Marika Rivera was a French

France

The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

 film actress and dancer.

She was born in Paris

Paris

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, the non-marital daughter of the Mexican artist Diego Rivera

Diego Rivera

Diego María de la Concepción Juan Nepomuceno Estanislao de la Rivera y Barrientos Acosta y Rodríguez was a prominent Mexican painter born in Guanajuato, Guanajuato, an active communist, and husband of Frida Kahlo . His large wall works in fresco helped establish the Mexican Mural Movement in...

 and his mistress, the Russian-born painter Marie Vorobieff

Marie Vorobieff

Marie Bronislava Vorobieff-Stebelska , also known as Marevna, was a Russian-born Cubist painter. She is internationally known for convincingly combining elements of cubism with pointillism and – through the use of the Golden Ratio for laying out paintings – structure. She tends to be accredited...

-Stebelska ("Marevna"). Rivera, who was married to Angelina Beloff

Angelina Beloff

Angelina Beloff was a Russian painter and sculptor, who worked predominantly in Mexico.- Biography :Beloff originally decided to study pediatrics, but then she matriculated to St. Petersburg Academy of Arts in 1904, where she studied until 1909...

, did not accept his daughter. So she grew up under the care of her mother, who later had an affair with the artist Chaim Soutine

Chaim Soutine

Chaïm Soutine was a Jewish painter from Belarus. Soutine made a major contribution to the expressionist movement while living in Paris....

. Marika Rivera participated in dancing and acting classes. In 1938 she married the painter Jean Paul Brusset

Jean Paul Brusset

Jean Paul Brusset was an internationally acclaimed painter with what has been described as "a strong Mediterranean flair"...

, and gave birth to their son Jean Brusset. Later she married Rodney Philipps, who was the owner of the Athelhampton House, Dorset

Dorset

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, from 1949 to 1957. In Dorset she bore her second son David Philipps in 1949. Since her second divorce she had lived in Ealing

Ealing

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 in Greater London

Greater London

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, England

England

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. She died on January 14, 2010.

External links

• Marika Rivera - Daily Telegraph obituary
• CBC News: Dancer, actress daughter of artist Diego Rivera dies