ACTOR

Emmanuelle Riva

1927 - 2017

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Emmanuelle Riva (French pronunciation: [ɛmanɥɛl ʁiva]; 24 February 1927 – 27 January 2017) was a French actress, best known for her roles in the films Hiroshima mon amour (1959) and Amour (2012). Riva was nominated for a BAFTA Award for her role in Hiroshima mon amour, and won Best Actress at the Venice Film Festival for Thérèse Desqueyroux (1962). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Emmanuelle Riva has received more than 644,412 page views. Her biography is available in 47 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 44 in 2019). Emmanuelle Riva is the 434th most popular actor (down from 408th in 2019), the 857th most popular biography from France (down from 809th in 2019) and the 39th most popular French Actor.

Emmanuelle Riva is most famous for her role in the film "Hiroshima Mon Amour" (1959).

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  • 8.40

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  • 2.90

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Among ACTORS

Among actors, Emmanuelle Riva ranks 434 out of 13,578. Before her are Nebahat Çehre, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Brandon Lee, Heath Ledger, Cillian Murphy, and Bruno Cremer. After her are David McCallum, Mark Hamill, Françoise Dorléac, Gian Maria Volonté, Jane Seymour, and John Goodman.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1927, Emmanuelle Riva ranks 37. Before her are Juliette Gréco, John McCarthy, Rosalynn Carter, Raúl Alfonsín, Manfred Eigen, and Princess Joséphine Charlotte of Belgium. After her are Abdul Basit 'Abd us-Samad, Angelo Sodano, Robert Ludlum, Daniel Keyes, Hugo Pratt, and Don Shirley. Among people deceased in 2017, Emmanuelle Riva ranks 37. Before her are Roman Herzog, Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov, Hiroto Muraoka, Derek Walcott, Tzvetan Todorov, and Louise Hay. After her are Lotfi A. Zadeh, Jean Rochefort, Adnan Khashoggi, Liu Xiaobo, Malcolm Young, and Powers Boothe.

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In France

Among people born in France, Emmanuelle Riva ranks 857 out of 6,770. Before her are Arnaut Daniel (1150), Pierre Janssen (1824), Bruno Cremer (1929), Alain-René Lesage (1668), Léon Gambetta (1838), and Dominique Strauss-Kahn (1949). After her are Georges Picquart (1854), Françoise Dorléac (1942), Pierre Puvis de Chavannes (1824), Alfred de Vigny (1797), Louis Desaix (1768), and Prince Philippe, Count of Paris (1838).

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Among ACTORS In France

Among actors born in France, Emmanuelle Riva ranks 39. Before her are Mylène Demongeot (1935), Jean-Pierre Cassel (1932), Vincent Cassel (1966), Bourvil (1917), Jean-Pierre Léaud (1944), and Bruno Cremer (1929). After her are Françoise Dorléac (1942), Jean Rochefort (1930), Claudine Auger (1941), Stéphane Audran (1932), Michael Lonsdale (1931), and Christian Clavier (1952).

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Television and Movie Roles

Hiroshima Mon Amour
Elle
The deep conversation between a Japanese architect and a French actress forms the basis of this celebrated French film, considered one of the vanguard productions of the French New Wave. Set in Hiroshima after the end of World War II, the couple -- lovers turned friends -- recount, over many hours, previous romances and life experiences. The two intertwine their stories about the past with pondering the devastation wrought by the atomic bomb dropped on the city.
Jun 10o 19597.725 / 10
Amour
Anne Laurent
Georges and Anne are in their eighties. They are cultivated, retired music teachers. Their daughter, who is also a musician, lives abroad with her family. One day, Anne has a stroke, and the couple's bond of love is severely tested.
Sep 20o 20127.769 / 10
Three Colors: Blue
Mother
The wife of a famous composer survives a car accident that kills her husband and daughter. Now alone, she shakes off her old identity and explores her newfound freedom but finds that she is unbreakably bound to other humans, including her husband’s mistress, whose existence she never suspected.
Sep 8o 19937.7 / 10