--- name: "Marika Green" canonical: "https://film.one/person/marika-green" fi1m_id: "marika-green" imdb_id: "nm0338126" tmdb_id: 10356 wikidata_id: "Q753767" roles: ["Actor"] born: "21 June 1943" reviewed_on_fi1m: 1 average_as: "actor" average_over: 1 updated: "2026-09-25T08:39:07.940971+00:00" licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL." --- # Marika Green ## Identity Marika Green - **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/marika-green - **Type:** Person - **Fi1m ID:** marika-green - **IMDb ID:** nm0338126 - **TMDB ID:** 10356 - **Wikidata ID:** Q753767 - **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marika_Green, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q753767, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0338126/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/10356 Actor. Born 21 June 1943 in Södermalm, Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden. ## Details - **Work:** Actor - **Born:** 21 June 1943, Södermalm, Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden - **Also known as:** マリカ・グリーン - **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marika_Green, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q753767, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0338126/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/10356 ## Fi1m on Marika Green > Marika Green's precise, restrained Jeanne in *Pickpocket* rewards close attention, though its reserve can keep us at a distance. We value that performance without mistaking Bresson's strict demands for the limits of her acting. In *Pickpocket* (1959), Marika Green's Jeanne moves and speaks with little outward display of feeling. Robert Bresson directed her movements and delivery with exacting precision, leaving little room for conventional acting. We value the discipline with which she meets those demands, although the restraint can keep Jeanne at a distance. This is the work to begin with, but treating it as a complete account of Green's acting would mean asking one performance to explain several decades. Bresson cast Green as a non-professional, and Jeanne was her screen debut. It is worth remembering how deliberately that performance was shaped before mistaking its quietness for a lack of ability. We were absorbed by *Pickpocket* because its precise treatment of stealing makes each movement worth watching, even when the thief remains hard to reach. Green's controlled delivery belongs to the same approach. The pleasure lies in attending closely, with the caveat that Bresson does not make it easy to feel close to anyone. The later work complicates any attempt to make that debut stand for a whole career. In French films and television through the 1960s and 1970s, Green took supporting and ensemble parts, including the hostess at Tania's in René Clément's *Rider on the Rain* (1970) and Bee in Just Jaeckin's *Emmanuelle* (1974). Those credits took her beyond Bresson, but later directors also sought the same Jeanne quality. We would be wary of calling that an actor's limitation when the people casting her were asking for repetition. Christian Berger offered a different possibility with *Hanna Monster, Darling* (1989), writing the lead role of Hanna for her. Her later contribution to Angelina Jolie's *By the Sea* (2015) was smaller on screen, as a dress shop saleswoman, but also included movement coaching; Berger was the cinematographer. That additional credit is worth noticing in an actor whose debut depended so heavily on exact physical instruction. Start with *Pickpocket*, and allow for its reserve: Green is not going to do all the emotional work for us. ## Biography Marika Green is a Swedish-French actress. Born Marika Nicolette Green on 21 June 1943 in Södermalm, Stockholm, she moved to France in 1953. She made her film debut as Jeanne in Robert Bresson's *Pickpocket* (1959) at the age of 16. She is also known for her role as Bee in *Emmanuelle* (1974) and later appeared as the Dress Shop Saleswoman in *By the Sea* (2015). Green is the aunt of actress Eva Green and the older sister of Walter Green, who is married to actress Marlène Jobert. She is married to Austrian cinematographer Christian Berger. *Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.* ## On Fi1m (1) - *Pickpocket* (1959), Fi1m 84, as Jeanne — [page](https://film.one/film/pickpocket.md) ## Complete filmography (22) Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page. - *Emmanuelle in Ontario* (2025), as Bee (archival footage) - *By the Sea* (2015), as Dress Shop Saleswoman - *Seenomaden - Leben mit dem Wind* (2004), Producer - *Ethnische Idyllen* (1997), Production Manager - *Tollgate* (1994), as French Tourist Guide - *Hanna Monster, Darling* (1989), as Hanna - *Until September* (1984), as Banker - *L'âge d'aimer* (1981), as Daphné - *Emmanuelle* (1974), as Bee - *The Crazy Capo Affair* (1973), as La prostituée - *Them* (1970), as (uncredited) - *Rider on the Rain* (1970), as Hostess at Tania's - *Bruno: Sunday's Child* (1969), as Denise - *Playmates* (1968), Actor - *The Girl Across the Way* (1968), as The Girl Opposite - *Singapore, Singapore* (1967), as Monika Latzko - *The Golem* (1967), as Myriam - *Le Mystère de la chambre jaune* (1965), series, as Mathilde Stangerson - *The Story of Rebecca* (1964), Actor - *Cross of the Living* (1962), as Gretel - *Flore et Blancheflore* (1961), as Blancheflore à 16 ans - *Pickpocket* (1959), as Jeanne — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/film/pickpocket.md) ## Gallery - ![Marika Green](https://film.one/media/person/3876430/gallery-74aa76076ea3.jpg) Marika Green — Sabine Maierhofer, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/87/Marika_Green_in_2013.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled) - ![Marika Green](https://film.one/media/person/3876430/gallery-82946f205fbd.jpg) Marika Green — Image via TMDB --- © Fi1m Ltd. 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