Know For
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
1927-02-24 (90 years old)
Deathday
2017-01-27
Place of Birth
Cheniménil, Vosges, France
Also known As
Paulette Germaine Riva
Paulette Riva
Emmanuele Riva
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.
1993
as Mother
2008
as Geneviève Herbin
1967
as Suzanne Doucet
1959
as Elle
1997
as Sonia Stern
1999
as Tante Lyda
2009
as Femme église
1958
as la secrétaire de Noël
1960
as Marilina
1961
as Barny
1960
as Terese
1966
as Sophie
2021
as Self (archive footage)
1962
as Thérèse Desqueyroux
2011
as Mrs. Prévost
2006
as Grandmother / La grand-mère
2012
as Anne
2001
as Dominique
1991
as Mrs. Malka
1965
as la princesse de Bormes
1973
as Madame Rey
1968
as Maria Richter
1984
as Mouche
1993
as Grandmother
1997
as Clémentine / Calypso
2013
as Granny
1990
as Mother Marie-Thérèse Vauzou
1981
as Une invitée
1982
as Madre
2013
2004
as Emma
1963
as Maretta
-
as Thérèse Desqueyroux
1972
as Dame Gritie
1967
as Self
2021
as Mother (archive footage) (uncredited)
1987
as Micky's Mother
1962
as Isabelle
1971
as Narrator (voice)
1969
1976
as Mrs. Bouvier, the mother
1983
as Lisa Leibovitch
1963
as Caterina
1970
as Henriette
1964
as Clémence Grandval
1966
as World's woman
1971
as Valentine
2004
as La mère de Lucas
2017
as Martha
1974
as Pasiphae
1988
as Mother
1960
as Françoise
1979
as Andrée Hacquebaut
1975
as Mathilde
1992
as Juliette
1967
as Soledad
2012
as The Superwoman
1960
as Germaine Tourier
1972
as The Baroness
1965
as Lucia Rossi Perozzi (segment "La donna che viveva sola")
1995
as Maguerite
2021
1982
as Adélaïde Tumelat
2001
as Le choeur
1995
as Vitalie Rimbaud
1975
as La tragédienne
2013
as Self
1984
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