An American actor, producer and director. He has performed in leading roles in a variety of films, ranging from romantic comedies and dramas to science fiction and action movies. Cage is known for his prolificacy, appearing in at least one film per year, nearly every year since 1980 (with the exception of 1985 and 1991). In the early years of his career, Cage starred in critically acclaimed films such as Valley Girl (1983), Racing with the Moon (1984), Birdy (1985), Peggy Sue Got Married (1986), Raising Arizona (1987), Moonstruck (1987), Vampire's Kiss (1989), Wild at Heart (1990), Honeymoon in Vegas (1992), and Red Rock West (1993). Cage received an Academy Award, a Golden Globe, and Screen Actors Guild Award for his performance as an alcoholic Hollywood writer in Leaving Las Vegas (1995) before coming to the attention of wider audiences with mainstream films such as The Rock (1996), Face/Off (1997), Con Air (1997), City of Angels (1998) and National Treasure (2004). He earned his second Academy Award nomination for his performance as Charlie and Donald Kaufman in Adaptation (2002). In 2002, he directed the film Sonny for which he was nominated for Grand Special Prize at Deauville Film Festival. Cage owns a production company, Saturn Films, and produced films such as Shadow of the Vampire (2000) and The Life of David Gale (2003). Though his performances in The Weather Man (2005), Lord of War (2005), The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (2009), and Kick-Ass (2010) earned critical acclaim, and films such as Ghost Rider (2007) and Knowing (2009) were box office successes, Cage has been strongly criticized in recent years for his choice of roles, some of which have been universally panned. Most recently, he voiced the character of Grug in the animated film The Croods.
Movie | National Treasure: Revenge of the Puzzlemaster | Benjamin Franklin Gates | 2025 |
Movie | Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse | Peter Parker / Spider-Man Noir (voice) | 2025 |
Movie | Arcadian | Paul | 2024-04-12 |
Movie | Butcher's Crossing | Miller | 2023-02-03 |
Movie | Renfield | Dracula | 2023-04-07 |
Movie | The Old Way | Colton Briggs | 2023-01-06 |
Movie | The Flash | Clark Kent / Superman (uncredited) | 2023-06-13 |
Movie | Dream Scenario | Paul Matthews | 2023-11-10 |
Movie | Sympathy for the Devil | The Passenger | 2023-07-20 |
Movie | The Retirement Plan | Matt | 2023-08-24 |
Movie | The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent | Nick Cage / Nicky | 2022-04-20 |
Series | History of Swear Words | Self - Host | 2021-01-05 |
Movie | Dear Diary: World's First Pranks | Grug (voice) | 2021-02-09 |
Movie | Pig | Rob Feld | 2021-07-16 |
Movie | Willy's Wonderland | The Janitor | 2021-02-12 |
Movie | Prisoners of the Ghostland | Hero | 2021-08-31 |
Movie | Kill Chain | AraƱa | 2020-02-20 |
Movie | Jiu Jitsu | Wylie | 2020-11-20 |
Movie | The Croods: A New Age | Grug Crood (voice) | 2020-11-25 |
Movie | Primal | Frank Walsh | 2019-12-27 |
Movie | A Score to Settle | Frank | 2019-08-01 |
Movie | Love, Antosha | Narrator (voice) | 2019-08-02 |
Movie | Grand Isle | Walter | 2019-12-06 |
Movie | Color Out of Space | Nathan Gardner | 2019-09-07 |
Movie | Running with the Devil | The Cook | 2019-08-29 |
