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.
Fan Club
(Anna)
Beyond Silence
(Lara)
La Vie en Rose
(Simone "Mômone" Berteaut)
Annaluise & Anton
(Laurence)
Scénarios sur la drogue
(Segment "Lucie")
Flashback
(Olympe de Gouges)
Fear and Trembling
(Amélie)
Labyrinth
(Claude)
L'Heureux Stratagème
(La Comtesse)
A Happy Man
(Catherine)
Lucky Luke
(Calamity Jane)
The Round Up
(Bella Zygler)
Lourdes
(Christine)
Sagan
(Françoise Quoirez dite Sagan)
Marée haute
The Château
(Isabelle)
The Vanishing Point
(Lucie Audibert)
Sisters
(Sybille adulte)
Murderous Maids
(Christine Papin)
Mumu
(Mumu)
The Captive
(Ariane)
Un moment de bonheur
(L'institutrice)
Vengeance
(Irene Costello)
Life Kills Me
(Myriam)
Tout pour l'o$eille
(Prune)
The Night Clerk
(Sylvie Poncet)
Champagne !
(Joanna)
Only Girls
(Tina)
La France
(Camille)
Rebellion
(Chantal Legorjus)
La vie est à nous !
(Louise Delhomme)
Cause toujours !
(Léa)
Women or Children First
(Virginie)
A Loving Father
(Virginia)
Tomorrow We Move
(Charlotte)
Victoire
(Victoire)
The Rebel, Louise Michel
(Louise Michel)
Eat, for This Is My Body
(Madame)
The Dark Room
(Azalaïs)
Words in Blue
(Clara)
Karnaval
(Béa)
Marinette
(Régine Pierre, coach Saint-Memmie)
Legacy
(Patricia)
A Song For Mama
(Sylvie)
Max
(Nina)
Dead Man's Memories
(Das Mädchen)
Stolen Tangos
(Alice / Paula)
Cocorico
(Nicole Martin)
For a Woman
(Anne)
Les Déferlantes
(Louise)
My Name Is Hmmm...
(La mère de Céline)
Roxana's Hands
(Roxana Orlac)
Fire in Paradise
(Esther)
96 heures
(Marion Reynaud)
Des mains en or
(Rose)
Tout un poème
Maman, ne me laisse pas m'endormir
(Sophie)
French Women
(Sam)
Everyman's Feast
(Sophie)
Papa Was Not a Rolling Stone
(Nadiège)
Ceux qui dansent sur la tête
(Catherine)
The Idiot
(Darya Alexeyevna)
Two Women
(Elisaveta Bogdanovna)
Spiderwebhouse
(Sabine)
Elles deux
(Sandrine)
The Story of a Boy Who Wanted to Be Kissed
(Girl at party offering food)
24 Days
(Brigitte Farell)
The Misadventures of Margaret
(Young Nun)
The Visitors: Bastille Day
(Charlotte de Robespierre)
The Grand Restaurant IV
Les acteurs anonymes
(Self (uncredited))
Jíkuri. Journey to the Land of the Tarahumara
Arrête ton cinéma !
(Sybille)
Too Close to the Sun
(Sophie Picard)
Julies Geist
(Julia)
I’m Going Home
(Ariel)
The Exchange Student
(Eloïse)
Tamara
(Amandine)
Autour d’hier aujourd’hui et demain (on déménage)
(Self / Charlotte)
Suspiria
(Miss Griffith)
Thanks to my Friends
(Stéphane Brunge)
Can't Say No
Mörderische Stille
(Elena)
Marie's Song
(Marie)
Wedding Unplanned
(Clarisse)
Final Portrait
(Annette Giacometti)
Kings for a Day
(Val)
A New Girl in Paris!
(Amandine)
Bad Connection
(Laurence)
L'Amour, la mort, les fringues
Gad Elmaleh - Le Big Show
(Self)
Disclaimer
(Maïté)
Deux gouttes d'eau
(Valérie Laforge)
Arthur Honegger - Jeanne D'Arc Au Bucher
(Jeanne d'Arc)
Wide Load
(Jennifer)
Defiant Souls
(Enriqueta Faber / Enrique Faber)
Quand sort la recluse
(le lieutenant Froissy)
À votre bon cœur, mesdames
(Lolita)
Meet the Malawas
(Nathalie Dulac)
Sentiments provisoires
(Hélène)
Éternelles
(Nathalie)
In Heaven
Sentimental Education
(Julia)
I Love You Coiffure
(Geneviève (segment "L'Addition"))
Those Were the Days
The Grand Restaurant III
(The nymphomaniac's friend)
Simone: Woman of the Century
(Marceline Rozenberg (1968 - 1979))
Où vont les âmes?
A Day in the Life of French Cinema
(Self)
C à vous
(Self)
Runaway
(Isabelle)
La Parenthèse inattendue
(Self)
What Pauline Is Not Telling You
(major de gendarmerie Marie Hermann)
28 minutes
(Self)
Maximilian and Marie De Bourgogne
(Charlotte de Savoye)
Kem's
(Self)
Deutsch-Les-Landes
(Odile)
Flair de famille
(Capitaine Caroline Flament)
Deutscher Filmpreis
(Self)
Eden
(Hélène)
Club Première
(Self - Guest)
Knok
(Blanche)
Capitaine Marleau
(Salomé Revel)
Fear by the Lake
(Alice Wagner)
Panique dans l'oreillette
(Self)
Rendez-vous in an Unknown Land
(Self)
Sur la dalle
(Froissy)
