Emmanuelle Riva (real name Paulette Jarmen Riva) is a French theater, film and television actress. Winner of the Venice Film Festival, Cesar, European Film Academy, British Academy and Oscar nominee.
Riva is one of the oldest actresses ever to be nominated for an Oscar. In 2012, when the picture "Love" with her participation was released, she was 85 years old. Only the performer of the role of Rose in old age in the film "Titanic" - Gloria Stewart was 2 years older than her. Interestingly, in the same year, nine-year-old Kuavendjani Wallace became an Oscar contender.
Riva performed on the theater stage in France for many years. In 2001, she took part in a production of Medea, shown at the annual French Avignon Arts Festival.
In the creative biography of the performer, there are more than 80 roles in film and television. She also took part in Oscars, popular documentary series and programs: Kinopanorama, Cesar Night, Three Cinemas, Great Writers.
Biography facts
Paulette Jarmen was born in France in the winter of 1927. His father was an artist, his mother was a seamstress.
The girl spent her childhood in Remiremon, where her passion for creativity began. Already in her school years, she showed great interest in theater and art. The girl dreamed that someday she would definitely become an actress.
After receiving her primary education, the girl helped her mother in sewing for some time. One day she saw an ad for an acting course in Paris and decided to apply for admission.
When she turned 26, Riva went to Paris to devote herself entirely to her acting career, despite the fact that her family did not support her, and her mother was categorically against her departure. The girl entered the Academy of Dramatic Arts (CNSAD).
A year later, the girl made her debut on the theater stage in France in B. Shaw's play "Arms and Man". Then she changed her name and took herself the creative pseudonym Emmanuel.
Film career
For the first time, the performer appeared on the screen in 1958, but her role was so insignificant that even in the credits her name was not indicated.
The next work was the tape "Hiroshima mon amour" ("Hiroshima, my love"), which brought the artist widespread fame, fame and several cinematic awards and nominations.
The film takes place after the war in the Japanese city of Hiroshima. A French film actress and a Japanese architect meet there. A man and a woman fall in love with each other, but each of them is pressed by the past, with which they cannot part.
The tape was shown at the Cannes Film Festival, received high marks from film critics and was nominated for the main prize "Palme d'Or". In 1961, the film won the special BAFTA United Nations Prize. Riva was also nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Actress. The script for the film was nominated for an Oscar, but the award went to the film Painting.
In the 1960s, Riva starred in projects: "The Eighth Day", "Capo", "Teresa Deisqueiro", "Love Time", "Big Hit", "Tom's Pretender", "A Shot of Mercy", "End of the Night", “Tonight in the Theater”, “This is the Order”, “Bitter Fruits - Soledad”, “Black Forest”, “Five Thousand Kilometers to Glory”.
Since 1970, Riva has appeared on the screen in the films: "Fire exit", "I will go like a mad horse", "Ariana", "Down the river Fango", "Lady of the Dawn", "Beloved Leopold", "The Devil and the Heart", "Madame Ex", "Young Girls", "House Rules", "Games of Countess Dolinger de Graz", "Piano of Dreams", "Heiress", "Crime", "Funny Boy", "Caterina Medici", "Passion for Bernadette "," Big beauty "," For Sasha "," Three colors: Blue "," God, my mother's lover and the butcher's son "," Venus beauty salon "," Big alibi "," Love "," Marie and the losers "," Miracles in Paris ".
In 2012, the actress appeared on the screen as an old, dying teacher Ann in the drama “Love” directed by M. Haneke. The famous Jean-Louis Tretignan became her partner on the set.
The picture tells about the spouses Georges and Anna, who have lived together for many years. They are already in their eighties, but husband and wife are trying to take care of each other. When Anna falls ill and gradually begins to fade away, Georges hires a saddle, but soon realizes that she cannot give his wife the warmth with which they have warmed each other all their lives. The husband decides to leave his job and devote all the time to his beloved wife. Already an adult daughter is trying to persuade her father to send her mother to a nursing home. But he is categorically opposed to the dying Anna spending her last days away from him and from home.
The film has received many awards and nominations, including: Oscar, Cesar, Golden Globe, European Film Academy, Cannes Film Festival, BAFTA, Goya.
The last time on the screen, fans of Emmanuelle were able to see her in the lyrical melodrama "Miracles in Paris". Together with Riva, the wonderful French actor Pierre Richard starred in the film. The tape was released in French cinemas 2 months after the death of the actress.
The action in the film takes place in Paris, where the main character comes to rest. There she unexpectedly meets the man whom she has loved all her life.
Personal life
The actress was never married and had no children. She lived in Paris, where she had her own cozy apartment in the Latin Quarter.
Emmanuelle passed away in the winter of 2017 a few weeks before her birthday. In 2017, she was supposed to be 90 years old. The cause of death was cancer.
