
Sylvie Testud
Sylvie Testud was born on January 17, 1971 in Lyon. Her parents separated when she was two years old. She spent her youth in the Lyon district of Croix-Rousse, raised by her mother, an accountant. In high school, she learned Chinese. Very early fascinated by the cinema, the young girl identifies in particular with the complexed teenager character embodied by Charlotte Gainsbourg in L'Effrontée. Having moved to Paris to study history, she soon embarked on acting by joining the free class at Cours Florent and then the Conservatory, where her teachers were Jacques Lassalle and Catherine Hiegel. She made her first screen appearance in 1994 in Couples et amants. She decided to become an actress during her youth, after having admired actresses in films. She then took acting lessons in Lyon with the actor and director Christian Taponard. In 1989, she moved to Paris to study history, as well as drama lessons in free classes at Cours Florent, then at the National Conservatory of Dramatic Art for three years, with Jacques Lassalle and Catherine Hiegel for teachers. In the early 1990s, she obtained her first small roles in the cinema, then in feature films such as The Story of the Boy Who Wanted to Be Kissed by Philippe Harel (1994), Le Plus Bel Age..., by Didier Haudepin (1995) or even Love, etc. by Marion Vernoux (1996). In 1997, Sylvie Testud experienced her first great success at the cinema in Germany with the film Beyond Silence by Caroline Link, for which she learned German, the clarinet and sign language. She is rewarded as best actress by the German Film Prize (the equivalent of the César for best actress). In 1998, she played her first major role in French cinema and enjoyed great success in France with the role of Béa in Karnaval, the first feature film by Thomas Vincent, for which she was nominated for the César for best female hope and received the Michael Simon Prize. She then began an important acting career with a preference for auteur cinema. In 2000, her performance in La Captive by Chantal Akerman (adaptation of the novel La Prisonnière by Marcel Proust) earned her a nomination as best actress at the European Film Prize. In 2001, she obtained, for her second nomination, the César for best female hope for the remarkable interpretation of Christine Papin, one of the Papin sisters, in Les Blessures assassines by Jean-Pierre Denis, based on a news item from 1933.
Known For
Credits
- 2024 · Sur la dalle as Froissy
- 2024 · Elles deux as Sandrine
- 2023 · Des mains en or as Rose
- 2021 · L'Heureux Stratagème as La Comtesse
- 2020 · I Love You Coiffure as Geneviève (segment "L'Addition")
- 2019 · Disclaimer as Maïté
- 2019 · Quand sort la recluse as le lieutenant Froissy
- 2019 · Defiant Souls as Enriqueta Faber / Enrique Faber
- 2018 · Fan Club as Anna
- 2018 · Kings for a Day as Val
- 2016 · The Exchange Student as Eloïse
- 2015 · Spiderwebhouse as Sabine
- 2014 · Papa Was Not a Rolling Stone as Nadiège
- 2013 · À votre bon cœur, mesdames as Lolita
- 2013 · Les Déferlantes as Louise
- 2011 · The Night Clerk as Sylvie Poncet
- 2010 · The Rebel, Louise Michel as Louise Michel
- 2009 · Sisters as Sybille adulte
- 2009 · A Happy Man as Catherine
- 2008 · The Idiot as Darya Alexeyevna
- 2005 · Words in Blue as Clara
- 2004 · Tout pour l'o$eille as Prune
- 2004 · Tomorrow We Move as Charlotte
- 2003 · Only Girls as Tina
- 2002 · Life Kills Me as Myriam
- 2002 · A Day in the Life of French Cinema as Self
- 2002 · A Moment of Happiness as L'institutrice
- 2000 · Scénarios sur la drogue as Segment "Lucie"
- 1999 · Karnaval as Béa
- Future · Où vont les âmes? as
- 2026 · Cocorico 2 as Nicole Martin
- 2024 · Jíkuri. Journey to the Land of the Tarahumara as Mathilde
- 2024 · Knok as Blanche
- 2024 · Cocorico as Nicole Martin
- 2023 · Marinette as Régine Pierre, Saint-Memmie coach
