Marie Rivière

Personal Info

Known For Actor

Gender Female

Birthday 1956-12-22 (67 years old)

Place of Birth Montreuil, Seine [now Seine-Saint-Denis], France

Marie Rivière

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.

Known For

Actor

Shreklife

as Nadège

2025
Queen Mom

as Responsable Maintenance

2023
Just the Two of Us

as Blanche’s Mother

2023
The Asembly Line

as Robert’s mum

2020
Eva voudrait

as Emmanuelle

2018
Féminin plurielles

as Professor

2016
Down by Love

as Mère Anna

2015
Courted

as Marie-Laure Racine

2015
This Summer Feeling

as Adélaïde

2014
2013
El Turrrf

as Suzanne

2013
A Castle in Italy

as Nathan's Mother

2013
Bright Days Ahead

as Jocelyne

2010
Memory Lane

as Aude

2009
Hideaway (Le refuge)

as La femme sur la plage

2007
Actresses

as The costume designer

2005
Love Is in the Air

as La mère de Charlotte

2005
Time to Leave

as Mère

2003
Clandestino

as La conductrice

2003
Zéro défaut

as Simone

2001
The Lady and the Duke

as Madame Laurent

2000
Marie-Line

as Louise

2000
Samia

as La conseillère d'orientation

2000
Girls Can't Swim

as Anne-Marie

1999
Venus Beauty Institute

as La cliente aux bottines fourées

1998
A Tale of Autumn

as Isabelle

1993
1992
1988
Rosette vole les voleurs

as Rosette's friend

1987
La nuit du coucou

as Françoise

1987
1986
The Green Ray

as Delphine

1985
Folie suisse

as Anna Daubigny

1985
Rosette vend des roses

as Rosette's friend

1984
Raison perdue

as Paula

1982
Cinématon XVIII

as N°172 / N°173

1981
1980
1978
Cinématon

as N°172 / N°173

1978
Perceval

as Pucelle / Dame / Fille de Garin

1978
Life the Way It Is

as Florence

Writer

2005
1986
The Green Ray

as Writer

Director

2005
Le Canapé rouge

as Director

Camera

2010
In the Company of Éric Rohmer

as Director of Photography

Editor