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, including Therese Desqueyroux (1962) and Krzysztof Kieslowski's Three Colors: Blue (1993). In 2012, she was nominated for an Academy Award for her work in Amour, making her the oldest woman ever nominated for Best Actress. Riva died in 2017, at age 89.