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