Marie Rivière
Known for: Acting
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.
Filmography
Film
The Green Ray
Delphine
1986
Film
At Work
Paul's Mother
2026
Film
Just the Two of Us
Blanche’s Mother
2023
Film
Down by Love
Mère Anna
2016
Film
Sex, Love & Therapy
Martine
2014
Film
Médiumnité
1978
Film
Time to Leave
Mère
2005
Film
An Autumn Tale
Isabelle
1998
Film
Les lutteurs immobiles
Judith
1988
Film
The Diary of a Chambermaid
Madame Anne
2026
Film
My Donkey, My Lover & I
Claire
2020
Film
A Tale of Winter
Dora
1992
Film
The Aviator's Wife
Anne
1981
Film
Bright Days Ahead
Jocelyne
2013
Film
Four Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle
L'arnaqueuse - Swindler
1987
Film
Venus Beauty Institute
La cliente aux bottines fourées
1999
Film
Perceval
Pucelle / Dame / Fille de Garin
1978
Film
Courted
Marie-Laure Racine
2015
Film
This Summer Feeling
Adélaïde
2015
Film
Le Canapé rouge
2005
Film
Dark Flow
2020
Folie suisse
Anna Daubigny
1985
Film
The Lady and the Duke
Madame Laurent
2001
Film
Cinématon
N°172 / N°173
1978
Film
Love Is in the Air
La mère de Charlotte
2005
Film
Actresses
The costume designer
2007
Film
A Castle in Italy
Nathan's Mother
2013
Film
Féminin plurielles
Professor
2018
Film
Hideaway (Le refuge)
La femme sur la plage
2009
Film
Les Plus beaux gratte-ciel de Paris
2026
Film
Bonus Malus
2024
Film
El Turrrf
Suzanne
2013
Film
Heart to Heart
Une élève du cours de dactylo (uncredited)
1979
Film
Life the Way It Is
Florence
1978
Film
Chassé-croisé
1982
Film
Queen Mom
Responsable Maintenance
2025
Film
The Assembly Line
Robert’s mum
2023
Film
The Stolen Diary
Lucie
1993
Film
Girls Can't Swim
Anne-Marie
2000
Film
Marinaleda
2023
Film
The Adventures of Rosette
1983
La nuit du coucou
Françoise Bonnot
1987
Rosette sort le soir
Marie
1983
Film
Température ambiante
2024
Rosette cherche une chambre
Florence
1987
Rosette vole les voleurs
Rosette's friend
1988
Rosette vend des roses
Rosette's friend
1985
Film
Raison perdue
Paula
1984
Film
Catherine de Heilbronn
Brigitte
1980
Film
Under the Snow
2012
Film
Madeleine and the Two Apaches
Madeleine
2014
Film
Memory Lane
Aude
2010
Clandestino
La conductrice
2003
Deux rivages
2015
Film
My Sense of Modesty
2013
Film
Muriel's Parents Are Desperate
La mere
1995
Cinématon XVIII
N°172 / N°173
1982
Film
Marie-Line
Louise
2000
Film
Zéro défaut
Simone
2003
In the Company of Éric Rohmer
Self
2010
Film
Eva voudrait
Emmanuelle
2020
Film
Shreklife
Nadège
2026
Film
Le bonheur se porte large
Isabelle
1988
Film
Samia
La conseillère d'orientation
2000
Film
Washed Ashore
2011
Film
Adrien's Sleep
1991
Film
Les Contes secrets ou les Rohmériens
Self
2005