Nicholas Cage(I)

Nicholas got the acting bug when he was 6 and by the time he was15 he'd dropped out of high school to train at the American Conservatory Theatre which in turn led to some small tv roles, Despite not wanting to build his career on his family relationship with director Francis Ford Coppola, he changed his name when he was 17, he actually made his first significant film appearance in his uncle's 1983 film Rumble Fish (1983) and made a major career surge with an Oscar winning performance in Leaving Las Vegas (1995), He has a son Weston Coppola Cage, born 1960 after he'd abandoned the boy's mother, kristina Fulton, In 1995 he married actress Patricia Arquette who he originally met in 1987.