Michèle Suzanne Ray (born 1939), better known as Michèle Ray-Gavras, is a French film producer and journalist.
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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 brought back a special report published in the Nouvel Observateur, a film that was used in the documentary Far from Vietnam, and she published a book, The Two Shores of Hell.
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.