Nicolas Cage and Riko Shibata, 27, expecting their first child together

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By Carina Murphy

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Hollywood icon Nicolas Cage is expecting his third child.

The 58-year-old actor and his fifth wife - 27-year-old Riko Shibata - are welcoming their first child together nearly one year after tieing the knot.

A representative for the couple confirmed the news to People, adding that "the parents-to-be are elated!"

The Ghost Rider star - whose real name is Nicolas Coppola - already has two sons.

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Cage and Shibata in November 2021. Sipa US / Alamy

He shares his eldest son - 31-year-old Weston Coppola - with his ex-girlfriend Christina Fulton, and his current youngest - 16-year-old Kal-El Coppola - with ex-wife Alice Kim.

Shibata is Cage's fifth wife. The pair wed on February 16, 2021, in what a rep described as a "very small and intimate wedding at the Wynn Hotel in Las Vegas."

They first met in 2020 in Shiga, Japan, where the actor was filming Prisoners of the Ghostland.

The besotted couple made their red carpet debut in July 2021 at the premiere of Cage's film Pig - shortly after he had announced their engagement on his brother Marc Coppola's radio show.

"She left New York and went back to Kyoto, Japan, and I went back to Nevada and I haven’t seen her for six months," the actor said. "We’re really happy together and we’re really excited to spend that time together so I finally just said ‘Look, I wanna marry you’ and we got engaged on FaceTime."

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Cage and second wife Lisa Marie Presley in 2001. Credit: Allstar Picture Library Ltd / Alamy

National Treasure actor Cage is no stranger to whirlwind romances. Before settling down with fellow actress Shibata he has been married four times.

He divorced his first wife, Oscar winner Patricia Arquette, in 2001 after six years together.

Then in 2002, he tied the knot with Elvis Presley's daughter, the singer-songwriter Lisa Marie Presley. But their relationship didn't last, and the pair filed for divorce just 107 days later.

Cage split from his third wife Alice Kim - with whom he shares son Kal-El - in 2016.

But it was his fourth marriage to Erika Koike in 2019 that made headlines when it lasted just four days.

He and Shibata are approaching their one-year anniversary, after marrying on February 16, 2021.

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