- 2023 · Flair de famille as Capitaine Caroline Flament
- 2022 · The Grand Restaurant IV as
- 2022 · Club Première as Self - Guest
- 2022 · Maman, ne me laisse pas m'endormir as Sophie
- 2022 · Simone: Woman of the Century as Marceline Rozenberg (1968 - 1979)
- 2022 · Tout le monde savait as Valérie Bacot
- 2022 · Champagne ! as Joanna
- 2022 · What Pauline Is Not Telling You as major de gendarmerie Marie Hermann
- 2021 · Flashback as Olympe de Gouges
- 2021 · Runaway as Isabelle
- 2021 · The Grand Restaurant III as The nymphomaniac's friend
- 2020 · Fear by the Lake as Alice Wagner
- 2019 · Meet the Malawas as Nathalie Dulac
- 2019 · Kem's as Self
- 2019 · Eden as Hélène
- 2019 · Wide Load as Jennifer
- 2018 · Deutsch-Les-Landes as Odile
- 2018 · Suspiria as Miss Griffith
- 2018 · Deux gouttes d'eau as Valérie Laforge
- 2018 · A New Girl in Paris! as Amandine
- 2017 · Final Portrait as Annette Giacometti
- 2017 · Wedding Unplanned as Clarisse
- 2017 · Maximilian and Marie De Bourgogne as Charlotte de Savoye
- 2017 · Mörderische Stille as Elena
- 2016 · Tamara as Amandine
- 2016 · The Visitors: Bastille Day as Charlotte de Robespierre
- 2016 · Arrête ton cinéma ! as Sybille
- 2015 · Capitaine Marleau as Salomé Revel
- 2015 · Too Close to the Sun as Sophie Picard
- 2015 · Thanks to my Friends as Stéphane Brunge
- 2015 · Gad Elmaleh - Le Big Show as Self
- 2014 · Two Women as Elisaveta Bogdanovna
- 2014 · Ceux qui dansent sur la tête as Catherine
- 2014 · French Women as Sam
- 2014 · 24 Days as Brigitte Farell
- 2014 · 96 heures as Marion Reynaud
- 2013 · My Name Is Hmmm... as La mère de Céline
- 2013 · For a Woman as Anne
- 2013 · A Song For Mama as Sylvie
- 2013 · Roxana's Hands as Roxana Orlac
- 2013 · Max as Nina
- 2012 · La Parenthèse inattendue as Self
- 2012 · 28 minutes as Self
- 2011 · Rebellion as Chantal Legorjus
- 2011 · L'Amour, la Mort, les Fringues as
- 2010 · Mumu as Mumu
- 2010 · The Round Up as Bella Zygler
- 2010 · Sentiments provisoires as Hélène
- 2009 · Lucky Luke as Calamity Jane
- 2009 · Lourdes as Christine
- 2009 · C à vous as Self
- 2009 · Can't Say No as Adèle
- 2009 · Vengeance as Irene Costello
- 2008 · Panique dans l'oreillette as Self
- 2008 · Sagan as Françoise Quoirez dite Sagan
- 2007 · The Vanishing Point as Lucie Audibert
- 2007 · Arthur Honegger - Jeanne D'Arc Au Bucher as Jeanne d'Arc
- 2007 · La France as Camille
- 2007 · Eat, for This Is My Body as Madame
- 2007 · La Vie en Rose as Simone 'Mômone' Berteaut
- 2006 · Legacy as Patricia
- 2006 · On n'est pas couché as Self - Guest
- 2005 · La vie est à nous ! as Louise Delhomme
- 2004 · Rendez-vous in an Unknown Land as Self
- 2004 · Victoire as Victoire
- 2004 · Cause toujours ! as Léa
- 2004 · Autour d’hier aujourd’hui et demain (on déménage) as Self / Charlotte
- 2003 · Labyrinth as Claude
- 2003 · Dead Man's Memories as Das Mädchen
- 2003 · Fear and Trembling as Amélie
- 2002 · A Loving Father as Virginia
- 2002 · Stolen Tangos as Alice / Paula
- 2002 · Women or Children First as Virginie
- 2002 · Everyman's Feast as Sophie
- 2001 · Les acteurs anonymes as Self (uncredited)
- 2001 · I’m Going Home as Ariel
- 2001 · The Château as Isabelle
- 2001 · Julies Geist as Julia
- 2000 · The Dark Room as Azalaïs
- 2000 · Murderous Maids as Christine Papin
- 2000 · The Captive as Ariane
- 2000 · Bad Connection as Laurence
- 1999 · In Heaven as Valeska
- 1999 · Annaluise & Anton as Laurence
- 1999 · Marée haute as
- 1998 · The Misadventures of Margaret as Young Nun
- 1998 · Sentimental Education as Julia
- 1997 · Fire in Paradise as Esther
- 1996 · Beyond Silence as Lara
- 1995 · Those Were the Days as Sylvie
- 1994 · Éternelles as Nathalie
- 1994 · The Story of a Boy Who Wanted to Be Kissed as Girl at party offering food
- 1994 · Marie's Song as Marie
- 1951 · Deutscher Filmpreis as Self
- Future · Tout un poème as