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.
66 acting credits · 2 directing credits
Acting · 66
At Work
2026
The Green Ray
1986
A Tale of Winter
1992
A Tale of Autumn
1998
My Donkey, My Lover & I
2020
Down by Love
2016
Time to Leave
2005
Just the Two of Us
2023
Sex, Love & Therapy
2014
Actresses
2007
Four Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle
1987
Venus Beauty Institute
1999
Courted
2015
Bright Days Ahead
2013
Cinématon
1978
Love Is in the Air
2005
Les Contes secrets ou les Rohmériens
2005
The Adventures of Rosette
1983
This Summer Feeling
2015
Hideaway (Le refuge)
2009
The Lady and the Duke
2001
The Aviator's Wife
1981
A Castle in Italy
2013
Perceval
1978
Heart to Heart
1979
Life the Way It Is
1978
Shreklife
2026
Féminin plurielles
2018
The Stolen Diary
1993
The Diary of a Chambermaid
2026
Chassé-croisé
1982
El Turrrf
2013
Queen Mom
2025
Raison perdue
1984
The Assembly Line
2023
Deux rivages
2015
Memory Lane
2010
Girls Can't Swim
2000
Le Canapé rouge
2005
Rosette vend des roses
1985
Clandestino
2003
Marinaleda
2023
Marie-Line
2000
Folie suisse
1985
Zéro défaut
2003
Samia
2000
Catherine de Heilbronn
1980
Eva voudrait
2020
Washed Ashore
2011
Bonus Malus
2024
My Sense of Modesty
2013
Cinématon XVIII
1982
Adrien's Sleep
1991
Rosette cherche une chambre
1987
Température ambiante
2024
Les lutteurs immobiles
1988
Madeleine and the Two Apaches
2014
Le bonheur se porte large
1988
Dark Flow
2020
Under the Snow
2012
Muriel's Parents Are Desperate
1995
In the Company of Éric Rohmer
2010
Rosette sort le soir
1983
La nuit du coucou
1987
Rosette vole les voleurs
1988
Médiumnité
1978