Hi, welcome to WatchMojo.com. This is Leslie and welcome to our segment on Celebrity Connections. This week were going to be talking about the Coppola Family.
The central member of this family of course the famous Director Francis Ford Coppola but it doesn’t end there. Francis Ford Coppola was born to parents Carmine and Italia Coppola. His father was a composer. His mother was an actress. So it started right at the roots. Then there was Francis Ford Coppola.
Francis Ford Coppola has many siblings. One of them is named August, we’ll comeback to him in a minute. He is the professor of comparative literature and then of course, his sister is Talia Shire. That’s right. Talia Shire is Francis Ford Coppola sister. You may remember her as Adrian in Rocky. You may also remember that she was my Michael Corleone’s sister in her brother’s movie The Godfather. Her brother cast her had actually launched her career.
So, let’s talk about Talia Shire for a minute. Talia Sire is very interesting. She actually had two widely publicized marriages. The first one was to a guy named David Shire. Now, David Shire that marriage ended in divorce in the late 70’s but it did produce one child named Matthew.
She later went on to marry a guy by the name of Jack Schwartzman. So, Jack Schwartzman is the father of Talia Shire’s two step children but he’s also the father of four more famous children notably Jason Schwartzman, who you might know from Rushmore, and of course, Robert Schwartzman, whose -- he's the front man of the band called Rooney and he was also in for example the Princess Stories. He was the -- he was 11 at that time.
If we move back over to her brother Francis Ford Coppola and his offsprings. Francis has a bunch of kids. One of them is named Gian-Carlo, who unfortunately pass away in a boating accident in 1986, although, an interesting tip about Gian-Carlo Coppola is that his father’s friend George Lucas paid tribute to him by naming a speed racer in the phantom menace, the Gian after him.
Another interesting thing about Francis Ford Coppola of course is that his daughter is Sofia Coppola. And Sofia Coppola along with her brother Roman, another one of Francis Ford’s children started off in the Godfather movie they have bit parts of the Coppola with actually the baby boy in the first Godfather movie at the end and in the christening its -- that’s little baby Sofia Coppola. And Sofia Coppola started her real -- her first star in role was in the Godfather Part III, where she brutally massacres the role of Mary Corleone.
The only interesting part about this is that Mary Corleone, well, Mary is the name of Francis Ford Coppola’s other daughter who is not an actress. So, are you following me so far? She played Mary which is actually her sister’s name. She butchered the role. She left the public eye for awhile and then reemerged to become a really famous director and she actually became the third member of her family to win an Oscar.
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