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.
Acted in 56
2020s
- 2026
Les Plus beaux gratte-ciel de Paris
Movie
Shreklife
Nadège
- 2025
Queen Mom
Responsable Maintenance
- 2024
Bonus Malus
Movie
Température ambiante
Movie
- 2023
The Assembly Line
Robert’s mum
Marinaleda
Movie
- 2020
Eva voudrait
Emmanuelle
Dark Flow
Movie
2010s
- 2018
Féminin plurielles
Professor
- 2016
- 2015
Courted
Marie-Laure Racine
This Summer Feeling
Adélaïde
- 2014
Madeleine and the Two Apaches
Madeleine
- 2013
El Turrrf
Suzanne
A Castle in Italy
Nathan's Mother
My Sense of Modesty
Movie
- 2012
Under the Snow
Movie
- 2011
Washed Ashore
Movie
- 2010
Memory Lane
Aude
2000s
- 2009
Hideaway (Le refuge)
La femme sur la plage
- 2007
Actresses
The costume designer
- 2005
Time to Leave
Mère
Le Canapé rouge
Movie
Love Is in the Air
La mère de Charlotte
- 2003
Zéro défaut
Simone
- 2001
The Lady and the Duke
Madame Laurent
- 2000
Marie-Line
Louise
Samia
La conseillère d'orientation
Girls Can't Swim
Anne-Marie
1990s
- 1999
Venus Beauty Institute
La cliente aux bottines fourées
- 1998
An Autumn Tale
Isabelle
- 1995
Muriel's Parents Are Desperate
La mere
- 1993
The Stolen Diary
Lucie
- 1992
1980s
- 1988
Les lutteurs immobiles
Judith
Le bonheur se porte large
Isabelle
- 1987
Four Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle
L'arnaqueuse - Swindler
- 1986
- 1984
Raison perdue
Paula
- 1983
The Adventures of Rosette
Movie
- 1982
Chassé-croisé
Movie
- 1981
The Aviator's Wife
Anne
- 1980
Catherine de Heilbronn
Brigitte
1970s
- 1979
Heart to Heart
Une élève du cours de dactylo (uncredited)
- 1978
Cinématon
N°172 / N°173
Médiumnité
Movie
Perceval
Pucelle / Dame / Fille de Garin
Life the Way It Is
Florence
Wrote 2
2000s
- 2005
Le Canapé rouge
Writer
1980s
- 1986
Directed 1
2000s
- 2005
Le Canapé rouge
Director
Appearances1
2000s
- 2005
Les Contes secrets ou les Rohmériens
Self