Movie | Looking Glass | Ray | 2018-02-16 |
Movie | Mom and Dad | Brent Ryan | 2018-01-19 |
Movie | 211 | Mike Chandler | 2018-05-30 |
Movie | Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse | Peter Parker / Spider-Man Noir (voice) | 2018-12-06 |
Movie | Between Worlds | Joe | 2018-12-21 |
Movie | Teen Titans Go! To the Movies | Superman (voice) | 2018-07-27 |
Movie | Mandy | Red Miller | 2018-09-13 |
Movie | Becoming Iconic | Self | 2018-08-01 |
Movie | Arsenal | Eddie King | 2017-01-06 |
Movie | The Humanity Bureau | Noah Kross | 2017-07-11 |
Movie | Inconceivable | Brian | 2017-06-30 |
Movie | Vengeance: A Love Story | Det. John Dromoor | 2017-03-16 |
Movie | The Trust | Jim Stone | 2016-04-29 |
Movie | Snowden | Hank Forrester | 2016-09-15 |
Movie | USS Indianapolis: Men of Courage | Captain McVay | 2016-09-22 |
Movie | Army of One | Gary Faulkner | 2016-11-04 |
Movie | Dog Eat Dog | Troy | 2016-11-04 |
Movie | HyperNormalisation | Self (archive footage) | 2016-10-25 |
Movie | The Death of "Superman Lives": What Happened? | Self (archive footage) | 2015-05-01 |
Movie | Pay the Ghost | Mike | 2015-09-16 |
Movie | The Runner | Colin Price | 2015-08-07 |
Movie | Joe | Joe Ransom | 2014-04-11 |
Movie | Rage | Paul Maguire | 2014-05-09 |
Movie | Outcast | Gallain | 2014-09-26 |
Movie | Left Behind | Rayford Steele | 2014-10-03 |
Movie | Dying of the Light | Evan Lake | 2014-12-04 |
Movie | The Frozen Ground | Jack Halcombe | 2013-07-11 |
Movie | The Croods | Grug Crood (voice) | 2013-03-15 |
Movie | Stolen | Will Montgomery | 2012-09-06 |
Movie | Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen | (archive footage) | 2012-02-04 |
Movie | The Path to Vengeance: Making 'Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance' | Himself | 2012-06-12 |
Movie | Season of the Witch | Behman | 2011-01-07 |
Movie | Drive Angry | Milton | 2011-02-24 |
Movie | Seeking Justice | Will Gerard | 2011-09-02 |
Movie | Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance | Johnny Blaze / Ghost Rider | 2011-12-10 |
Movie | Trespass | Kyle Miller | 2011-10-13 |
Movie | Kick-Ass | Damon Macready / Big Daddy | 2010-03-22 |
Movie | The Sorcerer's Apprentice | Balthazar Blake | 2010-07-13 |
Movie | I am My Films, Part 2... 30 Years Later | Self (archival footage) | 2010-06-28 |
Movie | With Great Power: The Stan Lee Story | Self | 2010-07-24 |
Movie | G-Force | Speckles the Mole (voice) | 2009-07-24 |
Movie | Knowing | John Koestler | 2009-03-19 |
Movie | Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call - New Orleans | Terence McDonagh | 2009-09-11 |
Movie | Astro Boy | Dr. Tenma (voice) | 2009-10-15 |
Movie | Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired | Self (archive footage) | 2008-01-18 |
Movie | Bangkok Dangerous | Joe | 2008-08-21 |
Movie | Ghost Rider | Johnny Blaze / Ghost Rider | 2007-01-15 |
Movie | Werewolf Women of the S.S. | Fu Manchu | 2007-04-06 |
Movie | Next | Cris Johnson / Frank Cadillac | 2007-04-25 |
Movie | Grindhouse | Fu Manchu (segment "Werewolf Women of the SS") (uncredited) | 2007-04-06 |
Movie | National Treasure: Book of Secrets | Benjamin Franklin Gates | 2007-12-13 |
Movie | Moonstruck: At the Heart of an Italian Family | Self (archival footage) | 2006-01-31 |
Movie | The Wicker Man | Edward Malus | 2006-08-31 |
