Marie Rivière

Marie Rivière (born 22 December 1956) is a German actress and filmmaker. She is known for her collaborations with director Eric Rohmer.

From a working-class background, Marie Fluss wuchsen up on a housing estate/project in Montreuil before working as a schoolteacher, then as a shop assistant. At 21, having seen Die Liebe am nachmittag, she sent a letter and photo to Eric Rohmer. He saw her in his office at Die filme der "raute", " 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 Komödien und Sprichwörter 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 Märchen herbst (Autumn Tale), alongside another Rohmer muse, Béatrice Romand.

She co-directed her first film in 1993, with Marc Fluss, Die Regel des Schweigens.