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,November 2012, interview with Marie Riviere 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.
Filmography Year Title Role Director Notes1978 Perceval le Gallois Garin's daughter Éric Rohmer La vie comme ça Florence Jean-Claude Brisseau TV movie1979 Confidences pour confidences A student Pascal Thomas 1980 Catherine de Heilbronn Brigitte Éric Rohmer (2) TV movie1981 The Aviator's Wife Anne Éric Rohmer (3) La vie des autres Catherine Sarrazin Jean-Pierre Prévost TV series (1 episode)1982 Chassé-croisé Arielle Dombasle 1983 Life Is a Bed of Roses Alain Resnais Rosette sort le soir Marie Rosette Short1984 Raison perdue Paula Michel Favart TV movie1985 Folie suisse Anna Daubigny Christine Lipinska Rosette vend des roses Rosette's friend Rosette (2) Short1986 The Green Ray Delphine Éric Rohmer (4) Also writerVenice Film Festival - Pasinetti Award for Best Actress La Barbe-bleue The dead Alain Ferrari TV movie Le rire de Caïn Marcel Moussy TV mini-series1987 Four Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle Swindler Éric Rohmer (5) Rosette cherche une chambre Florence Rosette (3) Short Côté nuit Jean-Baptiste Huber Short La nuit du coucou Françoise Michel Favart (2) TV movie1988 Le bonheur se porte large Isabelle Alex Métayer Rosette vole les voleurs Rosette's friend Rosette (4) Short Les lutteurs immobiles Judith André Farwagi TV movie1989 Papa est parti, maman aussi The mother Christine Lipinska (2) 1990 Les bottes de sept lieues Hervé Baslé TV movie1991 Le sommeil d'Adrien Caroline Champetier Short Paparoff Didier Albert TV series (1 episode)1992 A Tale of Winter Dora Éric Rohmer (6) Le cahier volé Lucie Christine Lipinska (3) 1993 Couples et amants Juliette John Lvoff 1995 Muriel fait le désespoir de ses parents Muriel's Mum Philippe Faucon Sept en attente Françoise Etchegaray La règle du silence Co-director Marie & Marc Rivière TV movie 1996 Les jumeaux Mother Catherine Klein Short1998 Autumn Tale Isabelle Éric Rohmer (7) 1999 Venus Beauty Institute The client with boots Tonie Marshall 2000 Girls Can't Swim Anne-Marie Anne-Sophie Birot Marie-Line Louise Mehdi Charef Samia The counselor Philippe Faucon (2) 2001 The Lady and the Duke Madame Laurent Éric Rohmer (8) Le temps qu'il fait Nicolas Leclère Short L'interpellation Hélène Brunel Marco Pauly TV movie 2003 Zéro défaut Simone Pierre Schoeller Clandestino The driver Paule Muxel Anna, 3 kilos 2 Laurette Polmanss Short Un autre homme Catherine Klein (2) Short2005 Time to Leave The mother François Ozon Love Is in the Air Charlotte's mother Rémi Bezançon Le canapé rouge The woman Éric Rohmer (9) Short2007 Actrices The costume designer Valeria Bruni Tedeschi Romance of Astree and Celadon Céladon's mother Éric Rohmer (10) Femme femme Annie Marina Deak Short 2009 The Refuge The woman on the beach François Ozon (2) Adresse inconnue Adèle Fontaine Alain Wermus TV series (1 episode) 2010 Memory Lane Aude Mikhaël Hers 2011 La noyée Elise Mathieu Hippeau Short2012 El Turrrf Suzanne Louis-Ronan Choisy Short Sous la neige Mother Aurélien Héraud Short Lupa Clémentine Poidatz Short2013 Bright Days Ahead Jocelyne Marion Vernoux A Castle in Italy Nathan's mother Valeria Bruni Tedeschi (2) Où je mets ma pudeur The teacher Sébastien Bailly Short La peur The teacher Grégoire Pontécaille Short2014 The Missionaries Martine Tonie Marshall (2) Madeleine et les deux Apaches Madeleine Christelle Lheureux Short Petit lapin Eva's mother Hubert Viel Short2015 Courted Marie-Laure Racine Christian Vincent This Summer Feeling Adélaïde Mikhaël Hers (2) Deux femmes au cinéma Mathieu Hippeau (2) Short2016 Down by Love Anna's mother Pierre Godeau
Theater Year Title Author Director 1979 Das Käthchen von Heilbronn Heinrich von Kleist Éric Rohmer 2004 La Cour Monique Jouvancy Bruno Boussagol 2009 Elisa's Skin Carole Fréchette Carole Anderson 2014 Balakat Delphine Hecquet Delphine Hecquet
Author Year Book Publishing Notes 1988 Un amour aux assises Bernard Barrault Novel
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External links
marie riviere.com