Generations The first generation originates from
Bernalda in the region of
Basilicata. Agostino "August" Coppola (1882–1946) immigrated to the United States circa 1905. He married Maria Zasa (1887–1974) (also from Bernalda) on January 25, 1908. They had seven children — Archimedes,
Carmine, Pancrazzo, Mario,
Anton, Edward and Clarence - of whom two, Anton and Carmine, would continue the family’s legacy in the entertainment industry. Out of the seven second generation Coppola siblings, only Anton and Carmine worked in the entertainment industry in the 20th century. Carmine worked as a composer with his wife
Italia Pennino, had three children: university professor
August Floyd, filmmaker
Francis Ford, and actress
Talia Rose. Carmine’s brother, Anton, also a composer and conductor, and had three children as well. However, neither Anton’s children nor any of his descendants, would go into the entertainment industry. From the third generation on, those Coppolas working in the industry all descend from Carmine Coppola and his three children. Although Carmine’s son August was a professor and not in the entertainment industry, all three of his children - actor and DJ Marc, actor-director
Christopher, and actor Nicolas Kim, better known as
Nicolas Cage - were or are, part of the fourth Coppola generation in the industry. Carmine’s other son, Francis Ford, was the first Coppola to reach superstardom and fame in Hollywood, as a director and producer. Like his older brother August, Francis Ford and his wife
Eleanor Neil had three children, and all three are in entertainment: producer
Gian-Carlo, filmmaker
Roman François, and former actress and filmmaker
Sofia Carmina, the only granddaughter of Carmine and Italia. Therefore, all six children of the two third generation Coppola brothers, August and Francis, were actively worked in the entertainment industry until Gian-Carlo's death from a speedboat accident in 1986. Carmine’s youngest child and only daughter Talia, was a Hollywood actress and adopted the Shire family name upon her marriage to
David Shire, just like her two older brothers, has three children from her two marriages: screenwriter Matthew Orlando Shire from her first marriage to Shire, and actor-screenwriter-musician
Jason Schwartzman and director-actor-musician
Robert Schwartzman from her second marriage to
Jack Schwartzman. Carmine died in 1991, eight of his surviving grandchildren, are continuing the family's legacy.
Gian-Carla "Gia" Coppola, granddaughter of Francis Ford, went on to become a filmmaker and also continuing to follow this legacy.
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