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Emmanuelle Riva, French icon who starred in Amour, dies aged 89

Star of Hiroshima mon amour and Thérèse Desqueyroux, who won late acclaim and an Oscar nomination for her role in Michael Haneke’s 2012 film Amour, has die

Catherine Shoard
Saturday 28 January 2017 10.57 GMT

Emmaunelle Riva, the French actor whose 60 year career came to a triumphant climax with her Oscar nomination for Michael Haneke’s Amour, has died. Riva, who had cancer, died on Friday night in Paris, but was working until last summer, when she made a film, Alma, in Iceland and performed at the Villa Medici in Rome.

Emmanuelle Riva

Amour star Emmanuelle Riva: cinematic icon in two different eras

Modern audiences know the formidable Riva as the stroke victim in the heartwrenching Amour, but she made her name in the French new wave with powerfully sexual performances

Peter Bradshaw
Saturday 28 January 2017 11.34 GMT

In her 80s, Emmanuelle Riva became an icon for world cinema all over again in the 21st century, playing the retired music teacher Anne in Michael Haneke’s Amour, a devastating study of old age. In a terrifying early scene, Anna appears to suffer a moment of catatonic paralysis, a kind of intensified transient ischemic attack: the chilling forerunner to a stroke.