Nicolas Cage, born in 1964, appeared in over one hundred films, including Face/Off, The Family Man, Gone in 60 Seconds, Captain Corelli's Mandolin, National Treasure, Ghost Rider, Ghost Rider 2. At the age of thirty-two years old he became the fifth youngest actor ever to win the Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance in Leaving Las Vegas.

On December 26, 1990, his first child, Weston Cage, was born from a relationship with the model Christina Fulton. In 1995 he married Patricia Arquette, with whom he acted in 1999 in Beyond Life and from whom he divorced in 2000. In 2002 he married Lisa Marie Presley, daughter of the famous singer Elvis Presley and the actress Priscilla Presley, but the two they broke up after a month and a half of marriage, and then divorced in 2004. Also in 2004, two months after the divorce from Presley, he got married to the Asian waitress Alice Kim, with whom he had his second son, Kal-el , and from which he separated in January 2016. He later also has a relationship with model Kristen Zang.

On 1 July 2014, at the age of 50, he became the grandfather of Lucian August, son of Weston. In 2015, thanks to previous economic problems, he found himself having to pay 96 million dollars to the US tax authorities.

In 2018 he married makeup artist Erika Koike, but asked for the wedding to be annulled just four days later. On February 16, 2021 he married the twenty-six-year-old Riko Shibata for the fifth time. From this union, in September 2022, the daughter August Francesca Coppola Cage was born.

It is estimated that Nicolas Cage spent over $150 million on eccentric purchases: 15 houses, the LaLaurie Mansion that belonged to serial killer Delphine LaLaurie, a three-meter-high pyramid-shaped tomb, a Lamborghini Miura that belonged to the Shah of Persia, a skull of Tarbosaurus bataar, a crocodile, a shark, two albino cobras.