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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. Sofia Carmina Coppola 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. In 2013, she directed the satirical crime film The Bling Ring, based on the crime ring of the same name which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival.Īt 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. 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.

After her performance drew criticism, she 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 ( Template:IPAc-en born May 14, 1971) is an American filmmaker and actress.

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