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.
Personal Details
Movies (50)
At Work
2026
Queen Mom
as Responsable Maintenance
2025
Bonus Malus
2024
Température ambiante
2024
Just the Two of Us
as Blanche’s Mother
2023
The Asembly Line
as Robert’s mum
2023
Marinaleda
2023
Eva voudrait
as Emmanuelle
2020
My Donkey, My Lover & I
as Claire
2020
Dark Flow
2020
Féminin plurielles
as Professor
2018
Down by Love
as Mère Anna
2016
Courted
as Marie-Laure Racine
2015
This Summer Feeling
as Adélaïde
2015
Deux rivages
2015
Sex, Love & Therapy
as Martine
2014
Madeleine and the Two Apaches
as Madeleine
2014
El Turrrf
as Suzanne
2013
A Castle in Italy
as Nathan's Mother
2013
Bright Days Ahead
as Jocelyne
2013
My Sense of Modesty
2013
Under the Snow
2012
Washed Ashore
2011
Memory Lane
as Aude
2010
In the Company of Éric Rohmer
as Self
2010
Hideaway (Le refuge)
as La femme sur la plage
2009
Actresses
as The costume designer
2007
Le Canapé rouge
2005
Love Is in the Air
as La mère de Charlotte
2005
Time to Leave
as Mère
2005
Les Contes secrets ou les Rohmériens
as Self
2005
Clandestino
as La conductrice
2003
Zéro défaut
as Simone
2003
The Lady and the Duke
as Madame Laurent
2001
Marie-Line
as Louise
2000
Samia
as La conseillère d'orientation
2000
Girls Can't Swim
as Anne-Marie
2000
Venus Beauty Institute
as La cliente aux bottines fourées
1999
A Tale of Autumn
as Isabelle
1998
Muriel's Parents Are Desperate
as La mere
1995
The Stolen Diary
as Lucie
1993
A Tale of Winter
as Dora
1992
Adrien's Sleep
1991
Les lutteurs immobiles
as Judith
1988
Le bonheur se porte large
as Isabelle
1988
Rosette vole les voleurs
as Rosette's friend
1988
La nuit du coucou
as Françoise Bonnot
1987
Four Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle
as L'arnaqueuse - Swindler
1987
Rosette cherche une chambre
as Florence
1987
The Green Ray
as Delphine
1986