Marc Coppola (actor) cousin of director Sofia Coppola, Robert Schwartzman, actor and lead singer of the band Rooney, and actor and former Phantom Planet drummer Jason Schwartzman. Coppola's brother is actor Nicolas Cage. Coppola is married to actress Elizabeth Seton Brindak. They have two children; Natasha Coppola-Shalom, who is an actress, and Cayley Coppola. Coppola entered the film industry at a young age thanks to his family. He first appeared in "Apocalypse Now" (1979) where he was also in the casting department. Coppola acted in 11 other films and two episodes of "Law & Order". He worked as a DJ at KLOS 95.5
Francis Ford Coppola the latter's first film, "THX 1138". Shortly after completion of production they brought the finished film to Warner Bros., along with several other scripts for potential projects at their newly founded company, American Zoetrope. However, studio executives strongly disliked all the scripts, including "THX" and demanded that Coppola repay the $300,000 they had loaned him for the Zoetrope studio, as well as insisting on cutting five minutes from the film. The debt nearly closed Zoetrope and forced Coppola to reluctantly focus on "The Godfather". His company American Zoetrope also administers the Zoetrope Virtual Studio, a complete motion picture production studio