Graduated UCLA School of Theater, Film, and Television.
Cousin of Sofia Coppola and Roman Coppola.
On "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno" he told that he took the name "Cage" from a comic book character named Luke Cage, the "first black superhero." When asked which of the powers he would prefer to have, he said flight was his desire.
Has a son, Weston Coppola-Cage, born 1992
Together with actors Lee Marvin (Cat Ballou )and Peter Sellers (Dr. Stranglove), he 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) Lee Marvin is the only one who actually got one for a double role.
Cousin by marriage to director Spike Jonze.
Met wife Alice Kim at a sushi bar where she was a waitress. She was only 20-years-old at the time they married.
Went to the same High School as Angelina Jolie, Michael Klesic, Lenny Kravitz, David Schwimmer, Jonathan Silverman, Gina Gershon, Rhonda Fleming, Jackie Cooper, Rob Reiner, Antonio Sabato Jr., Pauly Shore, Michael Tolkin, Betty White, Corbin Bernsen, E.G. Daily, Albert Brooks and Crispin Glover.
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