Talia Shire Her parents were both of Italian descent. Talia is the sister of director and producer Francis Ford Coppola and academic August Coppola, the aunt of actor Nicolas Cage and director Sofia Coppola, and the niece of composer and conductor Anton Coppola. She has three children. Her son Matthew Orlando Shire is the child of her first marriage to composer David Shire. Her other sons, actors/musicians Jason and Robert, are from her second marriage, to the late film producer Jack Schwartzman. Shire portrayed Connie Corleone in "The Godfather" and its sequels. She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting
Sofia Coppola debut with the coming-of-age drama "The Virgin Suicides" (1999), based on the novel of the same name by Jeffery Eugenides. It was the first of her collaborations with actress Kirsten Dunst. In 2003, she received the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for the comedy-drama "Lost in Translation" and became the third woman to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Director. In 2006, Coppola directed the historical drama "Marie Antoinette", starring Dunst as the ill-fated French queen. In 2010, with the drama "Somewhere", Coppola became the first American woman (and fourth American filmmaker) to win the Golden Lion,