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name: "Michèle Ray-Gavras"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/michele-ray-gavras"
fi1m_id: "michele-ray-gavras"
imdb_id: "nm0713042"
tmdb_id: 56840
wikidata_id: "Q3311678"
roles: ["Producer"]
born: "1 January 1939"
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average_as: "producer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T19:19:17.639001+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."
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# Michèle Ray-Gavras

## Identity

Michèle Ray-Gavras

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/michele-ray-gavras
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** michele-ray-gavras
- **IMDb ID:** nm0713042
- **TMDB ID:** 56840
- **Wikidata ID:** Q3311678
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mich%C3%A8le_Ray-Gavras, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3311678, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0713042/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/56840

Producer. Born 1 January 1939 in Paris, France.

## Details

- **Work:** Producer
- **Born:** 1 January 1939, Paris, France
- **Also known as:** Michèle Ray, Michèle Ray Gavras
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mich%C3%A8le_Ray-Gavras, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3311678, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0713042/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/56840

## Streaming the US now

- **Disney+:** [*No Other Choice*](https://film.one/film/no-other-choice.md) (78)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Michèle Ray-Gavras is a French film producer and former journalist. Born in Paris in 1939, she began her career as an independent journalist in the 1960s, reporting on conflicts in Vietnam and Bolivia for French media outlets.

She has produced numerous films, often in collaboration with her husband, director Costa-Gavras, through their company KG Productions. Her credits include *Special Section* (1975), *Amen.* (2002), *The Ax* (2005), *Capital* (2012), *Adults in the Room* (2019) and *No Other Choice* (2025).

Ray-Gavras married Costa-Gavras in 1968. Their children include producers and directors Alexandre Gavras, Julie Gavras and Romain Gavras.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *No Other Choice* (2025), Fi1m 78, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/no-other-choice.md)

## Complete filmography (23)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *No Other Choice* (2025), Producer — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/film/no-other-choice.md)
- *Before What Comes After* (2025), Producer
- *Adults in the Room* (2019), Producer
- *I Still Hide to Smoke* (2017), Producer
- *Graziella* (2015), Producer
- *Capital* (2012), Producer
- *Burke & Hare* (2010), as French Family
- *Summer of '62* (2007), Producer
- *The Colonel* (2006), Producer
- *Suzanne* (2005), Thanks
- *The Ax* (2005), Producer
- *Amen.* (2002), Producer
- *The Pirate, the Wizard, the Thief and the Children* (2002), Producer
- *Pereira Declares* (1995), Co-Producer
- *Cemetery Man* (1994), Executive Producer
- *Safe Journey* (1993), Producer
- *The Little Apocalypse* (1993), Producer
- *Family Business* (1986), Producer
- *Tea in the Harem* (1985), Producer
- *Hanna K.* (1983), Executive Producer
- *The Recourse to the Method* (1978), Producer
- *Special Section* (1975), Producer
- *Far from Vietnam* (1967), as Narrator (segment "Victor Charlie") (voice) · Camera Operator

## Gallery

- ![Costa-Gavras accompagné par son épouse Michèle Ray-Gavras lors de la sortie de l'hommage rendu à Jacques Perrin à l'hôtel des Invalides, en avril 2022.](https://film.one/media/person/7287/gallery-b1c76c15af3c.jpg) Costa-Gavras accompagné par son épouse Michèle Ray-Gavras lors de la sortie de l'hommage rendu à Jacques Perrin à l'hôtel des Invalides, en avril 2022. — ManoSolo13241324, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c8/Costa-Gavras_avril_2022.jpg/1280px-Costa-Gavras_avril_2022.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Michèle Ray-Gavras](https://film.one/media/person/7287/gallery-6fa09a208a4a.jpg) Michèle Ray-Gavras — Frank Ling and Luk, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/50/Mich%C3%A8le_Ray-Gavras_-_Octobre_2019.jpg/1280px-Mich%C3%A8le_Ray-Gavras_-_Octobre_2019.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Michèle Ray-Gavras](https://film.one/media/person/7287/gallery-efb3c25cdde7.jpg) Michèle Ray-Gavras — Image via TMDB

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