Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Sofia Carmina Coppola (born May 14, 1971) is an American film director, actress, producer and screenwriter. She was the third female director to be nominated for an Academy Award for Directing.Coppola was born in New York City, New York, the youngest child and only daughter of set decorator/artist Eleanor Coppola (née Neil) and director Francis Ford Coppola (The Godfather and Apocalypse Now), granddaughter of the late composer Carmine Coppola, sister of Roman Coppola and the late Gian-Carlo Coppola, niece of her father''s siblings August Coppola and Talia Shire and a cousin of Nicolas Cage, Jason Schwartzman and Robert Carmine.