# Marie Rivière

Marie Rivière (French pronunciation:; 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

| Year | Title | Role | Director | Notes |
| 1978 | Perceval le Gallois | Garin's daughter | Éric Rohmer | |
| 1978 | La vie comme ça | Florence | Jean-Claude Brisseau | TV movie |
| 1979 | Confidences pour confidences | A student | Pascal Thomas | |
| 1980 | Catherine de Heilbronn | Brigitte | Éric Rohmer (2) | TV movie |
| 1981 | The Aviator's Wife | Anne | Éric Rohmer (3) | |
| 1981 | La vie des autres | Catherine Sarrazin | Jean-Pierre Prévost | TV series (1 episode) |
| 1982 | Chassé-croisé | | Arielle Dombasle | |
| 1983 | Life Is a Bed of Roses | | Alain Resnais | |
| 1983 | Rosette sort le soir | Marie | Rosette | Short |
| 1984 | Raison perdue | Paula | Michel Favart | TV movie |
| 1985 | Folie suisse | Anna Daubigny | Christine Lipinska | |
| 1985 | Rosette vend des roses | Rosette's friend | Rosette (2) | Short |
| 1986 | The Green Ray | Delphine | Éric Rohmer (4) | Also writer Venice Film Festival - Pasinetti Award for Best Actress |
| 1986 | La Barbe-bleue | The dead | Alain Ferrari | TV movie |
| 1986 | Le rire de Caïn | | Marcel Moussy | TV mini-series |
| 1987 | Four Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle | Swindler | Éric Rohmer (5) | |
| 1987 | Rosette cherche une chambre | Florence | Rosette (3) | Short |
| 1987 | Côté nuit | | Jean-Baptiste Huber | Short |
| 1987 | La nuit du coucou | Françoise | Michel Favart (2) | TV movie |
| 1988 | Le bonheur se porte large | Isabelle | Alex Métayer | |
| 1988 | Rosette vole les voleurs | Rosette's friend | Rosette (4) | Short |
| 1988 | Les lutteurs immobiles | Judith | André Farwagi | TV movie |
| 1989 | Papa est parti, maman aussi | The mother | Christine Lipinska (2) | |
| 1990 | Les bottes de sept lieues | | Hervé Baslé | TV movie |
| 1991 | Le sommeil d'Adrien | | Caroline Champetier | Short |
| 1991 | Paparoff | | Didier Albert | TV series (1 episode) |
| 1992 | A Tale of Winter | Dora | Éric Rohmer (6) | |
| 1992 | Le cahier volé | Lucie | Christine Lipinska (3) | |
| 1993 | Couples et amants | Juliette | John Lvoff | |
| 1995 | Muriel fait le désespoir de ses parents | Muriel's Mum | Philippe Faucon | |
| 1995 | Sept en attente | | Françoise Etchegaray | |
| 1995 | La règle du silence | Co-director | Marie & Marc Rivière | TV movie |
| 1996 | Les jumeaux | Mother | Catherine Klein | Short |
| 1998 | Autumn Tale | Isabelle | Éric Rohmer (7) | |
| 1999 | Venus Beauty Institute | The client with boots | Tonie Marshall | |
| 2000 | Girls Can't Swim | Anne-Marie | Anne-Sophie Birot | |
| 2000 | Marie-Line | Louise | Mehdi Charef | |
| 2000 | Samia | The counselor | Philippe Faucon (2) | |
| 2001 | The Lady and the Duke | Madame Laurent | Éric Rohmer (8) | |
| 2001 | Le temps qu'il fait | | Nicolas Leclère | Short |
| 2001 | L'interpellation | Hélène Brunel | Marco Pauly | TV movie |
| 2003 | Zéro défaut | Simone | Pierre Schoeller | |
| 2003 | Clandestino | The driver | Paule Muxel | |
| 2003 | Anna, 3 kilos 2 | | Laurette Polmanss | Short |
| 2003 | Un autre homme | | Catherine Klein (2) | Short |
| 2005 | Time to Leave | The mother | François Ozon | |
| 2005 | Love Is in the Air | Charlotte's mother | Rémi Bezançon | |
| 2005 | Le canapé rouge | The woman | Éric Rohmer (9) | Short |
| 2007 | Actrices | The costume designer | Valeria Bruni Tedeschi | |
| 2007 | Romance of Astree and Celadon | Céladon's mother | Éric Rohmer (10) | |
| 2007 | Femme femme | Annie | Marina Deak | Short |
| 2009 | The Refuge | The woman on the beach | François Ozon (2) | |
| 2009 | Adresse inconnue | Adèle Fontaine | Alain Wermus | TV series (1 episode) |
| 2010 | Memory Lane | Aude | Mikhaël Hers | |
| 2011 | La noyée | Elise | Mathieu Hippeau | Short |
| 2012 | El Turrrf | Suzanne | Louis-Ronan Choisy | Short |
| 2012 | Sous la neige | Mother | Aurélien Héraud | Short |
| 2012 | Lupa | | Clémentine Poidatz | Short |
| 2013 | Bright Days Ahead | Jocelyne | Marion Vernoux | |
| 2013 | A Castle in Italy | Nathan's mother | Valeria Bruni Tedeschi (2) | |
| 2013 | Où je mets ma pudeur | The teacher | Sébastien Bailly | Short |
| 2013 | La peur | The teacher | Grégoire Pontécaille | Short |
| 2014 | The Missionaries | Martine | Tonie Marshall (2) | |
| 2014 | Madeleine et les deux Apaches | Madeleine | Christelle Lheureux | Short |
| 2014 | Petit lapin | Eva's mother | Hubert Viel | Short |
| 2015 | Courted | Marie-Laure Racine | Christian Vincent | |
| 2015 | This Summer Feeling | Adélaïde | Mikhaël Hers (2) | |
| 2015 | Deux femmes au cinéma | | Mathieu Hippeau (2) | Short |
| 2016 | Down by Love | Anna's mother | Pierre Godeau | |

## Theater

| Year | Title | Author | Director |
| 1979 | Das Käthchen von Heilbronn | Heinrich von Kleist | Éric Rohmer |
| 2004 | La Cour | Monique Jouvancy | Bruno Boussagol |
| 2009 | Elisa's Skin | Carole Fréchette | Carole Anderson |
| 2014 | Balakat | Delphine Hecquet | Delphine Hecquet |

## Author

| Year | Book | Publishing | Notes |
| 1988 | Un amour aux assises | Bernard Barrault | Novel |