Acting
Marie Rivière
FR, IT cinema · 68 credits
Born
22 December 1956 (age 69)
Birthplace
Montreuil, Seine [now Seine-Saint-Denis], France
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.
Known for
Filmography
Shreklife
as Nadège
At Work
as Paul's Mother
The Diary of a Chambermaid
as Madame Anne
A Man of His Time
as Réceptionniste
Queen Mom
as Responsable Maintenance
Just the Two of Us
as Blanche’s Mother
The Assembly Line
as Robert’s mum
My Donkey, My Lover & I
as Claire
Eva voudrait
as Emmanuelle
Féminin plurielles
as Professor
Down by Love
as Mère Anna
This Summer Feeling
as Adélaïde
Courted
as Marie-Laure Racine
Sex, Love & Therapy
as Martine
Madeleine and the Two Apaches
as Madeleine
Bright Days Ahead
as Jocelyne
El Turrrf
as Suzanne
A Castle in Italy
as Nathan's Mother
Memory Lane
as Aude
En compagnie d'Eric Rohmer
2010
In the Company of Éric Rohmer
as Self, Director of Photography, Director, Writer, Editor
Hideaway (Le refuge)
as La femme sur la plage
Actresses
as The costume designer
Time to Leave
as Mère
Le Canapé rouge
Actor, Director, Writer
Love Is in the Air
as La mère de Charlotte
Clandestino
2003
Clandestino
as La conductrice
Zéro défaut
as Simone
The Lady and the Duke
as Madame Laurent
Girls Can't Swim
as Anne-Marie
Marie-Line
as Louise
Samia
as La conseillère d'orientation
Venus Beauty Institute
as La cliente aux bottines fourées
An Autumn Tale
as Isabelle
The Stolen Diary
as Lucie
A Tale of Winter
as Dora
Les lutteurs immobiles
as Judith
Le bonheur se porte large
as Isabelle
Rosette vole les voleurs
1988
Rosette vole les voleurs
as Rosette's friend
Four Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle
as L'arnaqueuse - Swindler
La nuit du coucou
1987
La nuit du coucou
as Françoise Bonnot
The Green Ray
as Delphine, Writer
Folie suisse
1985
Folie suisse
as Anna Daubigny
Rosette vend des roses
1985
Rosette vend des roses
as Rosette's friend
Raison perdue
as Paula
Cinématon XVIII
1982
Cinématon XVIII
as N°172 / N°173
Catherine de Heilbronn
as Brigitte
Heart to Heart
as Une élève du cours de dactylo (uncredited)
Life the Way It Is
as Florence
Cinématon
as N°172 / N°173
Perceval
as Pucelle / Dame / Fille de Garin