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Emmanuelle Riva

Emmanuelle Riva

Acting1927Cheniménil, Vosges, France

Biography

Emmanuelle Riva (February 24, 1927 – January 27, 2017) was a French actress, best known for her roles in the films Hiroshima mon amour and Amour.

In 2013, Riva won the BAFTA Award and the César Award for her lead role in Michael Haneke's Amour as Anne Laurent, and was nominated for the Academy Award for the same role.[2][3] She had previously been nominated for a BAFTA Award in 1960 for Hiroshima mon amour, and had won Best Actress at the Venice Film Festival in 1962 for Thérèse Desqueyroux.

Acting History

2021
Trintignant by Trintignant
as Self (archive footage)
Marx Can Wait
as Mother (archive footage) (uncredited)
2017
Lost in Paris
as Martha
2012
Wide-Awake
as The Superwoman
Amour
as Anne
2011
Skylab
as Mrs. Prévost
2009
A Man and His Dog
as Femme église
2008
The Great Alibi
as Geneviève Herbin
2006
My Son
as Grandmother / La grand-mère
2004
Green Paradise
as La mère de Lucas
2001
C'est la vie
as Dominique
Médée
as Le choeur
1999
1997
XXL
as Sonia Stern
Capitaine au long cours
as Clémentine / Calypso
1994
A che punto è la notte
TVas Professoressa Chaldiny
1993
1992
Far from Brazil
as Juliette
1991
For Sasha
as Mrs. Malka
1990
The Passion of Bernadette
as Mother Marie-Thérèse Vauzou
1987
Funny Boy
as Micky's Mother
1984
Un delitto
as Madame Louise
1983
A Man of My Measure
as Lisa Leibovitch
1979
Les Jeunes Filles
as Andrée Hacquebaut
1976
The Devil in the Heart
as Mrs. Bouvier, the mother
1975
1974
Ariane
as Pasiphae
1972
Gates of Fire
as The Baroness
Le Cygne
as Dame Gritie
1971
Man of Desire
as Valentine
Proust, l'art et la douleur
as Narrator (voice)
Samedi soir
TVas Self
1970
The Modification
as Henriette
1968
La forêt noire
as Maria Richter
1967
Risky Business
as Suzanne Doucet
Bitter Fruit
as Soledad
1966
L’Or et le plomb
as World's woman
La Fin de la nuit
as Thérèse Desqueyroux
1965
Thomas the Impostor
as la princesse de Bormes
I Kill, You Kill
as Lucia Rossi Perozzi (segment "La donna che viveva sola")
1964
The Big Hit
as Clémence Grandval
1963
Caterina
as Caterina
1962
Therese
as Thérèse Desqueyroux
Climates of Love
as Isabelle
1960
Kapo
as Terese
Recourse in Grace
as Germaine Tourier
The Eighth Day
as Françoise
1959
1958
The Possessors
as la secrétaire de Noël

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Personal Info

Known For
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
2/24/1927
Day of Death
1/27/2017
Place of Birth
Cheniménil, Vosges, France