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Emmanuelle Riva

Acting Born Feb 24, 1927 Cheniménil, Vosges, France 24 credits

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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Known for

Film

Three Colors: Blue

as Mother
Film

Amour

as Anne
Film

Hiroshima Mon Amour

as Elle

BOSS

as Terese

Full filmography

  • Discorama (1959) as Self
  • Cinépanorama (1956) as Self
  • Samedi soir (1971) as Self
  • Kulturzeit (1995) as self
  • Three Colors: Blue (1993) as Mother
  • Amour (2012) as Anne
  • Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959) as Elle
  • For Sasha (1991) as Mrs. Malka
  • Skylab (2011) as Mrs. Prévost
  • Léon Morin, Priest (1961) as Barny
  • My Son (2006) as Grandmother / La grand-mère
  • Venus Beauty Institute (1999) as Tante Lyda
  • Safari 5000 (1969)
  • XXL (1997) as Sonia Stern
  • Kapo (1960) as Terese
  • A che punto è la notte (1994) as Professoressa Chaldiny
  • Lost in Paris (2017) as Martha
  • The Great Alibi (2008) as Geneviève Herbin
  • Wide-Awake (2012) as The Superwoman
  • Trintignant by Trintignant (2021) as Self (archive footage)
  • The Possessors (1958) as la secrétaire de Noël
  • The Eyes, the Mouth (1982) as Madre
  • Adua and Her Friends (1960) as Marilina
  • Les Énigmes de l'Histoire (1956)