featuring Nicolas Cage and Holly Hunter was once used on the cover of a Serbian biology textbook.” True.
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Awarded Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor (2023).
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Cage was included as a playable character in the horror video game Dead by Daylight
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Awarded St. Louis Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor for Pig (2021).
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Cage married Riko Shibata (芝田 璃子, Shibata Riko)
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Reported net worth: $25M (as of 2021).
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In the Midnight Madness portion of the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival, where Cage was awarded for his role with the Creative Coalition's Spotlight Initiative Award
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Viktor and Irina Yelchin premiered a documentary about their son Anton Yelchin, Love, Antosha, at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival
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Awarded Sitges Grand Honorary Award (2018).
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And received positive reviews from critics, with review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes defining his performance as "over-the-top
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Italian cartoonist Zerocalcare dedicated a comic strip to Nicolas Cage, describing him as one of the incarnation of the outcasts of 90's films
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Cage starred in the action thriller film Mandy, which premiered on January 19 at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival
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Snopes.com rated the claim “Actor Nicolas Cage died in a motorcycle accident in July 2016.” False.
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With a subsequent screening at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival
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Cage was involved in many projects
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It was confirmed that Nicolas Cage would reprise his role as Grug in The Croods: A New Age, which was released in 2020
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That Cage is "the only actor since Marlon Brando that's actually done anything new with the art", crediting him for taking film audiences "away from an obsession with naturalism into a kind of presentation style of actin
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For suspicion of domestic abuse battery, disturbing the peace and public intoxication
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Cage reprised his role in Ghost Rider's sequel Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance
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Cage starred in The Sorcerer's Apprentice, in which he played the sorcerer, and the next year, headlined the period piece Season of the Witch, as a 14th-century knight transporting a woman accused of causing the Black Pl
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Along with another New Orleans property for a total of $5
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The Internal Revenue Service filed documents in New Orleans in connection with a federal tax lien against property owned by Cage in Louisiana, concerning unpaid federal taxes
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Awarded Toronto Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor for Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (2009).
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Cage starred in the science fiction thriller Knowing, directed by Alex Proyas
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According to Forbes, although he failed to make Forbes' Top 10 List in 2014
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Cage starred in the film Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans, directed by acclaimed German director Werner Herzog
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Cage appeared as Joe, a contract killer who undergoes a change of heart while on a work outing in Bangkok, in the film Bangkok Dangerous
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Won Goldene Kamera (2007).
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Cage purchased Midford Castle in Somerset, England
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Had a small but notable role as the Chinese criminal mastermind Dr
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Created a comic book with his son Weston, called Voodoo Child, which was published by Virgin Comics
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Cage's "shopping spree entailed the purchase of three additional residences at a total cost of more than $33 million; the purchase of 22 automobiles (including 9 Rolls Royces), 12 purchases of expensive jewelry, and 47 p
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Awarded Women Film Critics Circle Awards for Lord of War (2005).
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Two films he headlined, Lord of War and The Weather Man, failed to find a significant audience despite nationwide releases and good reviews for his performances
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Bought a property on Paradise Island, Bahamas
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Awarded Chicago International Film Festival Awards (2003).
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And filed for divorce 107 days later on November 25, 2002
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Awarded Toronto Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor for Adaptation (2002).
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With Sonny, a low-budget drama starring James Franco as a male prostitute whose mother (Brenda Blethyn) serves as his pimp
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Was again nominated for Oscar and Golden Globe best actor awards for his portrayal of real-life screenwriter Charlie Kaufman and Kaufman's fictional twin Donald in Adaptation
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Awarded Stinkers Bad Movie Awards (2001).
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Awarded Blockbuster Entertainment Awards for The Family Man (2001).
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Saturn was referred to as "Intermedia-based", suggesting it was part of Intermedia, which was defunct as of 2006
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And Cage had received an insurance payment on the item
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Awarded Blockbuster Entertainment Awards (1999).
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That Cage was "no longer an actor" but "more like a performer
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Awarded Jupiter Awards (1998).
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Awarded Blockbuster Entertainment Awards (1998).
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Awarded MTV Movie Award for Best On-Screen Duo for Face/Off (1998).
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With a motion pictures star located at 7021 Hollywood Boulevard
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Awarded Jupiter Awards (1997).
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Awarded Blockbuster Entertainment Awards for The Rock (1997).
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Awarded MTV Movie Award for Best On-Screen Duo for The Rock (1997).
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Awarded Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role for Leaving Las Vegas (1996).
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Awarded Academy Award for Best Actor for Leaving Las Vegas (1996).
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Won Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama for Leaving Las Vegas (1996).
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Awarded National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actor for Leaving Las Vegas (1996).
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Awarded Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor for Leaving Las Vegas (1996).
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Awarded Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor for Leaving Las Vegas (1996).
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Starred alongside Sean Connery and Ed Harris in Michael Bay's The Rock, the first of a string of action films for Cage
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Awarded New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor for Leaving Las Vegas (1995).
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Earned Silver Shell for Best Actor for Leaving Las Vegas (1995).
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Awarded Boston Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actor for Leaving Las Vegas (1995).
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Awarded Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor for Leaving Las Vegas (1995).
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Awarded National Board of Review Award for Best Actor for Leaving Las Vegas (1995).
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Starred as a helicopter pilot in the action film Fire Birds, which was panned by critics and negatively compared to Top Gun (1986)
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Awarded Sitges Film Festival Best Actor award for Vampire's Kiss (1989).
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Cage starred in the black comedy Vampire's Kiss as a man who falls in love with a vampire and soon begins to believe himself as a vampire
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Cage began dating actress Christina Fulton, with whom he has a son, Weston Coppola Cage (born in 1990)
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With the romantic comedy Moonstruck, in which he starred alongside Cher as a hot-tempered baker
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Cage starred in the little-seen Canadian sports drama The Boy in Blue and his uncle's fantasy comedy Peggy Sue Got Married (1986) as the husband to Kathleen Turner's character
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Cage appeared in three period films, none of which fared well at the box office
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With a minor role as an unnamed co-worker of Judge Reinhold's character in the coming-of-age film Fast Times at Ridgemont High, having originally auditioned for Reinhold's part
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Born 1964-01-07.
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