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

A Tale of Autumn
A Tale of Autumn
Time to Leave
Time to Leave
The Lady and the Duke
The Lady and the Duke
The Aviator's Wife
The Aviator's Wife
Raison perdue
Raison perdue
The Stolen Diary
The Stolen Diary
Girls Can't Swim
Girls Can't Swim
Hideaway (Le refuge)
Hideaway (Le refuge)

Filmography

2026 À pied d’œuvre
as
2025 Queen Mom
as Responsable Maintenance
2024 Bonus Malus
as
2024 Température ambiante
as
2023 Just the Two of Us
as Blanche’s Mother
2023 The Asembly Line
as Robert’s mum
2023 Marinaleda
as
2020 Eva voudrait
as Emmanuelle
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 Courted
as Marie-Laure Racine
2015 This Summer Feeling
as Adélaïde
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 Bright Days Ahead
as Jocelyne