Emmanuelle Riva

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Known For

Acting

Born

1927-02-24

Place of Birth

Cheniménil, Vosges, France
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Emmanuelle Riva

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.

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Acting History

2021
Trintignant by Trintignant as Self (archive footage)
2021
Marx Can Wait as Mother (archive footage) (uncredited)
2021
Alma
2017
Lost in Paris as Martha
2013
Making of Amour as Self
2013
Michael H. – Profession: Director as Self
2013
A Greek Type of Problem as Granny
2012
Wide-Awake as The Superwoman
2012
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
Eros Therapy as Emma
2004
Green Paradise as La mère de Lucas
2001
C'est la vie as Dominique
2001
Médée as Le choeur
1999
Venus Beauty Institute as Tante Lyda
1997
XXL as Sonia Stern
1997
Capitaine au long cours as Clémentine / Calypso
1995
Arthur Rimbaud, l'homme aux semelles de vent as Vitalie Rimbaud
1995
Kulturzeit as self
1995
Éclats de famille as Maguerite
1995
God, My Mother's Lover and the Butcher's Son
1994
A che punto è la notte as Professoressa Chaldiny
1993
A Shadow of a Doubt as Grandmother
1993
Three Colors: Blue as Mother
1992
Far from Brazil as Juliette
1991
For Sasha as Mrs. Malka
1990
The Passion of Bernadette as Mother Marie-Thérèse Vauzou
1988
The Tribulations of Balthazar Kober as Mother
1987
Funny Boy as Micky's Mother
1985
Resist or the Captives of Aigues-Mortes
1984
Liberty at Night as Mouche
1984
Un delitto as Madame Louise
1983
A Man of My Measure as Lisa Leibovitch
1982
The Eyes, the Mouth as Madre
1982
Is There a Frenchman in the House? as Adélaïde Tumelat
1981
The Games of Countess Dolingen as Une invitée
1979
Les Jeunes Filles as Andrée Hacquebaut
1976
The Devil in the Heart as Mrs. Bouvier, the mother
1975
La mort de l'utopie as La tragédienne
1975
Au long de rivière Fango as Mathilde
1974
Ariane as Pasiphae
1973
I Will Walk Like a Crazy Horse as Madame Rey
1972
Le Cygne as Dame Gritie
1972
Gates of Fire as The Baroness
1971
Proust, l'art et la douleur as Narrator (voice)
1971
Man of Desire as Valentine
1971
Samedi soir as Self
1970
The Modification as Henriette
1969
Safari 5000
1968
La forêt noire as Maria Richter
1967
Risky Business as Suzanne Doucet
1967
Disorder Is 20 Years Old as Self
1967
Bitter Fruit as Soledad
1966
Le Coup de grâce as Sophie
1966
L’Or et le plomb as World's woman
1965
Thomas the Impostor as la princesse de Bormes
1965
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
1963
The Hours of Love as Maretta
1962
Therese as Thérèse Desqueyroux
1962
Climates of Love as Isabelle
1961
Léon Morin, Priest as Barny
1960
Kapo as Terese
1960
Adua and Her Friends as Marilina
1960
Recourse in Grace as Germaine Tourier
1960
The Eighth Day as Françoise
1959
Hiroshima Mon Amour as Elle
1959
Discorama as Self
1958
The Possessors as la secrétaire de Noël
1956
Énigmes de l'histoire
1956
Cinépanorama as Self
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La Fin de la nuit as Thérèse Desqueyroux