Nicholas Cage Biography

- Cage owns a Lamborghini that used to belong to the Shah of Iran.

- Cage suffers from vertigo.

- Together with actors Lee Marvin (Cat Ballou (1965)) and Peter Sellers (_Dr. Stranglove (1964)_ ), Cage is the only actor with an Oscar nomination for playing multiple characters in a film (in Adaptation. (2002), he plays two characters, Donald and Charlie). Marvin is the only one who actually won one for a double role.

- Cage is (along with his cousin Sofia Coppola) the third generation of Oscar winners in the Coppola family. His uncle, Francis Ford Coppola and his grandfather, Carmine Coppola, are the other two generations. They are the second family to do so, the first family is the Hustons - Anjelica Huston, John Huston and Walter Huston.

- Cage is credited under the name Nicolas Coppola for the first and only time in Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982).