

However, after making her first short film Lick the Star in 1998, she realized it "brought together all the things loved," and decided to continue her directing pursuits. Coppola had many varying interests growing up, including fashion, photography, music, and design, and did not initially intend to become a filmmaker. 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. Early life Ĭoppola 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 2015, Coppola released the Netflix Christmas musical comedy special A Very Murray Christmas, starring Bill Murray, which earned her a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Television Movie. She has since directed the historical drama Marie Antoinette (2006), the family drama Somewhere (2010), the satirical crime drama The Bling Ring (2013), the southern gothic thriller The Beguiled (2017), and the comedy On the Rocks (2020). Coppola received the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for the comedy-drama Lost in Translation (2003), and became the third woman to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director. It was the first of her collaborations with actress Kirsten Dunst.

Coppola then portrayed Mary Corleone, the daughter of Michael Corleone, in The Godfather Part III (1990).Ĭoppola transitioned her career into filmmaking by making her feature-length directorial debut with the coming-of-age drama The Virgin Suicides (1999). 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). She has received numerous accolades, including an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, a Golden Lion, and a Cannes Film Festival Award, as well as a Primetime Emmy Award nomination. Sofia Carmina Coppola ( / ˈ k oʊ p əl ə/ born ) is an American filmmaker and actress.
