Talia Shire (born April 25, 1946) is a two-time Academy Award®-nominated American actress.

Biography

Personal life

Shire was born Talia Rose Coppola in Lake Success, New York, the daughter of Italia (née Pennino) and arranger/composer Carmine Coppola.^[1] Her name is in honor of her ancestral country (Italia). Shire is the sister of director and producer Francis Ford Coppola, the aunt of actor Nicolas Cage and director Sofia Coppola, and the niece of composer and conductor Anton Coppola. She was married to composer David Shire, with whom she had a son, Matthew Orlando Shire. She has two other sons, actors/musicians Jason Schwartzman and Robert Carmine, from her second marriage to the late producer Jack Schwartzman.

Career

Shire first became famous for her role of Connie Corleone in The Godfather and its sequels. Later, she portrayed Adrian Pennino (named after Francesco Pennino, Shire's grandfather), the plain-looking girlfriend (and later wife) of boxer Rocky Balboa (played by Sylvester Stallone) in the Rocky movies (before Adrian's death). Shire appears in the final "Rocky" film, Rocky Balboa, in flashbacks from earlier films.

She was nominated for the Academy Award® for Best Supporting Actress for The Godfather: Part II and for the Best Actress in a Leading Role for Rocky. She also appeared as the Geico caveman's therapist in television ads.

Filmography

• The Wild Racers (1968)
• The Dunwich Horror (1970)
• Maxie (1970)
• Gas-s-s-s (1971)
• The Christian Licorice Store (1971)
• The Godfather (1972)
• The Outside Man (1972)
• The Godfather: Part II (1974)
• Rocky (1976)
• Old Boyfriends (1979)
• Rocky II (1979)
• Prophecy (1979)
• Windows (1980)
• Rocky III (1982)
• Rocky IV (1985)
• Rad (1986)
• Hyper Sapien: People from Another Star (1986)
• New York Stories (1989)
• Rocky V (1990)
• The Godfather: Part III (1990)
• Cold Heaven (1991)
• Bed & Breakfast (1991)
• Deadfall (1993)
• A River Made to Drown In (1997)
• She's So Lovely (1997)
• Divorce: A Contemporary Western (1998)
• Can I Play? (1998) (short subject)
• The Avocado Seed (1998)
• The Landlady (1999)
• Lured Innocence (1999)
• Palmer's Pick Up (1999)
• The Visit (2000)
• The Whole Shebang (2001)
• Kiss the Bride (2002)
• Family Tree (2003)
• Dunsmore (2003)
• I ? Huckabees (2004)
• Pomegranate (2005)
• National Lampoon's Homo Erectus (2007)
• Pizza with Bullets (2007)
• Looking for Palladin (2007)

See also

• Coppola family tree

References

External links

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