French actress Emmanuelle Riva has died at the age of 89. <br /><br /> She had reportedly been suffering from cancer. <br /><br /> In a career spanning some 60 years she will be best remembered for two films. <br /><br /> One was her very first. The 1959 classic Hiroshima mon amour. The movie helped spearhead the so called French New Wave. <br /><br /> The second was almost her last. Michael Haneke’s 2012 masterpiece ‘‘Amour’‘. In it, Riva played an octogenarian music teacher cared for by her husband after a series of strokes.<br />
