Career Highlights: Blue, Hiroshima Mon Amour, Thérèse Desqueyroux
First Major Screen Credit: Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959)
Biography
French actress Emmanuelle Riva launched her career on the Paris stage. Before that, she had worked as a seamstress. Riva made an auspicious film debut in Alain Resnais' Hiroshima mon Amour (1959). She subsequently staffed numerous French and Italian films. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide