Sylvie Testud
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
Anna
Fan Club
Lara
Jenseits der Stille
Simone 'Mômone' Berteaut
La Môme
Laurence
Pünktchen und Anton
Segment "Lucie"
Scénarios sur la drogue
Olympe de Gouges
Flashback
Amélie
Stupeur et tremblements
Claude
Dédales
La Comtesse
L'Heureux Stratagème
Catherine
Le bonheur de Pierre
Calamity Jane
Lucky Luke
Bella Zygler
La Rafle
Christine
Lourdes
Françoise Quoirez dite Sagan
Sagan
Marée haute
Isabelle
The Château
Lucie Audibert
Ce que mes yeux ont vu
Sybille adulte
Gamines
Christine Papin
Les blessures assassines
Mumu
Mumu
Ariane
La Captive
L'institutrice
Un moment de bonheur
Irene Costello
復仇
Myriam
Vivre me tue
Prune
Tout pour l'o$eille
Sylvie Poncet
Avant l'Aube
Joanna
Champagne !
Tina
Filles uniques
Camille
La France
Chantal Legorjus
L'Ordre et la Morale
Louise Delhomme
La vie est à nous !
Léa
Cause toujours !
Virginie
Les Femmes… ou les enfants d'abord…
Virginia
Aime ton père
Charlotte
Demain on déménage
Victoire
Victoire
Louise Michel
Louise Michel la rebelle
Madame
Mange, ceci est mon corps
Azalaïs
La Chambre obscure
Clara
Les mots bleus
Béa
Karnaval
Régine Pierre, Saint-Memmie coach
Marinette
Patricia
L'Héritage
Sylvie
Une chanson pour ma mère
Nina
Max
Das Mädchen
Der Gläserne Blick
Alice / Paula
Tangos Volés
Nicole Martin
Cocorico
Anne
Pour une femme
Louise
Les Déferlantes
La mère de Céline
Je m'appelle Hmmm...
Roxana Orlac
Les mains de Roxana
Esther
Flammen im Paradies
Marion Reynaud
96 heures
Rose
Des mains en or
Tout un poème
Sophie
Maman, ne me laisse pas m'endormir
Sam
Sous les jupes des filles
Sophie
Jedermanns Fest
Nadiège
Papa Was Not a Rolling Stone
Catherine
Ceux qui dansent sur la tête
Darya Alexeyevna
L'idiot
Elisaveta Bogdanovna
Две женщины
Sabine
Im Spinnwebhaus
Sandrine
Elles deux
Girl at party offering food
L'histoire du garçon qui voulait qu'on l'embrasse
Brigitte Farell
24 Jours
Young Nun
The Misadventures of Margaret
Charlotte de Robespierre
Les Visiteurs : La Révolution
Le Grand Restaurant : La Guerre de l'étoile
Self (uncredited)
Les acteurs anonymes
Mathilde
Jíkuri
Sybille
Arrête ton cinéma !
Sophie Picard
Au plus près du soleil
Julia
Julies Geist
Ariel
Je rentre à la maison
Eloïse
Le Correspondant
Amandine
Tamara
Self / Charlotte
Autour d’hier aujourd’hui et demain (on déménage)
Miss Griffith
Suspiria
Stéphane Brunge
Le Talent de mes amis
Adèle
Je ne dis pas non
Elena
Mörderische Stille
Marie
Maries Lied: Ich war, ich weiß nicht wo
Clarisse
Jour J
Annette Giacometti
Final Portrait
Val
Comme des rois
Amandine
Tamara Vol. 2
Laurence
Faux contact
L'Amour, la Mort, les Fringues
Self
Gad Elmaleh - Le Big Show
Maïté
Toute ressemblance…
Valérie Laforge
Deux gouttes d'eau
Jeanne d'Arc
Arthur Honegger - Jeanne D'Arc Au Bucher
Jennifer
Convoi exceptionnel
Enriqueta Faber / Enrique Faber
Insumisas
le lieutenant Froissy
Quand sort la recluse
Lolita
À votre bon cœur, mesdames
Nathalie Dulac
Rendez-vous chez les Malawas
Hélène
Sentiments provisoires
Nathalie
Éternelles
Valeska
In Heaven
Julia
Sentimental Education
Geneviève (segment "L'Addition")
I Love You Coiffure
Sylvie
Le Plus Bel Âge
The nymphomaniac's friend
Le Grand Restaurant : Réouverture après travaux
Marceline Rozenberg (1968 - 1979)
Simone, le voyage du siècle
Où vont les âmes?
Self
Un jour dans la vie du cinéma français
Valérie Bacot
Tout le monde savait
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
110
Gender
Female
Birthday
1971-01-17
Place of Birth
Lyon, Rhône, France
Also Known As
Sylvie Voyer