Domenica Cameron-Scorsese was born in 1976 to
Julia Cameron and
Martin Scorsese. As a newborn, her mother took her from the hospital straight to the set of
New York, New York, which her father was directing. Cameron-Scorsese's parents divorced about a year after she was born, and she lived with her mother for the majority of her childhood. She often visited her father. One of her earliest memories was eating M&Ms in the editing room of
Raging Bull, and she appeared in his films
Cape Fear (1991) and
The Age of Innocence (1993) as a teenager. She also acted in her mother's play, ''God's Will
, in 1989. She appeared in the three-part anthology film New York Stories'' in the second segment, which was directed by
Francis Ford Coppola and written by Coppola and
Sofia Coppola. Cameron-Scorsese spent her childhood in different cities including
New York,
Chicago,
Los Angeles, and
Taos, New Mexico, where she graduated from high school. She attended
Wesleyan University, where she was a member of the Middletown Chapter of the
Alpha Delta Phi Literary Society. She took a class on
Alfred Hitchcock that deepened her appreciation of film. During a yearlong study abroad program at
Trinity College Dublin, she wrote and directed a play about date rape. == Career ==