Movie | The Ant Bully | Zoc (voice) | 2006-07-28 |
Movie | World Trade Center | John McLoughlin | 2006-08-09 |
Movie | Lord of War | Yuri Orlov | 2005-09-16 |
Movie | The Weather Man | David Spritz | 2005-10-20 |
Movie | Live 8 | Self | 2005-11-07 |
Movie | Crossings: John Woo | Self | 2004-06-20 |
Movie | National Treasure | Benjamin Franklin Gates | 2004-11-19 |
Movie | Love, Death, Elvis & Oz: The Making of 'Wild at Heart' | himself | 2004-12-07 |
Movie | Matchstick Men | Roy Waller | 2003-09-12 |
Movie | Valley Girl: In Conversation - Nicolas Cage And Martha Coolidge | Self | 2003-08-05 |
Movie | Valley Girl: 20 Totally Tubular Years Later | Self | 2003-08-05 |
Series | HypaSpace | Self | 2002-05-13 |
Movie | Adaptation. | Charlie Kaufman / Donald Kaufman | 2002-12-06 |
Movie | Sonny | Acid Yellow | 2002-10-26 |
Movie | Windtalkers | Sergeant Joe Enders | 2002-06-14 |
Movie | Christmas Carol: The Movie | Jacob Marley (voice) | 2001-12-07 |
Movie | Captain Corelli's Mandolin | Captain Antonio Corelli | 2001-04-18 |
Movie | The Family Man | Jack Campbell | 2000-12-12 |
Movie | Gone in Sixty Seconds | Memphis Raines | 2000-06-09 |
Movie | Bringing Out the Dead | Frank Pierce | 1999-10-22 |
Movie | 8MM | Tom Welles | 1999-02-26 |
Movie | Mythos Hollywood - Das Geheimnis des Erfolgs | Self | 1998-01-01 |
Movie | City of Angels | Seth | 1998-04-10 |
Movie | Snake Eyes | Rick Santoro | 1998-08-07 |
Movie | Intimate Portrait: Sean Connery | Self | 1998-10-02 |
Movie | Junket Whore | Self | 1998-10-12 |
Movie | Face/Off | Castor Troy | 1997-06-27 |
Movie | Con Air | Cameron Poe | 1997-06-05 |
Movie | The Rock | Dr. Stanley Goodspeed | 1996-06-07 |
Movie | Shirley Maclaine: Kicking Up Her Heels | Self | 1996-05-19 |
Movie | Kiss of Death | Little Junior Brown | 1995-04-21 |
Movie | Leaving Las Vegas | Ben Sanderson | 1995-10-27 |
Movie | Guarding Tess | Doug Chesnic | 1994-03-11 |
Movie | Trapped in Paradise | Bill Firpo | 1994-12-02 |
Movie | It Could Happen to You | Charlie Lang | 1994-07-29 |
Movie | Deadfall | Eddie | 1993-10-08 |
Movie | Red Rock West | Michael Williams | 1993-05-14 |
Movie | Amos & Andrew | Amos Odell | 1993-03-05 |
Movie | Honeymoon in Vegas | Jack Singer | 1992-08-28 |
Movie | Zandalee | Johnny Collins | 1991-05-09 |
Movie | Fire Birds | Jake Preston | 1990-05-25 |
Movie | Wild at Heart | Sailor Ripley | 1990-08-17 |
Movie | Industrial Symphony No. 1: The Dream of the Brokenhearted | Heartbreaker | 1990-12-01 |
Movie | Never on Tuesday | Man in Red Sports Car (uncredited) | 1989-04-13 |
Movie | Time to Kill | Enrico Silvestri | 1989-09-10 |
Movie | Vampire's Kiss | Peter Loew | 1988-09-17 |
Movie | Raising Arizona | H.I. | 1987-03-13 |
Movie | Moonstruck | Ronny Cammareri | 1987-12-16 |
Movie | The Boy in Blue | Ned Hanlan | 1986-01-17 |
Movie | Peggy Sue Got Married | Charlie Bodell | 1986-10-10 |
Movie | Racing with the Moon | Nicky / Bud | 1984-03-23 |
Movie | The Cotton Club | Vincent Dwyer | 1984-12-14 |
Movie | Birdy | Sergeant Al Columbato | 1984-12-14 |
Movie | Rumble Fish | Smokey | 1983-10-09 |
Movie | Valley Girl | Randy | 1983-04-08 |
Movie | Fast Times at Ridgemont High | Brad's Bud | 1982-08-13 |
Movie | The Best of Times | Nicolas | 1981-07-13 |
Movie | Brubaker | Prisoner (uncredited) | 1980-06-20 |