Marie Rivière
Acting • Born 1956-12-22
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.
Filmography
65 credits
A Tale of Winter
Movie • 1992
Dora
A Tale of Autumn
Movie • 1998
Isabelle
Time to Leave
Movie • 2005
Mère
The Lady and the Duke
Movie • 2001
Madame Laurent
The Aviator's Wife
Movie • 1981
Anne
Raison perdue
Movie • 1984
Paula
Folie suisse
Movie • 1985
Anna Daubigny
The Stolen Diary
Movie • 1993
Lucie
Girls Can't Swim
Movie • 2000
Anne-Marie
Hideaway (Le refuge)
Movie • 2009
La femme sur la plage
Marinaleda
Movie • 2023
Les lutteurs immobiles
Movie • 1988
Judith
My Sense of Modesty
Movie • 2013
The Green Ray
Movie • 1986
Delphine
Just the Two of Us
Movie • 2023
Blanche’s Mother
Under the Snow
Movie • 2012
Memory Lane
Movie • 2010
Aude
Life the Way It Is
Movie • 1978
Florence
Le bonheur se porte large
Movie • 1988
Isabelle
Bright Days Ahead
Movie • 2013
Jocelyne
Le Canapé rouge
Movie • 2005
Shreklife
Movie
Nadège
Rosette vend des roses
Movie • 1985
Rosette's friend
Marie-Line
Movie • 2000
Louise
Sex, Love & Therapy
Movie • 2014
Martine
Clandestino
Movie • 2003
La conductrice
Zéro défaut
Movie • 2003
Simone
Adrien's Sleep
Movie • 1991
Down by Love
Movie • 2016
Mère Anna
Catherine de Heilbronn
Movie • 1980
Brigitte
This Summer Feeling
Movie • 2015
Adélaïde
In the Company of Éric Rohmer
Movie • 2010
Self
Chassé-croisé
Movie • 1982
Muriel's Parents Are Desperate
Movie • 1995
La mere
Love Is in the Air
Movie • 2005
La mère de Charlotte
Four Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle
Movie • 1987
L'arnaqueuse - Swindler
Madeleine and the Two Apaches
Movie • 2014
Madeleine
Rosette cherche une chambre
Movie • 1987
Florence
Rosette sort le soir
Movie • 1983
Marie
Rosette vole les voleurs
Movie • 1988
Rosette's friend
Samia
Movie • 2000
La conseillère d'orientation
Les Contes secrets ou les Rohmériens
Movie • 2005
Self
Médiumnité
Movie • 1978
Féminin plurielles
Movie • 2018
Professor
Courted
Movie • 2015
Marie-Laure Racine
El Turrrf
Movie • 2013
Suzanne
Cinématon
Movie • 1978
N°172 / N°173
Venus Beauty Institute
Movie • 1999
La cliente aux bottines fourées
Dark Flow
Movie • 2020
Cinématon XVIII
Movie • 1982
N°172 / N°173
Actresses
Movie • 2007
The costume designer
My Donkey, My Lover & I
Movie • 2020
Claire
The Adventures of Rosette
Movie • 1983
Perceval
Movie • 1978
Pucelle / Dame / Fille de Garin
Eva voudrait
Movie • 2020
Emmanuelle
A Castle in Italy
Movie • 2013
Nathan's Mother
Température ambiante
Movie • 2024
Queen Mom
Movie • 2025
Responsable Maintenance
Bonus Malus
Movie • 2024
The Asembly Line
Movie • 2023
Robert’s mum
La nuit du coucou
Movie • 1987
Françoise Bonnot
Washed Ashore
Movie • 2011
At Work
Movie • 2026
Paul's Mother
Deux rivages
Movie • 2015
Heart to Heart
Movie • 1979
Une élève du cours de dactylo (uncredited)