Emmanuelle Riva

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Female

Birthday

1927-02-24 (90 years old)

Deathday

2017-01-27

Place of Birth

Cheniménil, Vosges, France

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.

Acting

1993

2008

The Great Alibi

as Geneviève Herbin

1967

Risky Business

as Suzanne Doucet

1997

XXL

as Sonia Stern

1999

2009

A Man and His Dog

as Femme église

1958

The Possessors

as la secrétaire de Noël

1960

1960

Kapo

as Terese

1966

2021

Trintignant by Trintignant

as Self (archive footage)

1962

Therese

as Thérèse Desqueyroux

2011

Skylab

as Mrs. Prévost

2006

My Son

as Grandmother / La grand-mère

2012

Amour

as Anne

2001

C'est la vie

as Dominique

1991

For Sasha

as Mrs. Malka

1965

Thomas the Impostor

as la princesse de Bormes

1968

La forêt noire

as Maria Richter

1984

1993

A Shadow of a Doubt

as Grandmother

1997

Capitaine au long cours

as Clémentine / Calypso

1990

The Passion of Bernadette

as Mother Marie-Thérèse Vauzou

2004

1963

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La Fin de la nuit

as Thérèse Desqueyroux

1972

Le Cygne

as Dame Gritie

2021

Marx Can Wait

as Mother (archive footage) (uncredited)

1987

Funny Boy

as Micky's Mother

1962

Climates of Love

as Isabelle

1971

Proust, l'art et la douleur

as Narrator (voice)

1976

The Devil in the Heart

as Mrs. Bouvier, the mother

1983

A Man of My Measure

as Lisa Leibovitch

1963

Caterina

as Caterina

1970

The Modification

as Henriette

1964

The Big Hit

as Clémence Grandval

1966

L’Or et le plomb

as World's woman

1971

Man of Desire

as Valentine

2004

Green Paradise

as La mère de Lucas

2017

Lost in Paris

as Martha

1974

Ariane

as Pasiphae

1960

The Eighth Day

as Françoise

1979

Les Jeunes Filles

as Andrée Hacquebaut

1992

Far from Brazil

as Juliette

1967

Bitter Fruit

as Soledad

2012

Wide-Awake

as The Superwoman

1960

Recourse in Grace

as Germaine Tourier

1972

Gates of Fire

as The Baroness

1965

I Kill, You Kill

as Lucia Rossi Perozzi (segment "La donna che viveva sola")

1995

Éclats de famille

as Maguerite

2021

1982

2001

Médée

as Le choeur

1975

La mort de l'utopie

as La tragédienne

2013

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