Coppola, Sophia Carmina,
, 1971- , American director, screenwriter, and actress, b.
New York City. The youngest child of director Francis Ford Coppola and documentary filmmaker
Eleanor Neil, Coppola was raised in Southern California. As an actress, she
appeared in many of her father’s films in the 1980s, including all
three of his Godfather films; her role as Michael
Corleone’s daughter in Part III (1990) was not well-received by the
critics, and Coppola herself said she was unhappy with her work. She also
worked as a model in the early 1990s. She showed more interest in directing,
making her first feature film The Virgin Suicides (1999),
and her breakthrough film, Lost in Translation (2003), for
which her screenplay won an Academy Award; she was only the second woman to
win an Oscar for an original script. Other films include the lavish costume
drama Marie Antoinette (2006), Somewhere
(2010; Golden Lion award at the Venice Film Festival), and The
Beguiled (2017; Best Director, Cannes Film Festival).
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