The daughter of Francis Ford Coppola, Sofia Coppola grew up in Northern California. She made her film debut playing baby Michael Francis Rizzi in her father?s film The Godfather 1972. At two years of age, she made an appearance in The Godfather Part II 1974 as a child on a steamship. Over the next few years she appeared in four more of her father?s films, including The Outsiders 1983, Rumble Fish 1983, The Cotton Club 1984 and Peggy Sue Got Married 1986. She landed a role in a short directed by Tim Burton and a small part in the feature film Anna 1987 directed by Yurek Bogayevicz, before replacing Winona Ryder in The Godfather Part III 1990. Unfortunately, she was awarded with two Razzie awards for her trouble: Worst New Star and Worst Supporting Actress. She made one more film appearance, in Inside Monkey Zetterland 1992, before realizing that rather than acting, she wanted to follow in her father?s footsteps. She enrolled at the California Institute of the Arts to study Fine Arts.Her first film was a short that she wrote and directed, called Lick the Star 1998. She made her feature film directing debut with her own screenplay, The Virgin Suicides 1999, starring Hayden Christensen preStar Wars Episode II, Josh Hartnett and Kirsten Dunst. Directing seemed to be the right choice for Sofia, as she won a Young Hollywood Award for Best Director, as well as an MTV Movie Award for Best New Filmmaker.

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