Sylvie Testud
Acting
Born: January 17, 1971 (age 55) · Lyon, Rhône, France
Highest Rated
Biography
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
Suspiria
2018
La Vie en Rose
2007
The Round Up
2010
The Visitors: Bastille Day
2016
Tamara
2016
Lucky Luke
2009
Wedding Unplanned
2017
French Women
2014
Simone: Woman of the Century
2022
Cocorico
2024
A New Girl in Paris!
2018
Vengeance
2009
Photos (2)
Movies (104)
Suspiria
Miss Griffith
Cocorico 2
Nicole Martin
Too Close to the Sun
Sophie Picard
LOL 2.0: Anne’s Golden Hour
Sylvie
The Visitors: Bastille Day
Charlotte de Robespierre
La Vie en Rose
Simone 'Mômone' Berteaut
Vengeance
Irene Costello
Final Portrait
Annette Giacometti
Wedding Unplanned
Clarisse
The Round Up
Bella Zygler
Spiderwebhouse
Sabine
À votre bon cœur, mesdames
Lolita
Cocorico
Nicole Martin
The Idiot
Darya Alexeyevna
The Exchange Student
Eloïse
Lucky Luke
Calamity Jane
24 Days
Brigitte Farell
Tamara
Amandine
Labyrinth
Claude
French Women
Sam
Meet the Malawas
Nathalie Dulac
Simone: Woman of the Century
Marceline Rozenberg (1968 - 1979)
Legacy
Patricia
Everyman's Feast
Sophie
96 heures
Marion Reynaud
Wide Load
Jennifer
Mumu
Mumu
I’m Going Home
Ariel
Arrête ton cinéma !
Sybille
Fear and Trembling
Amélie
Beyond Silence
Lara
Jíkuri. Journey to the Land of the Tarahumara
Mathilde
The Captive
Ariane
In Heaven
Valeska
For a Woman
Anne
Des mains en or
Rose
A New Girl in Paris!
Amandine
Sentiments provisoires
Hélène
Karnaval
Béa
My Name Is Hmmm...
La mère de Céline
Annaluise & Anton
Laurence
Victoire
Victoire
Sagan
Françoise Quoirez dite Sagan
Champagne !
Joanna
Those Were the Days
Sylvie
The Grand Restaurant III
The nymphomaniac's friend
Max
Nina
Marinette
Régine Pierre, Saint-Memmie coach
Life Kills Me
Myriam
Bad Connection
Laurence
The Two of Them
Sandrine
The Story of a Boy Who Wanted to Be Kissed
Girl at party offering food
Quand sort la recluse
le lieutenant Froissy
The Misadventures of Margaret
Young Nun
I Love You Coiffure
Geneviève (segment "L'Addition")
Lourdes
Christine
Rebellion
Chantal Legorjus
Fire in Paradise
Esther
Tout pour l'oseille
Prune
Murderous Maids
Christine Papin
Flashback
Olympe de Gouges
Words in Blue
Clara
Kings for a Day
Val
Where Souls Go
Stéphanie
The Night Clerk
Sylvie Poncet
The Grand Restaurant IV
2022
Sentimental Education
Julia
Tomorrow We Move
Charlotte
Proust and Signs: On Chantal Akerman's "La Captive"
archive image
Two Women
Elisaveta Bogdanovna
Scénarios sur la drogue
Segment "Lucie"
Thanks to my Friends
Stéphane Brunge
Disclaimer
Maïté
La France
Camille
A Loving Father
Virginia
Eat, for This Is My Body
Madame
L'Heureux Stratagème
La Comtesse
A Song For Mama
Sylvie
The Château
Isabelle
L'Amour, la Mort, les Fringues
2011
Mörderische Stille
Elena
Maman, ne me laisse pas m'endormir
Sophie
The Dark Room
Azalaïs
Tout le monde savait
Valérie Bacot
The Vanishing Point
Lucie Audibert
Defiant Souls
Enriqueta Faber / Enrique Faber
Marie's Song
Marie
Dead Man's Memories
Das Mädchen
Ceux qui dansent sur la tête
Catherine
Only Girls
Tina
Roxana's Hands
Roxana Orlac
Papa Was Not a Rolling Stone
Nadiège
Marée haute
1999
A Happy Man
Catherine
Deux gouttes d'eau
Valérie Laforge
Cause toujours !
Léa
Women or Children First
Virginie
Les Déferlantes
Louise
La vie est à nous !
Louise Delhomme
A Moment of Happiness
L'institutrice
The Rebel, Louise Michel
Louise Michel
Sisters
Sybille adulte
Arthur Honegger - Jeanne D'Arc Au Bucher
Jeanne d'Arc
Can't Say No
Adèle
TV Shows (12)
Capitaine Marleau
Salomé Revel · 1 eps
Un monde, un regard
1 eps
Maximilian and Marie De Bourgogne
Charlotte de Savoye · 6 eps
Fear by the Lake
Alice Wagner · 6 eps
Eden
Hélène · 6 eps
A Case for Kin
Capitaine Caroline Flament · 5 eps
Deutsch-Les-Landes
Odile · 10 eps
Quand sort la recluse
le lieutenant Froissy · 2 eps
Runaway
Isabelle · 6 eps
Knok
Blanche · 6 eps
What Pauline Is Not Telling You
major de gendarmerie Marie Hermann · 4 eps
Sur la dalle
Froissy · 2 eps
Self / Appearances (14)
C à vous
Self · 1 eps
C à vous
Self - Guest · 1 eps
On n'est pas couché
Self - Guest · 1 eps
28 minutes
Self · 1 eps
The Unexpected Getaway
Self · 1 eps
The Unexpected Getaway
Self · 1 eps
Panique dans l'oreillette
Self · 1 eps
Kemps
Self · 1 eps
Rendez-vous in an Unknown Land
Self · 1 eps
Club Première
Self - Guest · 1 eps
A Day in the Life of French Cinema
Self
Gad Elmaleh - Le Big Show
Self
Les acteurs anonymes
Self (uncredited)
Making of Tomorrow We Move
Self / Charlotte
