Nicolas Cage a nephew of director Francis Ford Coppola and of actress Talia Shire, and the cousin of directors Roman Coppola and Sofia Coppola, film producer Gian-Carlo Coppola, and actors Robert Carmine and Jason Schwartzman. Cage's two brothers are New York radio personality Marc "The Cope" Coppola and director Christopher Coppola. He attended Beverly Hills High School, which is known for its many alumni who became entertainers. He aspired to act from an early age and also attended UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television. His first non-cinematic acting experience was in a school production of "Golden Boy". He said he started
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.