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

At Work

The Green Ray

Down by Love

The Aviator's Wife

The Assembly Line

Sex, Love & Therapy

A Tale of Winter

My Donkey, My Lover & I

All Movies (67)

• The Diary of a Chambermaid2026 · as Madame Anne
• Les Plus beaux gratte-ciel de Paris2026
• Shreklife2026 · as Nadège
• At Work2026 · as Paul's Mother
• Queen Mom2025 · as Responsable Maintenance
• Bonus Malus2024
• Température ambiante2024
• Just the Two of Us2023 · as Blanche’s Mother
• The Assembly Line2023 · as Robert’s mum
• Marinaleda2023
• Eva voudrait2020 · as Emmanuelle
• My Donkey, My Lover & I2020 · as Claire
• Dark Flow2020
• Féminin plurielles2018 · as Professor
• Down by Love2016 · as Mère Anna
• Courted2015 · as Marie-Laure Racine
• This Summer Feeling2015 · as Adélaïde
• Deux rivages2015
• Sex, Love & Therapy2014 · as Martine
• Madeleine and the Two Apaches2014 · as Madeleine
• El Turrrf2013 · as Suzanne
• A Castle in Italy2013 · as Nathan's Mother
• Bright Days Ahead2013 · as Jocelyne
• My Sense of Modesty2013
• Under the Snow2012
• Washed Ashore2011
• Memory Lane2010 · as Aude
• In the Company of Éric Rohmer2010 · as Self
• Hideaway (Le refuge)2009 · as La femme sur la plage
• Actresses2007 · as The costume designer
• Le Canapé rouge2005
• Love Is in the Air2005 · as La mère de Charlotte
• Time to Leave2005 · as Mère
• Les Contes secrets ou les Rohmériens2005 · as Self
• Clandestino2003 · as La conductrice
• Zéro défaut2003 · as Simone
• The Lady and the Duke2001 · as Madame Laurent
• Marie-Line2000 · as Louise
• Samia2000 · as La conseillère d'orientation
• Girls Can't Swim2000 · as Anne-Marie
• Venus Beauty Institute1999 · as La cliente aux bottines fourées
• A Tale of Autumn1998 · as Isabelle
• Muriel's Parents Are Desperate1995 · as La mere
• The Stolen Diary1993 · as Lucie
• A Tale of Winter1992 · as Dora
• Adrien's Sleep1991
• Les lutteurs immobiles1988 · as Judith
• Le bonheur se porte large1988 · as Isabelle
• Rosette vole les voleurs1988 · as Rosette's friend
• La nuit du coucou1987 · as Françoise Bonnot
• Four Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle1987 · as L'arnaqueuse - Swindler
• Rosette cherche une chambre1987 · as Florence
• The Green Ray1986 · as Delphine
• Folie suisse1985 · as Anna Daubigny
• Rosette vend des roses1985 · as Rosette's friend
• Raison perdue1984 · as Paula
• The Adventures of Rosette1983
• Rosette sort le soir1983 · as Marie
• Cinématon XVIII1982 · as N°172 / N°173
• Chassé-croisé1982
• The Aviator's Wife1981 · as Anne
• Catherine de Heilbronn1980 · as Brigitte
• Heart to Heart1979 · as Une élève du cours de dactylo (uncredited)
• Cinématon1978 · as N°172 / N°173
• Médiumnité1978
• Perceval1978 · as Pucelle / Dame / Fille de Garin
• Life the Way It Is1978 · as Florence