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Marie Rivière
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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 drea…
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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.
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BODY OF WORK
Marie Rivière's Filmography
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The Diary of a Chambermaid
as Madame Anne
A Man of His Time
as Réceptionniste
Les Plus beaux gratte-ciel de Paris
Shreklife
as Nadège
At Work
as Paul's Mother
Queen Mom
as Responsable Maintenance
Bonus Malus
Température ambiante
Just the Two of Us
as Blanche’s Mother
The Assembly Line
as Robert’s mum
Marinaleda
Eva voudrait
as Emmanuelle
My Donkey, My Lover & I
as Claire
Dark Flow
Féminin plurielles
as Professor
Down by Love
as Mère Anna
Courted
as Marie-Laure Racine
This Summer Feeling
as Adélaïde
No Poster
Deux rivages
Sex, Love & Therapy
as Martine
Madeleine and the Two Apaches
as Madeleine
El Turrrf
as Suzanne
A Castle in Italy
as Nathan's Mother
Bright Days Ahead
as Jocelyne
My Sense of Modesty
Under the Snow
Washed Ashore
Memory Lane
as Aude
No Poster
In the Company of Éric Rohmer
as Self
Hideaway (Le refuge)
as La femme sur la plage
Actresses
as The costume designer
Time to Leave
as Mère
Le Canapé rouge
Love Is in the Air
as La mère de Charlotte
Les Contes secrets ou les Rohmériens
as Self
No Poster
Clandestino
as La conductrice
Zéro défaut
as Simone
The Lady and the Duke
as Madame Laurent
Marie-Line
as Louise
Samia
as La conseillère d'orientation
Girls Can't Swim
as Anne-Marie
Venus Beauty Institute
as La cliente aux bottines fourées
An Autumn Tale
as Isabelle
Muriel's Parents Are Desperate
as La mere
The Stolen Diary
as Lucie
A Tale of Winter
as Dora
No Poster
Adrien's Sleep
Les lutteurs immobiles
as Judith
Le bonheur se porte large
as Isabelle
No Poster
Rosette vole les voleurs
as Rosette's friend
No Poster
La nuit du coucou
as Françoise Bonnot
Four Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle
as L'arnaqueuse - Swindler
No Poster
Rosette cherche une chambre
as Florence
The Green Ray
as Delphine
No Poster
Folie suisse
as Anna Daubigny
No Poster
Rosette vend des roses
as Rosette's friend
Raison perdue
as Paula
The Adventures of Rosette
No Poster
Rosette sort le soir
as Marie
No Poster
Cinématon XVIII
as N°172 / N°173
Chassé-croisé
The Aviator's Wife
as Anne
Catherine de Heilbronn
as Brigitte
Heart to Heart
as Une élève du cours de dactylo (uncredited)
Cinématon
as N°172 / N°173
Médiumnité
Perceval
as Pucelle / Dame / Fille de Garin
Life the Way It Is
as Florence