Emmanuelle Riva was a French actress, best known for her roles in the films Hiroshima mon amour and Amour.
13 Facts About Emmanuelle Riva
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In 1957, Emmanuelle Riva made her onscreen acting debut in the TV series Enigmes de l'histoire.
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Emmanuelle Riva was cast as one of the leads in Hiroshima mon amour, a film directed by Alain Resnais and written by Marguerite Duras, in which she played a French actress having an affair with a Japanese architect in Hiroshima.
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Emmanuelle Riva's performance was nominated for a BAFTA Award for Best Foreign Actress in 1960.
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Emmanuelle Riva next appeared in Gillo Pontecorvo's Kapo, Jean-Pierre Melville's Leon Morin, Priest and Georges Franju's Therese Desqueyroux, for which she won the Volpi Cup for Best Actress at the 23rd Venice International Film Festival.
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Emmanuelle Riva starred in Michael Haneke's film Amour with Jean-Louis Trintignant, playing an elderly music teacher being cared for by her husband after a series of debilitating strokes.
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Emmanuelle Riva won the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role in 2013 for her performance, and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress.
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Emmanuelle Riva traveled to the 85th Academy Awards ceremony, which was held on her 86th birthday, but Jennifer Lawrence won for Silver Linings Playbook instead.
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At 85, when she was nominated, Emmanuelle Riva was the oldest ever Best Actress nominee and the second-oldest acting nominee after Gloria Stuart, who was 87 when she was nominated for Titanic.
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Emmanuelle Riva returned to the Paris stage in February 2014, co-starring with Anne Consigny in the Marguerite Duras play Savannah Bay at the Theatre de l'Atelier.
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Emmanuelle Riva led a private life, never married and did not have children.
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Emmanuelle Riva owned a fourth-floor walk-up apartment in the Latin Quarter of Paris, and lived there for more than half a century.
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Emmanuelle Riva died from cancer on 27 January 2017 in Paris, four weeks before her 90th birthday.