Eleanor Coppola

About

Francis Ford Coppola's wife who made several documentaries about her family. She is credited with directing the on-set footage for the famous documentary Heart of Darkness, released in 1991. 

Before Fame

She met her future husband on the set of the film Dementia 13 in 1962.

Trivia

She chronicled her husband's attempts to control the filming of Apocalypse Now, which later turned into one of her best-known documentaries. 

Family Life

Her daughter Sofia Coppola became a respected filmmaker. 

Associated With

Her film Heart of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse showed a vulnerable Martin Sheen visibly shaken during Apocalypse Now's production.