Star Facts
- Sophia is the first American woman to be nominated for an Academy Award for Directing
- Her first movie role was as a baby (boy!) in The Godfather
- Designer Marc Jacobs has named a bag after her, The Sofia
- At the age of 11 she took the stage name Domino because she thought it was glamorous
Sofia Carmina Coppola Quotes
That's the way I work: I try to imagine what I would like to see
Biography:
Born into a Hollywood dynasty, top director Sofia’s dad is the legendary Godfather filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola. Her mum is a set designer, her grandfather an Oscar-winning soundtrack composer, her brother Roman a director, and her aunt Talia Shire and cousins Nicholas Cage and Jason Schwartzman are top actors too.
Starting out as an actress and model, she studied at the California Institute of the Arts, interned with Chanel when she was 15, and started a Japan-based clothing label Milkyfed.
As an actress she made background appearances in seven of her dad's films, famously taking over from Winona Ryder to be brutally gunned down by the mob in The Godfather III, winning a Razzie for Worst New Star in the process. She ain’t done much acting since...
These days Sofia is an Academy Award-winning director in her own right, making films where the sun’s filmed through leaves and people gaze out of car windows a lot. Her acclaimed directorial debut came in 1999 with The Virgin Suicides, followed by the Oscar-winning Lost in Translation, which launched Scarlett Johansson’s movie career and brought Bill Murray’s back from the dead. She’s continued her little-rich-girl-lost schtick with the less successful biopic Marie Antoinette and the semi-autobiographical Somewhere in 2010.
Along the way, Sofia was married to achingly hip director Spike Jonze for 4 years, dated her old friend Quentin Tarantino, and is now set to marry French band Phoenix’ frontman Thomas Mars, living in Paris with their two daughters Romy and Cosima.