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Sylvie Testud
Born · January 17, 1971 (53 years old)
Known For: Acting
Place of Birth: Lyon, Rhône, France
Bio
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
Nicole Martin
5.5
2024
Marinette
Régine Pierre, Saint-Memmie coach
6.7
2023
Des mains en or
Rose
5.5
2023
Maman, ne me laisse pas m'endormir
Sophie
8.0
2022
Champagne !
Joanna
5.3
2022
Flashback
Olympe de Gouges
5.9
2021
L'Heureux Stratagème
La Comtesse
0.0
2021
Fan Club
Anna
0.0
2018
Spiderwebhouse
Sabine
5.9
2015
Two Women
Elisaveta Bogdanovna
6.8
2014
Ceux qui dansent sur la tête
Catherine
5.3
2014
Papa Was Not a Rolling Stone
Nadiège
5.7
2014
French Women
Sam
5.8
2014
96 heures
Marion Reynaud
5.5
2014
My Name Is Hmmm...
La mère de Céline
5.5
2013
Les Déferlantes
Louise
5.1
2013
For a Woman
Anne
6.1
2013
A Song For Mama
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4.9
2013
Roxana's Hands
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4.5
2013
Max
Nina
5.7
2013
Rebellion
Chantal Legorjus
6.7
2011
The Night Clerk
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5.6
2011
The Rebel, Louise Michel
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5.8
2010
Mumu
Mumu
6.0
2010
The Round Up
Bella Zygler
7.6
2010
Sisters
Sybille adulte
5.3
2009
Lucky Luke
Calamity Jane
4.5
2009
Lourdes
Christine
6.7
2009
Vengeance
Irene Costello
6.6
2009
A Happy Man
Catherine
4.5
2009
The Idiot
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6.5
2008
Sagan
Françoise Quoirez dite Sagan
6.2
2008
The Vanishing Point
Lucie Audibert
5.6
2007
La France
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6.4
2007
Eat, for This Is My Body
Madame
3.6
2007
La Vie en Rose
Simone "Mômone" Berteaut
7.4
2007
Legacy
Patricia
6.3
2006
La vie est à nous !
Louise Delhomme
5.2
2005
Words in Blue
Clara
6.2
2005
Victoire
Victoire
1.0
2004
Cause toujours !
Léa
4.5
2004
Tout pour l'o$eille
Prune
4.5
2004
Tomorrow We Move
Charlotte
5.3
2004
Labyrinth
Claude
6.6
2003
Dead Man's Memories
Das Mädchen
4.4
2003
Only Girls
Tina
6.2
2003
Fear and Trembling
Amélie
6.4
2003
A Loving Father
Virginia
5.2
2002
Life Kills Me
Myriam
5.2
2002
Stolen Tangos
Alice / Paula
5.0
2002
Women or Children First
Virginie
5.7
2002
Un moment de bonheur
L'institutrice
4.9
2002
Everyman's Feast
Sophie
2.0
2002
The Château
Isabelle
4.8
2001
The Dark Room
Azalaïs
3.7
2000
Murderous Maids
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6.5
2000
The Captive
Ariane
5.5
2000
Scénarios sur la drogue
Segment "Lucie"
5.0
2000
Annaluise & Anton
Laurence
7.1
1999
Karnaval
Béa
6.4
1999
Marée haute
0.0
1999
Fire in Paradise
Esther
5.2
1997
Beyond Silence
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6.9
1996
Tout un poème
0.0
Elles deux
Sandrine
0.0
Sur la dalle
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4.3
2024
Jíkuri. Journey to the Land of the Tarahumara
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4.0
2024
Knok
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2.3
2024
Flair de famille
Capitaine Caroline Flament · (3 episodes)
7.0
2023
The Grand Restaurant IV
8.0
2022
Club Première
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0.0
2022
Simone: Woman of the Century
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8.0
2022
What Pauline Is Not Telling You
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6.0
2022
Runaway
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6.3
2021
The Grand Restaurant III
The nymphomaniac's friend
5.3
2021
I Love You Coiffure
Geneviève (segment "L'Addition")
3.9
2020
Fear by the Lake
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6.5
2020
Meet the Malawas
Nathalie Dulac
4.4
2019
Kem's
Self · (1 episode)
0.0
2019
Disclaimer
Maïté
4.7
2019
Eden
Hélène · (6 episodes)
7.8
2019
Quand sort la recluse
le lieutenant Froissy
5.3
2019
Wide Load
Jennifer
4.1
2019
Defiant Souls
Enriqueta Faber / Enrique Faber
6.4
2019
Deutsch-Les-Landes
Odile · (10 episodes)
8.0
2018
Suspiria
Miss Griffith
6.9
2018
Deux gouttes d'eau
Valérie Laforge
6.1
2018
A New Girl in Paris!
Amandine
6.4
2018
Kings for a Day
Val
5.7
2018
Final Portrait
Annette Giacometti
6.1
2017
Wedding Unplanned
Clarisse
6.1
2017
Maximilian and Marie De Bourgogne
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6.9
2017
Mörderische Stille
Elena
5.5
2017
Tamara
Amandine
6.3
2016
The Exchange Student
Eloïse
5.4
2016
The Visitors: Bastille Day
Charlotte de Robespierre
4.1
2016
Arrête ton cinéma !
Sybille
4.6
2016
Capitaine Marleau
Salomé Revel · (1 episode)
5.8
2015
Too Close to the Sun
Sophie Picard
5.8
2015
Thanks to my Friends
Stéphane Brunge
5.0
2015
Gad Elmaleh - Le Big Show
Self
6.6
2015
24 Days
Brigitte Farell
6.6
2014
À votre bon cœur, mesdames
Lolita
5.0
2013
La Parenthèse inattendue
Self · (1 episode)
8.5
2012
28 minutes
Self · (1 episode)
2.5
2012
L'Amour, la mort, les fringues
7.0
2011
Sentiments provisoires
Hélène
6.0
2010
C à vous
Self · (1 episode)
6.0
2009
Can't Say No
Adèle
0.0
2009
Panique dans l'oreillette
Self · (1 episode)
6.4
2008
Arthur Honegger - Jeanne D'Arc Au Bucher
Jeanne d'Arc
0.0
2007
Rendez-vous in an Unknown Land
Self · (1 episode)
7.3
2004
Autour d’hier aujourd’hui et demain (on déménage)
Self / Charlotte
0.0
2004
A Day in the Life of French Cinema
Self
0.0
2002
Les acteurs anonymes
Self (uncredited)
5.0
2001
I’m Going Home
Ariel
6.9
2001
Julies Geist
Julia
0.0
2001
Bad Connection
Laurence
6.0
2000
In Heaven
Valeska
0.0
1999
The Misadventures of Margaret
Young Nun
5.2
1998
Sentimental Education
Julia
0.0
1998
Those Were the Days
Sylvie
5.9
1995
Éternelles
Nathalie
0.0
1994
The Story of a Boy Who Wanted to Be Kissed
Girl at party offering food
3.0
1994
Marie's Song
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5.0
1994
Où vont les âmes?
0.0
Deutscher Filmpreis
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6.0
1951