Gia Coppola In March 2016, Coppola announced that her next feature would be an adaptation of Jean Nathan's "The Secret Life of the Lonely Doll", a biopic on Dare Wright, author of the children's book "The Lonely Doll". Jessica Lange and Naomi Watts were both attached to star in the project. Gia Coppola Gian-Carla "Gia" Coppola (born January 1, 1987) is an American film director, screenwriter, and actress. She is a granddaughter of Francis Ford Coppola, the daughter of Gian-Carlo Coppola and the niece of Roman Coppola and Sofia Coppola. Coppola is the daughter of Gian-Carlo Coppola and Jacqui de la Fontaine.
Sofia Coppola films. The best known of these is her appearance in "The Godfather" as the infant Michael Francis Rizzi, in the baptism scene. Coppola returned to her father's trilogy in both the second and third "Godfather" films, playing an immigrant child in "The Godfather Part II" and Michael Corleone's daughter in "The Godfather Part III", after the originally cast actress, Winona Ryder, discontinued her involvement with the film. Coppola responded to a question about her role in "The Godfather Part III" in a 2013 interview:Let's see. Did I not wanna do it? Um. I was game. I was trying different things.