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.
Fotos
Películas (115)
Jíkuri. Journey to the Land of the Tarahumara
2026 · Mathilde
Cocorico 2
2026 · Nicole Martin
LOL 2.0: Anne’s Golden Hour
2026 · Sylvie
Where Souls Go
2025 · Stéphanie
Proust and Signs: On Chantal Akerman's "La Captive"
2025 · archive image
The Two of Them
2024 · Sandrine
Cocorico
2024 · Nicole Martin
Marinette
2023 · Régine Pierre, Saint-Memmie coach
Des mains en or
2023 · Rose
The Grand Restaurant IV
2022
Maman, ne me laisse pas m'endormir
2022 · Sophie, Director
Simone: Woman of the Century
2022 · Marceline Rozenberg (1968 - 1979)
Tout le monde savait
2022 · Valérie Bacot
Champagne !
2022 · Joanna
Flashback
2021 · Olympe de Gouges
L'Heureux Stratagème
2021 · La Comtesse
The Grand Restaurant III
2021 · The nymphomaniac's friend
I Love You Coiffure
2020 · Geneviève (segment "L'Addition")
Meet the Malawas
2019 · Nathalie Dulac
Disclaimer
2019 · Maïté
Quand sort la recluse
2019 · le lieutenant Froissy
Wide Load
2019 · Jennifer
Defiant Souls
2019 · Enriqueta Faber / Enrique Faber
Suspiria
2018 · Miss Griffith
Deux gouttes d'eau
2018 · Valérie Laforge
Fan Club
2018 · Anna
A New Girl in Paris!
2018 · Amandine
Kings for a Day
2018 · Val
Final Portrait
2017 · Annette Giacometti
Wedding Unplanned
2017 · Clarisse
Mörderische Stille
2017 · Elena
Tamara
2016 · Amandine
The Exchange Student
2016 · Eloïse
The Visitors: Bastille Day
2016 · Charlotte de Robespierre
Arrête ton cinéma !
2016 · Sybille, Novel, Screenplay
Too Close to the Sun
2015 · Sophie Picard
Gad Elmaleh - Le Big Show
2015 · Self
Thanks to my Friends
2015 · Stéphane Brunge
Spiderwebhouse
2015 · Sabine
Two Women
2014 · Elisaveta Bogdanovna
Ceux qui dansent sur la tête
2014 · Catherine
Papa Was Not a Rolling Stone
2014 · Nadiège
French Women
2014 · Sam
24 Days
2014 · Brigitte Farell
96 heures
2014 · Marion Reynaud
À votre bon cœur, mesdames
2013 · Lolita
My Name Is Hmmm...
2013 · La mère de Céline
Les Déferlantes
2013 · Louise
For a Woman
2013 · Anne
A Song For Mama
2013 · Sylvie
Roxana's Hands
2013 · Roxana Orlac
Max
2013 · Nina
Another Woman's Life
2012 · Director, Writer
Rebellion
2011 · Chantal Legorjus
The Night Clerk
2011 · Sylvie Poncet
L'Amour, la Mort, les Fringues
2011
The Rebel, Louise Michel
2010 · Louise Michel
Mumu
2010 · Mumu
The Round Up
2010 · Bella Zygler
Sentiments provisoires
2010 · Hélène
Sisters
2009 · Sybille adulte, Novel
Lucky Luke
2009 · Calamity Jane
Lourdes
2009 · Christine
Can't Say No
2009 · Adèle
Vengeance
2009 · Irene Costello
A Happy Man
2009 · Catherine
The Idiot
2008 · Darya Alexeyevna
Sagan
2008 · Françoise Quoirez dite Sagan
The Vanishing Point
2007 · Lucie Audibert
Arthur Honegger - Jeanne D'Arc Au Bucher
2007 · Jeanne d'Arc
La France
2007 · Camille
Eat, for This Is My Body
2007 · Madame
La Vie en Rose
2007 · Simone 'Mômone' Berteaut
Legacy
2006 · Patricia
La vie est à nous !
2005 · Louise Delhomme
Words in Blue
2005 · Clara
Victoire
2004 · Victoire
Cause toujours !
2004 · Léa
Tout pour l'oseille
2004 · Prune
Tomorrow We Move
2004 · Charlotte
Making of Tomorrow We Move
2004 · Self / Charlotte
Labyrinth
2003 · Claude
Dead Man's Memories
2003 · Das Mädchen
Only Girls
2003 · Tina
Fear and Trembling
2003 · Amélie
A Loving Father
2002 · Virginia
Life Kills Me
2002 · Myriam
A Day in the Life of French Cinema
2002 · Self
Stolen Tangos
2002 · Alice / Paula
Women or Children First
2002 · Virginie
A Moment of Happiness
2002 · L'institutrice
Everyman's Feast
2002 · Sophie
Les acteurs anonymes
2001 · Self (uncredited)
I’m Going Home
2001 · Ariel
The Château
2001 · Isabelle
Julies Geist
2001 · Julia
The Dark Room
2000 · Azalaïs
Murderous Maids
2000 · Christine Papin
The Captive
2000 · Ariane
Scénarios sur la drogue
2000 · Segment "Lucie"
Bad Connection
2000 · Laurence
Gigantic
1999 · Thanks
In Heaven
1999 · Valeska
Annaluise & Anton
1999 · Laurence
Karnaval
1999 · Béa
Marée haute
1999
The Misadventures of Margaret
1998 · Young Nun
Sentimental Education
1998 · Julia
Fire in Paradise
1997 · Esther
Beyond Silence
1996 · Lara
Those Were the Days
1995 · Sylvie
Éternelles
1994 · Nathalie
The Story of a Boy Who Wanted to Be Kissed
1994 · Girl at party offering food
Marie's Song
1994 · Marie
Tout un poème
· Director, Screenplay
Series (23)
Sur la dalle
2024 · Froissy
Knok
2024 · Blanche
A Case for Kin
2023 · Capitaine Caroline Flament
The Unexpected Getaway
2022 · Self
Club Première
2022 · Self - Guest
Le Figaro La Nuit
2022
What Pauline Is Not Telling You
2022 · major de gendarmerie Marie Hermann
Un monde, un regard
2021
Runaway
2021 · Isabelle
Fear by the Lake
2020 · Alice Wagner
Kemps
2019 · Self
Eden
2019 · Hélène
Quand sort la recluse
2019 · le lieutenant Froissy
Deutsch-Les-Landes
2018 · Odile
Maximilian and Marie De Bourgogne
2017 · Charlotte de Savoye
Capitaine Marleau
2015 · Salomé Revel
The Unexpected Getaway
2012 · Self
28 minutes
2012 · Self
C à vous
2009 · Self, Self - Guest
Panique dans l'oreillette
2008 · Self
On n'est pas couché
2006 · Self - Guest
Rendez-vous in an Unknown Land
2004 · Self
German Film Award
1951 · Self