Cage And Arquette Call It Quits

Only last year, Academy Award-winning actor Nicolas Cage and actress Patricia Arquette appeared together in the drama Bringing Out the Dead, directed by Martin Scorsese. Now comes word, though Cage's publicist, that they are ending their five-year marriage.

The couple married in April 1995 and separated nine months later, according to a divorce petition Cage filed in Los Angeles Superior Court on Thursday.

Cage and Arquette cited "irreconcilable differences" for seeking a divorce, said publicist Annett Wolf, who declined to elaborate on the breakup.

In the petition, Cage asked the court to honor a property division agreement he and Arquette made in 1996.

A best actor Oscar-winner in 1995 for his role as an alcoholic in Leaving Las Vegas, Cage, 36, next appears as a car thief in the thriller Gone in Sixty Seconds.

Arquette, 31, the sister of actors David and Rosanna Arquette, is perhaps best known for her role as a possessed woman in last year's horror film Sigmata. She also starred in Flirting With Disaster (1996).

Cage and Arquette each have one son from previous relationships but no children together.

Cage, the nephew of filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola, made his film debut in 1982's Fast Times at Ridgemont High and first gained fame in 1987's Raising Arizona.