Nicolas Cage and Riko Shibata Welcome Their 1st Child Together

Nicolas Cage’s cutie! The actor’s spouse, Riko Shibata gave start to their first baby together — daughter August Francesca Coppola Cage, Us Weekly can ascertain.

“Nicolas and Riko are satisfied to announce the delivery of their daughter,” the couple stated in a statement on Wednesday, September 7. “Mother and daughter are doing fine.”

Us confirmed in January that the type, 29, was pregnant with the 58-year-old actor’s third child. (The National Treasure superstar previously welcomed sons Weston, 31, and Kal-El, 16, with ex-wives Christina Fulton and Alice Kim, respectively.)

By March, the pair were considering names for their upcoming arrival — Akira Francesco for a boy and Lennon Augie for a lady.

“Augie was once my father’s nickname,” the Oscar winner defined to GQ on the time. “And my uncle [Francis Ford Coppola] has decided to modify his name to Francesco. … [The child] is like a little edamame. A bit of bean.”

Cage, who used to be prior to now married to Patricia Arquette, Lisa Marie Presley, Kim, 38, and Erika Koike, praised Shibata at the time. The filmmaker instructed the opening that every other wedding ceremony is “no longer happening once more” now that he and the Japan local have tied the knot.

The California local defined, “I am a romantic, and once I’m in love, I wish to give that particular person the whole thing I can. It’s my expression of claiming, ‘I like you. I need to spend the remainder of my existence with you.’ And this is it for me. … This is it. This is it.”

The couple tied the knot in February 2021 after being presented by mutual pals in Shiga, Japan, as Cage filmed Prisoners of the Ghostland there.

“I believed she was shocking after I met her. We had a lot in not unusual,” the Golden Globe winner gushed to Entertainment Tonight 5 months after their nuptials. “She likes animals, too, so I asked her, ‘Do you may have any pets?’ And she mentioned, ‘Yes, I have flying squirrels.’ She had two sugar gliders. … I assumed, ‘That’s it. This could determine.'”

While the Leaving Las Vegas star tends to stay his circle of relatives existence non-public, his eldest son did discuss to The Hollywood Reporter in 2019 about his adolescence.

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“My dad offered me to one of the crucial biggest films in history from an early age, things like Seven Samurai, Rebel Without a Cause, the original Dracula, the entire greats, so that was a big influence from him,” the singer defined at the time.

As for Cage’s personal youth, he felt “alienated,” telling The New York Times in August 2019, “I was always surprised when my father would take me to a doctor and they didn’t inform me that my blood used to be inexperienced and I had 20 ribs, that I wasn’t some anomaly from outer area. But I’ve transform extraordinarily uninterested in myself. I spend my time staring at films or studying books and being with my son. That’s about it, with the occasional hiccup.”

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