
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 · 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 · Des mains en or as Rose
- 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 · 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 · I Love You Coiffure as Geneviève (segment "L'Addition")
- 2020 · Fear by the Lake as Alice Wagner
- 2019 · Meet the Malawas as Nathalie Dulac
- 2019 · Kem's as Self
- 2019 · Disclaimer as Maïté
- 2019 · Eden as Hélène
- 2019 · Quand sort la recluse as le lieutenant Froissy
- 2019 · Wide Load as Jennifer
- 2018 · Deutsch-Les-Landes as Odile
- 2018 · Suspiria as Miss Griffith
- 2018 · A New Girl in Paris! as Amandine
- 2018 · Kings for a Day as Val
- 2017 · Final Portrait as Annette Giacometti
- 2017 · Wedding Unplanned as Clarisse
- 2017 · Maximilian and Marie De Bourgogne as Charlotte de Savoye
- 2016 · Tamara as Amandine
- 2016 · The Exchange Student as Eloïse
- 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 · Spiderwebhouse as Sabine
- 2015 · Gad Elmaleh - Le Big Show as Self
- 2014 · Two Women as Elisaveta Bogdanovna
- 2014 · Papa Was Not a Rolling Stone as Nadiège
- 2014 · French Women as Sam
- 2014 · 24 Days as Brigitte Farell
- 2014 · 96 heures as Marion Reynaud
- 2013 · À votre bon cœur, mesdames as Lolita
- 2013 · Les Déferlantes as Louise
- 2013 · For a Woman as Anne
- 2013 · A Song For Mama as Sylvie
- 2013 · Max as Nina
- 2012 · La Parenthèse inattendue as Self
- 2012 · 28 minutes as Self
- 2011 · Rebellion as Chantal Legorjus
- 2011 · The Night Clerk as Sylvie Poncet
- 2011 · L'Amour, la Mort, les Fringues as
- 2010 · Mumu as Mumu
- 2010 · The Round Up as Bella Zygler
- 2009 · Sisters as Sybille adulte
- 2009 · Lucky Luke as Calamity Jane
- 2009 · Lourdes as Christine
- 2009 · C à vous as Self
- 2009 · Vengeance as Irene Costello
- 2008 · Panique dans l'oreillette as Self
- 2008 · The Idiot as Darya Alexeyevna
- 2008 · Sagan as Françoise Quoirez dite Sagan
- 2007 · The Vanishing Point as Lucie Audibert
- 2007 · La France as Camille
- 2007 · La Vie en Rose as Simone 'Mômone' Berteaut
- 2006 · Legacy as Patricia
- 2005 · La vie est à nous ! as Louise Delhomme
- 2005 · Words in Blue as Clara
- 2004 · Rendez-vous in an Unknown Land as Self
- 2004 · Victoire as Victoire
- 2004 · Tomorrow We Move as Charlotte
- 2003 · Labyrinth as Claude
- 2003 · Only Girls as Tina
- 2003 · Fear and Trembling as Amélie
- 2002 · A Loving Father as Virginia
- 2002 · A Day in the Life of French Cinema as Self
- 2002 · Women or Children First as Virginie
- 2002 · Everyman's Feast as Sophie
- 2001 · I’m Going Home as Ariel
- 2001 · The Château as Isabelle
- 2000 · The Dark Room as Azalaïs
- 2000 · Murderous Maids as Christine Papin
- 2000 · The Captive as Ariane
- 2000 · Scénarios sur la drogue as Segment "Lucie"
- 1999 · Annaluise & Anton as Laurence
- 1999 · Karnaval as Béa
- 1998 · The Misadventures of Margaret as Young Nun
- 1996 · Beyond Silence as Lara
- 1995 · Those Were the Days as Sylvie
- 1994 · The Story of a Boy Who Wanted to Be Kissed as Girl at party offering food
- 1994 · Marie's Song as Marie
- Future · Tout un poème as
- 2022 · Tout le monde savait as Valérie Bacot
- 2021 · L'Heureux Stratagème as La Comtesse
- 2019 · Defiant Souls as Enriqueta Faber / Enrique Faber
- 2018 · Deux gouttes d'eau as Valérie Laforge
- 2018 · Fan Club as Anna
- 2017 · Mörderische Stille as Elena
- 2014 · Ceux qui dansent sur la tête as Catherine
- 2013 · My Name Is Hmmm... as La mère de Céline
- 2013 · Roxana's Hands as Roxana Orlac
- 2010 · The Rebel, Louise Michel as Louise Michel
- 2010 · Sentiments provisoires as Hélène
- 2009 · Can't Say No as Adèle
- 2009 · A Happy Man as Catherine
- 2007 · Arthur Honegger - Jeanne D'Arc Au Bucher as Jeanne d'Arc
- 2007 · Eat, for This Is My Body as Madame
- 2004 · Cause toujours ! as Léa
- 2004 · Tout pour l'o$eille as Prune
- 2004 · Autour d’hier aujourd’hui et demain (on déménage) as Self / Charlotte
- 2003 · Dead Man's Memories as Das Mädchen
- 2002 · Life Kills Me as Myriam
- 2002 · Stolen Tangos as Alice / Paula
- 2002 · A Moment of Happiness as L'institutrice
- 2001 · Les acteurs anonymes as Self (uncredited)
- 2001 · Julies Geist as Julia
- 2000 · Bad Connection as Laurence
- 1999 · In Heaven as Valeska
- 1997 · Fire in Paradise as Esther
- Future · Elles deux as Sandrine
- 1999 · Marée haute as
- 1998 · Sentimental Education as Julia
- 1994 · Éternelles as Nathalie
- 1951 · Deutscher Filmpreis as Self
- Future · Où vont les âmes? as