The director and wife of Francis Ford Coppola was 87 years old

Filmmaker Eleanor Coppola, the matriarch of a Hollywood heavyweight who directed an Emmy-winning film about the making of husband Francis Ford Coppola’s 1979 Oscar-winning film “Apocalypse Now,” has died.

Coppola’s representative told USA TODAY that Coppola died Friday at the age of 87 at her home in Rutherford, California, “surrounded by her loving family.”

She and “The Godfather” writer/director Ford Coppola married in 1963, a year after the pair met on the set of her first film, the low-budget, dark horror film “Dementia 13,” and they enjoyed 61 .years of marriage.

Together, they had three children – Gian-Carlo (“Gio”) Coppola, who died at the age of 22 in a boating accident, as well as filmmaker Roman Coppola, who received an Oscar nomination as one of Wes’ screenwriters Anderson’s 2012 film “Moonrise Kingdom,” and Sofia Coppola, whose film “Lost in Translation” won her an Academy Award in 2003.