Actor Nicolas Cage and wife expecting child

LOS ANGELES - Oscar winner Nicolas Cage and his wife of nearly seven months are expecting a child, the actor's publicist said.

It would be the first child for Cage, 41, and his wife, the former Alice Kim, his spokeswoman told Reuters. No due date was given.

The actor and his wife, whose pregnancy was first reported by the syndicated TV show "Access Hollywood," met at a nightclub last year before marrying on July 30, 2004. She is a former waitress about 20 years his junior.

Cage, who won an Academy Award as best actor for his role as an alcoholic bent on drinking himself to death in "Leaving Las Vegas," has a son by a prior relationship with actress Kristina Fulton.

His previous marriages to actress Patricia Arquette and singer Lisa Marie Presley ended in divorce.

Cage, the nephew of famed director Francis Ford Coppola, recently began shooting the film "Ghost Rider" in Australia. He was last in theaters starring in the action adventure "National Treasure."

- REUTERS