Frankenweenie (1984) was the first film Coppola performed in that was not associated with her father however, it often goes unnoted due to her stage name "Domino", which she adopted at the time because she thought it was glamorous. Coppola also acted in her father's films The Outsiders (1983), in a scene where Matt Dillon, Tommy Howell, and Ralph Macchio are eating at a Dairy Queen Rumble Fish (1983) The Cotton Club (1984) and Peggy Sue Got Married (1986), in which she portrayed Kathleen Turner's sister Nancy. The best known of these is her appearance in The Godfather as the infant Michael Francis Rizzi, in the baptism scene. Acting career Ĭoppola's acting career, marked by frequent criticisms of nepotism and negative reviews, began while she was an infant, as she made background appearances in seven of her father's films. However, after making her first short film Lick the Star in 1998, she realized it "brought together all the things loved," and decided to continue her directing pursuits. Coppola had many varying interests growing up, including fashion, photography, music, and design, and did not initially intend to become a filmmaker. Among her extensive Hollywood family are her aunt Talia Shire, and her first cousins Nicolas Cage and Jason Schwartzman. After dropping out of college, Coppola started a clothing line called Milkfed, which is now sold exclusively in Japan. She later attended Mills College and the California Institute of the Arts. She is of Italian descent ( Lucanian and Neapolitan ) by her father's side and was raised on her parents' farm in Rutherford, California. Her latest film, On the Rocks, received a limited theatrical release in October 2020 by A24 as well as a streaming release on Apple TV+.Ĭoppola was born in New York City on May 14, 1971, the youngest child and only daughter of documentarian Eleanor ( née Neil) and filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola. At the 2017 Cannes Film Festival, she won Best Director for her work on the drama film The Beguiled, becoming the second woman in the festival's history to win the award. It earned her a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Television Movie. In 2015, Coppola released the Christmas musical comedy special A Very Murray Christmas, starring Bill Murray, on Netflix. In 2013, she directed the satirical crime film The Bling Ring, based on the crime ring of the same name which drew from the Vanity Fair article "The Suspects Wore Louboutins" by Nancy Jo Sales about the real group of burglarizing teens who were "motivated by vanity and worship." The film premiered at the Cannes Film Festival. In 2010, with the drama Somewhere, Coppola became the first American woman (and fourth American filmmaker) to win the Golden Lion, the top prize at the Venice Film Festival. In 2006, Coppola directed the historical drama Marie Antoinette, starring Dunst as the title character. In 2004, Coppola received the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for the comedy-drama Lost in Translation and became the third woman to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Director. It was the first of her collaborations with actress Kirsten Dunst. She then turned her attention to filmmaking.Ĭoppola made her feature-length directorial debut with the coming-of-age drama The Virgin Suicides (1999). Coppola then portrayed Mary Corleone, the daughter of Michael Corleone, in The Godfather Part III (1990). ![]() Coppola later appeared in several music videos, as well as a supporting role in Peggy Sue Got Married (1986). The youngest child and only daughter of filmmakers Eleanor and Francis Ford Coppola, she made her film debut as an infant in her father's acclaimed crime drama film The Godfather (1972). Sofia Carmina Coppola ( / ˈ k oʊ p əl ə/ born May 14, 1971) is an American filmmaker and actress.
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