 robert coppola schwartzman (born december 24, 1982) is an american actor and musician. schwartzman is also best known as the lead vocalist of the rock/pop band rooney. he has also acted in the short black-and-white film lick the star and the virgin suicides, both directed and co-written by his cousin sofia coppola, as well as the princess diaries. ==personal life== schwartzman was born in los angeles, california, he is the youngest of three boys for talia shire(nÃ©e coppola) and the late producer jack schwartzman. many other members of schwartzman's family are involved in film: he is the nephew of francis ford coppola, cousin of nicolas cage, sofia coppola, roman coppola and christopher coppola, and grandson of italia coppola (nÃ©e pennino) and carmine coppola (the source of his old stage name) and his niece, gia coppola. his brother is jason schwartzman, lead singer of the band coconut records (also an actor and former drummer of the band phantom planet) and his half-brother is cinematographer john schwartzman. schwartzman is of jewish descent on his father's side and of italian descent on his mother's side.interfaith celebrities five beautiful women a violinist and one - interfaithfamily.com ==career== schwartzman attended windward school in los angeles, california. schwartzman formed his band rooney in his junior year of school in 1999. he left the band temporarily when he attended eugene lang college in new york city in 2001. schwartzman wrote songs in his dorm room and flew home every month to perform new material for rooney in his first semester at college. most of the songs on the first rooney album were written while in college. it was during this time that he realized that he wanted to go back to los angeles and pursue a professional career in music with rooney. shortly after he left school, he was signed to geffen/interscope records in early 2002. rooney recorded their debut self-titled album in june 2002. they also were selected by schwartzman's friend, johnny ramone, for the ramones tribute album entitled we're a happy family, which was released in early 2003. rooney opened for weezer during their headlining tour in the sum
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