Eleanor Coppola, (May 4th, 1936 - ), a graduate in Applied Design from UCLA, is the wife of Francis Ford 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. Their children are filmmakers Sofia Coppola and Roman 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 0879101504; 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 Niebaum-Coppola Winery in the Napa Valley, California, United States, and designs costumes and stage decor for the Oberlin Dance Company of San Francisco.

External links

• The Niebaum-Coppola Winery