Michèle Ray-Gavras (born 1939) is a French film producer and journalist.

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

[2] 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.

[3] 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.

[4] Costa Gavras was in Uruguay at the time, preparing his film State of Siege.