Michèle Ray-Gavras

Michèle Suzanne Ray (born 1939), better known as Michèle Ray-Gavras, is a French film producer and journalist.

Career As an independent journalist between 1963 and 1977, Michèle Ray covered struggles in Vietnam and Bolivia for multiple French media.

Between April 1966 and February 1967, while reporting on the Vietnam War, Michèle Ray traveled in South Vietnam among the American GI forces. She then continued to the communist north and was captured by the Vietcong on 17 January 1967. She was liberated on 6 February after falling sick.

She traveled to Bolivia in 1967 to report on the capture and death of Che Guevara, publishing an article in Paris Match before being expelled from the country. In 1971, Michèle Ray was covering the Uruguayan general election for French television and radio, when she was kidnapped by the anarchist group OPR-33 and held for 3 days, between 29 November and 3 December before being released. Costa Gavras was in Uruguay at the time, preparing his film State of Siege.

Producer

1978 : The Recourse to the Method (El recurso del método) by Miguel Littín 1983 : Hanna K. by Costa-Gavras 1985 : Le Thé au harem d'Archimède by Mehdi Charef 1986 : Conseil de famille by Costa-Gavras 1987 : Miss Mona by Mehdi Charef 1988 : Camomille by Mehdi Charef 1993 : Latcho Drom by Tony Gatlif 1993 : La Petite Apocalypse by Costa-Gavras 1994 : En attendant les barbares (ou Loin des barbares) by Liria Bégéja 1996 : Pereira prétend (Sostiene Pereira) by Roberto Faenza 1996 : Mondo by Tony Gatlif 1996 : Rainbow pour Rimbaud by Jean Teulé 2002 : Le Corsaire, le magicien, le voleur et les enfants (documentaire) by Julie Gavras 2002 : Amen. by Costa-Gavras 2005 : Le Couperet by Costa-Gavras 2006 : Mon colonel by Laurent Herbiet 2007 : Cartouches gauloises by Mehdi Charef 2012 : Avant que de tout perdre by Xavier Legrand 2015 : Maintenant ils peuvent venir by Salem Brahimi 2015 : Graziella by Mehdi Charef 2017 : À mon âge je me cache encore pour fumer by Rayhana (Obermeyer) 2019 : Adults in the Room by Costa-Gavras 2025 : No Other Choice by Park Chan-wook

Personal life Ray married Costa Gavras in 1968, on the set of Z. They have 3 children, Alexandre Gavras, Julie Gavras, and Romain Gavras. She is also the mother of Patrick Maffone, from an earlier union.