Emmanuelle Riva

• Name — Emmanuelle Riva • Birth Name — Paulette Germaine Riva • Born — 24 February 1927 • Birthplace — Cheniménil, France • Died — 27 January 2017 • Place of death — Paris, France • Resting Place — Cimetière de Charonne, Paris • Occupation — * Actress • poet • photographer • artist • chanteuse • Years Active — 1956–2017

Riva was born Paulette Germaine Riva on 24 February 1927 in Cheniménil, France, the daughter of Jeanne Fernande (née Nourdin), a seamstress, and René Alfred Riva, a sign painter. Growing up in Remiremont, Riva showed an early passion for acting, performing in plays at her local theatre, but worked for several years as a seamstress. After seeing an advertisement on a local newspaper, Riva applied to an acting school in Paris. At 26, she moved to Paris to pursue acting despite her family's objections. In 1954, she performed her first role on stage in a Paris production of George Bernard Shaw's Arms and the Man. In 1957, Riva made her onscreen acting debut in the TV series Énigmes de l'histoire.

• Illustration — Emmanuelle Riva at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival

Riva had an extensive theatre career in Paris. In 2001, she performed in Medea at the Festival d'Avignon. She appeared occasionally on French television. Riva returned to the Paris stage in February 2014, co-starring with Anne Consigny in the Marguerite Duras play Savannah Bay at the Théâtre de l'Atelier. While filming Hiroshima mon amour, Riva photographed Hiroshima; a half-century later these photographs were exhibited at the Nikon Salon and issued in book form in France and Japan. Riva was a published poet. • Illustration — Riva's final resting place in Paris

Riva led a private life, never married and did not have children. She had a partner, who died in 1999. Riva owned a fourth-floor walk-up apartment in the Latin Quarter of Paris, and lived there for more than half a century.

Riva died from cancer on 27 January 2017 in Paris, four weeks before her 90th birthday. A memorial service was held on 4 February 2017 at Saint-Germain de Charonne church in the 20th arrondissement of Paris; she was then buried in Charonne cemetery.

• Year — Title — Director — Notes • 1959 — Hiroshima mon amour — Alain Resnais — Nominated—BAFTA Award for Best Foreign Actress • 1959 — Kapò — Gillo Pontecorvo • 1960 — The Eighth Day — Marcel Hanoun • Adua and Friends — Antonio Pietrangeli • Recourse in Grace — Laslo Benedek • 1961 — Léon Morin, Priest — Jean-Pierre Melville • 1962 — Thérèse Desqueyroux — Georges Franju — Volpi Cup for Best Actress • Climats — Stellio Lorenzi • 1963 — The Hours of Love — Luciano Salce • Le gros coup — Jean Valère • 1965 — Thomas the Impostor — Georges Franju • 1967 — Les risques du métier — André Cayatte • 1972 — The Gates of Fire — Claude Bernard-Aubert • 1973 — I Will Walk Like a Crazy Horse — Fernando Arrabal • 1982 — The Eyes, the Mouth — Marco Bellocchio • 1983 — Liberté, la nuit — Philippe Garrel • 1993 — Three Colors: Blue — Krzysztof Kieślowski • 1999 — Venus Beauty Institute — Tonie Marshall • 2001 — Médée — Don Kent • 2009 — A Man and His Dog — Francis Huster • 2011 — Le Skylab — Julie Delpy • 2012 — Amour — Michael Haneke — BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role Boston Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actress César Award for Best Actress Dublin Film Critics' Circle Award for Best Actress European Film Award for Best Actress International Cinephile Society Award for Best Actress London Film Critics' Circle Award for Actress of the Year Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress (tied with Jennifer Lawrence for Silver Linings Playbook) Lumière Award for Best Actress National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actress New York Film Critics Online Award for Best Actress Premio Cinema Ludus for Best European Actress (tied with Marion Cotillard for Rust and Bone) San Francisco Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress Nominated—Academy Award for Best Actress Nominated—AACTA International Award for Best Actress Nominated—Alliance of Women Film Journalists Award for Best Actress Nominated—Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress Nominated—Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress Nominated—Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress Nominated—Dorian Award for Best Actress Nominated—Houston Film Critics Society for Best Actress Nominated—Irish Film & Television Awards – Best International Actress Nominated—Online Film Critics Society Award for Best Actress Nominated—New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress Nominated—Satellite Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama Nominated—Toronto Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress Nominated—Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress Días de Cine Awards for Best Actress • 2016 — Marie and the Misfits — Sébastien Betbeder • 2016 — Lost in Paris — Dominique Abel and Fiona Gordon • 2017 — La Sainte Famille — Marion Sarraut

Emmanuelle Riva was recorded at birth as Paulette Germaine Riva. She also worked under the name Emmanuelle Riva. Her recorded language was French.

Emmanuelle Riva worked in poetry, theatre and film. She belonged to Comité des intellectuels pour l'Europe des libertés.