尼可拉斯·凯吉（nicolas cage，1964年1月7日－），原名nicholas kim coppola，出生于美国加州长滩，父亲为义大利裔，大导演法兰西斯·科波拉的侄子，17岁进入电影行业，为免受其家族名声的影响，改姓「凯吉」。1992年因在大卫·林奇的公路影片《我心狂野》中扮演男主角而获第43届坎城电影节金棕榈大奖。1996年又凭借《离开拉斯维加斯》中扮演的酒鬼一角夺得当年度奥斯卡最佳男主角奖。而后转型于动作类影片，并且获得成功。他的头发发线在近年开始后移，他对此极介怀，不喜欢记者问他有关头发的问题。演出影片一览
鸟人（birdy）（1984）
我心狂野（1990）
爱在纽约（it could happen to you）（1994）
远离**（le**ing las vegas）（1995）
绝地任务（the rock）（1996）
变脸（face off）（1997）
空中监狱（con air）（1997）
x情人（city of angles）（1998）
蛇眼（snake eyes）（1998）
8毫米（8mm）（1998）
穿梭阴阳界（bringing out the dead）（1999）
扭转奇迹（the family man）（2000）
惊天动地60秒（gone in sixty seconds）（2000）
战地情人（captain corelli's mandolin）（2001）
风语者（windtalkers）（2002）
改编剧本（2003）
火柴人（matchstick man）（2003）
**宝藏（national treasure）（2004）
**之王（lord of war）（2005）
气象先生（the weather man）（2005）
世贸中心（world trade center）（2006）
恶灵线索（the wicker man）（2006）
灵魂战车（ghost rider）（2007）
关键下一秒（next）（2007）
**宝藏：古籍秘辛（national treasure 2:book of secrets）（2007）
曼谷**（bangkok dangerous）（2008）
先知（knowing）（2009）
nicolas cage(born nicolas kim coppola;january 7,1964)** an american academy award-winning actor,film director,and producer,who currently manages h** own production company,saturn films.
cage was born in long beach,california.h** father,august coppola,** a professor of literature,while cage's mother,joy vogelsang,** a dancer and choreographer;the two divorced in 1976.cage's mother ** of german descent and h** father ** of italian descent(h** paternal great-grandparents were immigrants from bernalda,basilicata).h** paternal grandparents are carmine coppola,a composer,and italia pennino,an actress.through h** father,cage ** the nephew of director franc** ford coppola and actress talia shire,as well as the cousin of directors roman coppola and sofia coppola and actors robert carmine and jason schwartzman.cage's two brothers are chr**topher coppola,a director;and marc"the cope"coppola,a new york radio personality.cage was born into a roman catholic household and remains catholic to th** day,although he said in the mid-1990s that he was not religious.
cage,who attended beverly hills high school(the same high school as fellow entertainers albert brooks,angelina jolie,lenny kr**itz,slash,rob reiner,bonnie franklin and d**id schwimmer),aspired to act from an early age.cage also attended ucla school of theatre,film,and telev**ion.h** first non-cinematic acting experience was in a school production of golden boy.he ** also good friends with fellow actor johnny depp,whom he adv**ed to get into acting.
in order to **oid the appearance of nepot**m as the nephew of franc** ford coppola,he changed h** name from nicolas coppola to nicolas cage early in h** career.the assumed surname ** inspired by marvel comics character luke cage,a streetw**e superhero.since h** cameo feature film debut in fast times at ridgemont high,with sean penn,cage has appeared in a wide range of films,both mainstream and offbeat.he tried out for the role of dallas winston in h** uncle's film the outsiders,based on s.e.hinton's novel,but lost to matt dillon.he was also in coppola's film rumble f**h.
cage has been nominated twice for an academy award,and won once,for h** performance as a suicidal alcoholic in le**ing las vegas.h** other nomination was for h** portrayal of real-life screenwriter charlie kaufman and kaufman's fictional twin donald in adaptation.despite these successes,most of h** lower-profile films h**e performed poorly at the box office compared to h** mainstream action/adventure roles.the suspense thriller 8mm(1999)was not a box office success,but ** now considered a cult film.in 2005,two offbeat films he headlined,lord of war and the weather man,failed to find a significant audience despite nationwide releases and good reviews for h** acting in those roles.poor reviews for the wicker man resulted in low box office sales.the much criticized ghost rider(2007),based on the marvel comics chararacter,was a significant hit,earning than$45 million(the top earner)during its opening weekend and over$208 million worldwide through the weekend ending on 25 march 2007.also in 2007,he starred in next,which shares the concept of a glimpse into an alternate timeline with the family man(2000).
most of cage's movies that h**e achieved financial success were in the action/adventure genre.in h** second-highest grossing film to date,national treasure,he plays an eccentric h**torian who goes on a dangerous adventure to find treasure hidden by the founding fathers of the united states.other action hits include the rock,in which cage plays a young fbi chemical weapons expert who infiltrates alcatraz **land in hopes of neutralizing a terror**t threat,face/off,a john woo film where he plays both a hero and a villain,and world trade center,director oliver stone's film regarding the september 11,2001 attacks.he had a small but notable role as the chinese criminal mastermind dr.fu manchu in rob zombie's fake trailer werewolf women of the s.s.from the b-movie double feature grindhouse.
in recent years,cage made h** directorial debut with sonny,a low-budget drama starring james franco as a male prostitute whose mother(brenda blethyn)serves as h** pimp.[1]cage had a small role in the grim film,which received poor reviews and a short run in a limited number of theatres.cage's producing career includes shadow of the vampire,the first film from saturn films,cage ** l**ted as the executive producer of the the dresden files on the sci-fi channel.