Eleanor Coppola, Wife of Francis Ford Coppola, Dead at 87

Eleanor Coppola, an award-winning filmmaker and the wife of director Francis Ford Coppola, has died. She was 87 yrs aged.

In a statement shared with the Linked Push, the Coppola household announced that she passed absent “surrounded by her family” at her residence in Rutherford, California, on Friday, April 12. Her bring about of death was not discovered.

Born in Los Angeles, California, on Might 4, 1936, Eleanor was raised in Orange County right before returning to L.A. to study at UCLA, where by she satisfied spouse Francis, 84, functioning on the set of his 1963 horror movie, Dementia 13, for each The Hollywood Reporter.

The pair wed in February that year and share three children collectively: son Gian-Carlo – who died at age 22 in a boating accident in 1986 – son Roman, 58, and daughter Sofia, 55.

Nevertheless Eleanor generally had an curiosity in movie, it was not right until she picked up a digital camera to shoot driving-the-scenes footage of partner Francis’ award-profitable film Apocalypse Now, whose chaotic manufacturing ran for far more than 230 times, that she actually identified her enthusiasm for the craft.

“I never know if [Francis] is just hoping to retain me busy or if he would like to avoid the addition of a skilled crew,” she wrote in Notes: The Earning of Apocalypse Now. “Maybe each.”

The footage captured by Eleanor on the set of her husband’s 1978 war movie attained her an Emmy Award in 1992 for Superb Specific Achievement – Informational Programming – Directing for Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse.

“The commencing of the film strategy for me was surely documenting Apocalypse Now,” she told Deadline in 2017. “I had no plan. I’d created some small artwork movies in the early ’70s, but when I got this camera in the Philippines I was just mesmerized, seeking by the viewfinder. I really responded to that, so I manufactured diverse documentaries, for the reason that I generally liked to shoot.”

In addition to Hearts of Darkness, Eleanor also directed documentaries chronicling the generating of daughter Sofia’s The Virgin Suicides in 1999 and Marie Antoinette in 2006, and directed the 2016 rom-com Paris Can Hold out. Her last director credit score was 2020’s Enjoy Is Like Is Love.

In Oct very last calendar year, Sofia skipped the New York Film Competition for the screening of her movie Priscilla to expend time with her mom.

“I’m so sorry to not be there with you, but I’m with my mom, to whom this film is focused,” the author-director wrote in a statement examine by producer Youree Henley at the time.