French actress
Emmanuelle Riva passed way Friday afternoon after a long battle with cancer.
The 89 year-old film and
stage star earned an Oscar nomination for Best Actress in 2013 for her role in
Amour, Michael Haneke's heavy drama about aging.
Born Paulette
Germaine Riva on February 24, 1927 in Cheniménil, France, Riva moved to Paris in
1953 at the age of 26 from her home in rural France to become an actress. Riva's
acting career started on the stage after having studied as a seamstress.
In 1959, after a short
string of small and uncredited roles in film and TV, the actress made a splash in
Alain Resnais' acclaimed romantic drama Hiroshima Mon Amour. The Oscar
nominated film gave Riva her first formal accolades ever, a Best Foreign
Actress nomination at the 1961 BATFA Awards.
While filming Hiroshima
Mon Amour on location, Riva photographed the city, and a half-century later,
the photographs were exhibited at the Nikon Salon in Tokyo, as well as printed
in book form in France and Japan. Riva was also a published poet.
Riva worked well into
2016 with the release of Paris Pieds Nus and Marie Et Les Naufragés. The
actress had recently wrapped her role in Kristín Jóhannesdóttir's Alma, which
is still being edited, and is the last film starring the French actress.
Paying tribute,
French President Francois Hollande said in an official statement that Riva "deeply
marked French cinema" and "created intense emotion in all the roles
she played."
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