Phoenix thomas mars sofia coppola kids

Sofia Coppola knows what it's like to be a celebrity kid. The daughter of director Francis Ford Coppola has mostly kept her two kids, Romy and Cosima Mars, out of the spotlight throughout the years. "I don't want them ever to be jaded," Sofia told The Guardian in 2017 on why she shields her kids from the public eye. "I never saw the point of taking little kids to movie premieres and stuff. I just want them to have a childhood."

Things changed, however, when Romy recently shared a TikTok explaining that she'd been grounded for trying to charter a helicopter. "Make a vodka sauce pasta with me because I'm grounded because I tried to charter a helicopter from New York to Maryland on my dad's credit card because I wanted to have dinner with my camp friend," Romy says in the March 21 video. She doesn't go on to make any pasta, though — instead she provides an intimate window into her family life.

"My parents' biggest role is I'm not allowed to have any public social media accounts. Here's why," she says, holding up a Grammy won by her dad, musician Thomas Mars. "They don't want me to be a nepotism kid, but TikTok is not gonna make me famous, so it doesn't matter." Of course, the TikTok went viral, with Jezebel calling it a "cinematic masterpiece." The video has since been taken down, but it did provide us with a rare glimpse into the world of a legacy nepo baby.

Sofia married French musician Mars, who is the frontman for the band Phoenix, in 2011. The pair connected in 1999 when his band worked on the soundtrack of Sofia's film "The Virgin Suicides," per Grazia, and their first child was born in 2006. Previously, Sofia was married to director Spike Jonze from 1999 to 2003.

Ahead, learn more about the Coppola family and Sofia's two daughters.

Romy Croquet Mars

Romy was born in November 2006. Her name is a tribute to Sofia's older brother and fellow director, Roman Coppola, according to Time.

Romy Mars, the teenage daughter of Oscar-winning director Sofia Coppola, has launched her music career with two new singles.

Born to Coppola and her husband, Thomas Mars, frontman of the French indie pop band Phoenix, Romy released the debut songs on Wednesday (22 May). The tracks were produced by bedroom pop artist Claud.

Both “Stuck Up” and “From a Distance” feature Romy singing in a deadpan, confessional style over pared-back instrumentation, including shuffling percussion and buoyant acoustic guitar strums.

She was previously brought to the internet’s attention thanks to a viral TikTok in 2023.

In the clip, Romy made pasta with a vodka sauce while regaling viewers with a tale about how she was grounded for trying to charter a helicopter from New York to Maryland using her father’s credit card so she could hang out with her friend.

She claimed to not know the difference between garlic and onions, and introduced viewers to her babysitter’s boyfriend “because my parents are never home so these are my replacement parents”.

She also posed with her father’s Grammy and said she started a TikTok against her parents’ wishes: “They don’t want me to be a nepotism kid but TikTok’s not gonna make me famous.”

The now-deleted TikTok racked up millions of views and likes, with many fans declaring Romy “the greatest nepo baby”.

Romy’s mother, Sofia Coppola, met her father Thomas Mars while he was working on music for her film The Virgin Suicides. They have since collaborated on the music for all of Coppola’s ensuing films, including her critically acclaimed 2023 biopic Priscilla.

She told The Guardian in a 2017 interview that she had endeavoured to keep her two daughters, Romy and Cosima, out of the spotlight. “I don’t want them to ever feel jaded and I’ve never seen the value of taking kids to premieres or things like that,” she said.

French musician (born 1976)

Thomas Pablo Croquet (born 21 November 1976), known professionally as Thomas Mars, is a French musician and the lead singer of the French indie pop band Phoenix.

Early life

Thomas Pablo Croquet was born on 21 November 1976 in Versailles, France. Croquet was originally inspired to learn English by his uncle, Horst.

Croquet formed the band Phoenix with schoolfriends Chris Mazzalai and Deck d'Arcy. Mazzalai's older brother, Laurent Brancowitz, also joined the band after the break-up of Darlin'. Croquet says that he "destroyed every single other option that would lead me to any potential career other than music", attending college for only four days, studying economics.

Career

Croquet is the frontman of the band Phoenix, which formed in 1995. He adopted a stage name, Thomas Mars, along with other bandmates in order to "sound cooler". In an interview, the band's bassist Deck D'Arcy said that he and Mars started playing music when they were around 11-years-old. The band eventually became a full-time profession for Mars following his dropping out of college. The band pressed 500 copies of a single on their own label before being signed to Paris-based label, Source Records.

Mars wrote and produced Phoenix's first charting single in France, "Too Young", which peaked at number 97. Eventually Phoenix's first studio album, United was released in 2000, shipping 150,000 units worldwide. The band has released seven a

Sofia Coppola has always kept her two daughters, Romy and Cosima, largely out of the public eye, but after she recently grounded her eldest, Romy, the 16-year-old retaliated with her official nepo baby debut.

The teenager went viral overnight on TikTok and beyond, after sharing a video of herself on the social media platform, revealing that her parents had grounded her after she attempted to charter a helicopter – on her dad's credit card – to fly from New York City to Maryland, in order to have dinner with her "camp friend."

Romy and her sister Cosima, 12, are the acclaimed director's daughters with Thomas Mars, 46, a French Indie-pop singer. In the now viral TikTok, Romy even flashes one of her dad's Grammys to explain why she wasn't allowed to have public social media accounts.

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Sofia, 51, and her Grammy-winning husband, of the band Phoenix, tied the knot in 2011. They met while collaborating on the soundtrack for The Virgin Diaries, starring Kirsten Dunst, which premiered in 1999.

The beloveddirector was previously married to fellow filmmaker Adam Spiegel, known professionally as Spike Jonze, from 1999 to 2003. His 2003 movie Her, starring Joaquin Phoenix, is widely thought to be a response to Lost in Translation, his ex-wife's film with Scarlett Johansson and Bill Murray, which came out the year they divorced.

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In Romy's video, she is seen in her family home's kitchen, telling the camera that, since she is grounded, she is staying in and going to cook pasta with spicy vodka sauce. She then admits she's "embarrassed" beca