Portrait of Emmanuelle Riva

Emmanuelle Riva

Acting

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.

Born: February 24, 1927

Place of Birth: Cheniménil, Vosges, France

Filmography

2021
Trintignant by Trintignant

as Self (archive footage)

2021
Marx Can Wait

as Mother (archive footage) (uncredited)

2021
2017
Lost in Paris

as Martha

2013
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
2004
Green Paradise

as La mère de Lucas

2001
C'est la vie

as Dominique

2001
Médée

as Le choeur

1999
1997
XXL

as Sonia Stern

1997
Capitaine au long cours

as Clémentine / Calypso

1995
Kulturzeit

as self

1995
Éclats de famille

as Maguerite

1994
A che punto è la notte

as Professoressa Chaldiny

1993
A Shadow of a Doubt

as Grandmother

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
1983
A Man of My Measure

as Lisa Leibovitch

1982
1976
The Devil in the Heart

as Mrs. Bouvier, the mother

1975
La mort de l'utopie

as La tragédienne

1974
Ariane

as Pasiphae

1972
Gates of Fire

as The Baroness

1971
Proust, l'art et la douleur

as Narrator (voice)

1971
Man of Desire

as Valentine

1970
The Modification

as Henriette

1968
La forêt noire

as Maria Richter

1967
Risky Business

as Suzanne Doucet

1967
Bitter Fruit

as Soledad

1966
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
1962
Therese

as Thérèse Desqueyroux

1962
Climates of Love

as Isabelle

1960
Kapo

as Terese

1960
1960
Recourse in Grace

as Germaine Tourier

1960
The Eighth Day

as Françoise

1959
Discorama

as Self

1958
The Possessors

as la secrétaire de Noël

1956