| Roman Coppola | |
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| Born | April 22, 1965 Neuilly-sur-Seine, France |
| Occupation | Actor, director, producer |
| Years active | 1983–present |
| Parents | Francis Ford Coppola Eleanor Coppola |
| Relatives | Gian-Carlo Coppola (brother) Sofia Coppola (sister) Jason Schwartzman (cousin) Robert Schwartzman (cousin) Nicolas Cage (cousin) Marc Coppola (cousin) Christopher Coppola (cousin) |
Roman Coppola (born April 22, 1965) is an American film director and music video director.
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Coppola was born in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France, the son of set decorator/artist Eleanor Coppola (née Neil) and Francis Ford Coppola. Coppola was born in the American Hospital in Neuilly-sur-Seine while his father was in Paris writing the screenplay of Is Paris Burning?. He attended New York University's film school, the Tisch School of the Arts.
Coppola had a small role as one of the sons of Tom Hagen during the funeral scene in The Godfather. He also played Santino Corleone as a young boy in the 1974 film The Godfather Part II. He oversaw the in-camera visual effects for his father's 1992 film Bram Stoker's Dracula.
Coppola's feature-film debut, CQ premiered at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival.[1] He founded the production company The Directors Bureau and directed all the music videos for songs of The Strokes' albums Is This It and "12:51" for Room on Fire. Coppola has directed clips for artists including Daft Punk, Moby, The Presidents of the United States of America, Ween, Green Day, and Fatboy Slim. He has also been a huge supporter of cousin Jason Schwartzman's musical side project, Coconut Records. His music video for Phoenix's "Funky Squaredance" was invited into permanent collection at the New York Museum of Modern Art. He is an accomplished television commercial director as well. Coppola is now the co-owner of American Zoetrope with his sister Sofia Coppola.[2]
He had a great deal of work in other production realms, including second unit direction for such films as Bram Stoker's Dracula, Jack, The Rainmaker, Youth Without Youth, Tetro (all five directed by his father), The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, The Darjeeling Limited (both films by Wes Anderson; Darjeeling was co-written and produced by Coppola) and his sister Sofia's The Virgin Suicides and Marie Antoinette. He filmed several sequences for Love Actually.
On September 9, 2011, it was announced that Roman Coppola has written and will direct a film entitled A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charlie Swan III. The independent film will star Charlie Sheen and Jason Schwartzman. It will be Sheen's first post-Two and a Half Men role.[3]
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