Sofia Coppola

Personal details

Birth Name: Sofia Carmina Coppola
Date of Birth: 14 May 1971, New York, USA
Height: 5' 5½" (1.66 m)

Sofia Coppola’s Profession:

• Actor
• Costume Designer
• Director
• Executive Producer
• Producer
• Screenwriter

Personal life:

Spouse: Spike Jonze (26 June 1999 - 9 December 2003) (divorced)

A serious friendship of more than many years has now turned into a deeper relationship with Quentin Tarantino. This is recently following Sofia's separation from her husband, Spike Jonze.

Sofia and her boyfriend, "Phoenix" vocalist Thomas Mars, became the parents of a girl, Romy, on November 28, 2006 in Paris, France.

Sofia Coppola’s family background:

Cousin of Jason Schwartzman and Nicolas Cage.

Daughter of director Francis Ford Coppola and Eleanor Coppola

Sister of Roman Coppola.

Niece of Talia Shire

Sofia Coppola’s childhood:

She studied photography at Mills College in Oakland, California, just east of San Francisco, and painting at the California Institute of the Arts (Cal-Arts) in Valencia, California, just north of Los Angeles.

Nominations, Academy awards, & achievements:

Third woman in history who was nominated for a Best Director Academy Award.

First American woman who was nominated for best director Oscar in the year 2004

She is from amongst the chosen few who have won both an Academy Award and a Razzie.

Another 67 wins & 50 nominations more.

Lost in translation movie was nominated for four Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Actor for Bill Murray, and Best Director for Sofia Coppola. Coppola won Best Original Screenplay.

Facts about Sofia Coppola’s

Sofia and her ex-husband Spike Jonze received Oscar nominations for Best Director. This has made them the first married couple in the history to do so.

When she was awarded the 2004 Oscar win for screen writing, she was now in the same boat with all her family members who have won Oscar winners in three generations with her father, Francis Ford Coppola, grandfather, Carmine Coppola, and cousin, Nicolas Cage, all winners.

Has stated that her favorite band is The Chemical Brothers.

Designer Marc Jacobs named a bag after her: The Sofia Bag.

She is a designer for street fashion known as Milkfed that she humbly refers to as "a tiny t-shirt company"

Career as an actor in movies

She was one of the cast members who were involved in all three of The Godfather films, along with Al Pacino.

Played the christened baby in The Godfather (1972),
Played the role of a child on a steamboat in _The Godfather II (1974)
Played a role of Mary Corleone in _The Godfather III (1990)

This director has also appeared earlier in the Star Wars series, as the handmaiden Sache in Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999).

Career as a director

Hayden Christensen in the Virgin Suicides (1999)
Rose Byrne in Marie Antoinette (2006).

The second feature film written and directed by Sofia Coppola, after The Virgin Suicides Is the Lost in Translation in the year 2003 which is a comedy drama film.

"You're considered superficial and silly if you are interested in fashion, but I think you can be substantial and still be interested in frivolity." – (quoted by her while conversing to this director about the subject matter of her movie, Marie Antoinette (2006)