Eleanor Coppola
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Eleanor Coppola, (born Eleanor Jessie Neil on May 4, 1936 to an Irish-American family in Los Angeles), a former graduate student in Applied Design at UCLA, is the wife of the famed Francis Ford Coppola, and the daughter-in-law of the late Carmine and Italia Coppola. They met on the set of his directorial debut Dementia 13 in 1962 where she was Assistant Art Director and married a year later. They had three children, including filmmakers/directors Sofia Coppola, Roman Coppola and the late Gian-Carlo Coppola.
During the making of Apocalypse Now, she kept extensive notes which were published in 1979 as Notes on the Making of Apocalypse Now, ISBN 0-87910-150-4; as well as filming behind the scenes which ended up as Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse, for which she was awarded an Academy of Television Arts and Sciences award (an Emmy) for "Outstanding Individual Achievement--Informational Programming--Directing" with her fellow directors, Fax Bahr and George Hickenlooper.
She has been active in the restoration and management of the family's historic Rubicon Estate Winery in the Napa Valley, California, and designs costumes and stage decor for the Oberlin Dance Company of San Francisco.
