Marie Rivière ( born 22 December 1956, Montreuil, Seine-Saint-Denis) , is a French actress. She is one of the preferred actresses of the director Éric Rohmer.

From a working class background, Marie Rivière grew up on a housing estate/project in Montreuil, before working as a schoolteacher, then as a shop assistant. At 21, having seen L'Amour l'après-midi she sent a letter and photo to Éric Rohmer. He saw her in his office at 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 Rohmer's The Aviator's 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 d'automne, alongside another Rohmer muse, Béatrice Romand.

She co-directed her first film in 1993, with Marc Rivière, La Règle du Silence.

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• Marie Rivière at the Internet Movie Database