
Marie Rivière
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
Credits
- 2026 · At Work as
- 2023 · Just the Two of Us as Blanche’s Mother
- 2023 · Marinaleda as
- 2020 · My Donkey, My Lover & I as Claire
- 2020 · Dark Flow as
- 2018 · Féminin plurielles as Professor
- 2016 · Down by Love as Mère Anna
- 2015 · Deux rivages as
- 2014 · Sex, Love & Therapy as Martine
- 2014 · Madeleine and the Two Apaches as Madeleine
- 2013 · El Turrrf as Suzanne
- 2013 · A Castle in Italy as Nathan's Mother
- 2013 · My Sense of Modesty as
- 2010 · Memory Lane as Aude
- 2009 · Hideaway (Le refuge) as La femme sur la plage
- 2007 · Actresses as The costume designer
- 2005 · Le Canapé rouge as
- 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
- 2001 · The Lady and the Duke as Madame Laurent
- 2000 · Samia as La conseillère d'orientation
- 1993 · The Stolen Diary as Lucie
- 1992 · A Tale of Winter as Dora
- 1991 · Adrien's Sleep as
- 1987 · La nuit du coucou as Françoise Bonnot
- 1987 · Rosette cherche une chambre as Florence
- 1985 · Rosette vend des roses as Rosette's friend
- 1984 · Raison perdue as Paula
- 1983 · The Adventures of Rosette as
- 1981 · The Aviator's Wife as Anne
- 1979 · Heart to Heart as Une élève du cours de dactylo (uncredited)
- Future · Shreklife as Nadège
- 2025 · Queen Mom as Responsable Maintenance
- 2024 · Bonus Malus as
- 2024 · Température ambiante as
- 2023 · The Asembly Line as Robert’s mum
- 2020 · Eva voudrait as Emmanuelle
- 2015 · Courted as Marie-Laure Racine
- 2015 · This Summer Feeling as Adélaïde
- 2013 · Bright Days Ahead as Jocelyne
- 2012 · Under the Snow as
- 2011 · Washed Ashore as
- 2010 · In the Company of Éric Rohmer as Self
- 2003 · Clandestino as La conductrice
- 2003 · Zéro défaut as Simone
- 2000 · Marie-Line as Louise
- 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
- 1995 · Muriel's Parents Are Desperate as La mere
- 1988 · Les lutteurs immobiles as Judith
- 1988 · Le bonheur se porte large as Isabelle
- 1988 · Rosette vole les voleurs as Rosette's friend
- 1987 · Four Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle as L'arnaqueuse - Swindler
- 1986 · The Green Ray as Delphine
- 1985 · Folie suisse as Anna Daubigny
- 1983 · Rosette sort le soir as Marie
- 1982 · Cinématon XVIII as N°172 / N°173
- 1982 · Chassé-croisé as
- 1980 · Catherine de Heilbronn as Brigitte
- 1978 · Cinématon as N°172 / N°173
- 1978 · Médiumnité as
- 1978 · Perceval as Pucelle / Dame / Fille de Garin
- 1978 · Life the Way It Is as Florence