Marie Rivière
Actor
Biography
Marie Rivière (born 22 December 1956) is a French actress and filmmaker. She is known for her collaborations with director Éric Rohmer.
From a working-class background, Marie Rivière grew up on a housing estate/project in Montreuil before working as a schoolteacher, then as a shop assistant. At 21, having seen L'Amour l'après-midi, she sent a letter and photo to Éric Rohmer. He saw her in his office at Les films du losange, in the presence of Arielle Dombasle and Thierry Lhermitte, and offered her a small role in Perceval le Gallois. Two years later she appeared in Rohmer's The Aviator's Wife, the first in the Comédies et Proverbes series. The Green Ray, in which she played the fragile dreamer Delphine, was a critical and popular success, and won the Golden Lion at Venice. In 1998 she appeared again for Rohmer in Conte d'automne (Autumn Tale), alongside another Rohmer muse, Béatrice Romand.
She co-directed her first film in 1993, with Marc Rivière, La Règle du Silence.
As Director
Filmography
My Donkey, My Lover & I
as Claire 2020
Just the Two of Us
as Blanche’s Mother 2023
Sex, Love & Therapy
as Martine 2014
The Green Ray
as Delphine 1986
Courted
as Marie-Laure Racine 2015
Down by Love
as Mère Anna 2016
A Tale of Winter
as Dora 1992
A Tale of Autumn
as Isabelle 1998
Venus Beauty Institute
as La cliente aux bottines fourées 1999
Time to Leave
as Mère 2005
The Aviator's Wife
as Anne 1981
Love Is in the Air
as La mère de Charlotte 2005
Hideaway (Le refuge)
as La femme sur la plage 2009
Four Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle
as L'arnaqueuse - Swindler 1987
Bright Days Ahead
as Jocelyne 2013
A Castle in Italy
as Nathan's Mother 2013
Perceval
as Pucelle / Dame / Fille de Garin 1978