Marie Rivière

Marie Rivière born 22 December 1956 is a French actress and filmmaker She is known for her collaborations with director Éric Rohmer From a workingclass background Marie Rivière grew up on a housing estateproject in Montreuil before working as a schoolteacher then as a shop assistant At 21 having seen LAmour laprèsmidi she sent a letter and photo to Éric Rohmer He saw her in his office at Les films du losange in the presence of Arielle Dombasle and Thierry Lhermitte and offered her a small role in Perceval le Gallois Two years later she appeared in Rohmers The Aviators Wife the first in the Comédies et Proverbes series The Green Ray in which she played the fragile dreamer Delphine was a critical and popular success and won the Golden Lion at Venice In 1998 she appeared again for Rohmer in Conte dautomne Autumn Tale alongside another Rohmer muse Béatrice Romand She codirected her first film in 1993 with Marc Rivière La Règle du Silence