19 April,2011 11:50 AM IST | | Special Features
Here's an actor who is making news for all the wrong reasons. Nicolas Cage was recently jailed (and subsequently bailed out) for assaulting his wife while under the effect of alcohol. CS tells you more about the man:
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>> Nicolas has appeared in over 60 films including Raising Arizona, The Rock, Face/Off, Gone In 60 Seconds, Ghost Rider, Kick-Ass. At 32, he became the fifth youngest actor ever to win the Oscar for Best Actor for Leaving Las Vegas.
>>u00a0His actual birth name is Nicholas Kim Coppola. He is the nephew of director Francis Ford Coppola (who's made films like The Godfather 1,2,3.) To avoid favouritism, Nicolas changed his name to Nicolas Cage, inspired in part by the Marvel Comics superhero Luke Cage.
>>u00a0Nicolas has been married three times. His first wife was the actress Patricia Arquette. His second wife was singer/songwriter Lisa Marie Presley, the daughter of Elvis Presley, on whom he based his performance in Wild at Heart. They filed for divorce after 108 days of marriage. The divorce proceeding was longer than the marriage. His third and current wife Alice Kim, a former waitress who previously worked at a Los Angeles restaurant met Nic at a nightclub.
>>u00a0One of Hollywood's highest-paid actors, he charged $20,000,000 for the film National Treasure.
