Age: 62
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Nicolas Cage (born Nicolas Kim Coppola; January 7, 1964) is an American actor and filmmaker. He is the recipient of various accolades, including an Academy Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, and a Golden Globe Award. During the early years of his career, Cage starred in a variety of films such as Rumble Fish (1983), Racing with the Moon (1984), Peggy Sue Got Married (1986), Raising Arizona (1987), Vampire's Kiss (1989), Wild at Heart (1990), Honeymoon in Vegas (1992), and Red Rock West (1993). During this period, John Willis' Screen World, Vol. 36 listed him as one of twelve Promising New Actors of 1984. For his performance in Leaving Las Vegas (1995), he won the Academy Award for Best Actor. He received his second Academy Award nomination for his performance as Charlie and Donald Kaufman in Adaptation (2002). He subsequently appeared in more mainstream films, such as The Rock (1996), Con Air (1997), City of Angels (1998), 8mm (1999), Windtalkers (2002), Lord of War (2005), The Wicker Man (2006), Bangkok Dangerous (2008) and Knowing (2009). He also directed the film Sonny (2002), for which he was nominated for Grand Special Prize at Deauville Film Festival. Cage owns the production company Saturn Films and has produced films such as Shadow of the Vampire (2000) and The Life of David Gale (2003). In October 1997, Cage was ranked No. 40 in Empire magazine's The Top 100 Movie Stars of All Time list, while the next year, he was placed No. 37 in Premiere's 100 most powerful people in Hollywood. In the 2010s, he starred in Kick-Ass (2010), Drive Angry (2011), Joe (2013), The Runner (2015), Dog Eat Dog (2016), Mom and Dad (2017), Mandy (2018), Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018), and Color Out of Space (2019). His participation in various film genres during this time increased his popularity and gained him a cult following.
Nicolas Cage
Jones Lilac
for Jones Lilac in IronFall: Timelines
Suggested by underworld_stories
The Gatekeeper, corrupted by the last of Lynn’s psychic energy, opens a rift in time—desperate to preserve what remains of her. As timelines blur, Ken and Lara are pulled across fractured realities, fighting to stop a collapse that threatens existence itself. Jones Lilac, the Gatekeeper's creator and E-Tech’s former lead mechanic, emerges with a plan: revive Lynn fully through time distortion. Obsessed, he believes her power was never meant to fade. Ken and Lara are forced to split—Lara trapped inside the Gatekeeper labyrinth, while Ken confronts echoes of his past, including a younger San before he joined E-Tech. Ken and San share a heartfelt goodbye, Ken knows he must let his brother go to save time itself. Meanwhile, Lara overcomes the maze’s illusions and reunites with Ken at the rift’s edge. Together, they confront Jones. As Ken prepares to battle the Gatekeeper, Jones betrays them. Lara kills him—but in doing so, they lose the only way to close the rift. Ken realizes the only path is through the Gatekeeper itself—through Lynn. In a final sacrifice, Ken lets the Gatekeeper kill him, reaching the last memory of Lynn buried within. Touched, the Gatekeeper absorbs the rift—and everything fades to white. Lara awakens in a peaceful world. No tech, no chaos. In a quiet village, she finds Ken and San, now simple tavern workers, unaware of who she is. Lynn never existed. Lara, holding back tears, asks to stay. Ken smiles. “Of course. You’re welcome here.”
