Marie Rivière

Personal Info

Birthday

December 22, 1956

(68 years old)

Place of Birth

Montreuil, Seine [now Seine-Saint-Denis], France

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.

Known For

Down by Love

Sex, Love & Therapy

Time to Leave

The Green Ray

Bright Days Ahead

My Donkey, My Lover & I

Courted

Just the Two of Us

Filmography

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