7.9
7.9
Simone: Woman of the Century
2022
as Marceline Rozenberg (1968 - 1979)
Sylvie Testud
Acting
Born:January 17, 1971(age 55)
Birthplace:Lyon, Rhône, France
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CommunityBiography
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.
Filmography (109 movies)
7.5
7.5
The Round Up
2010
as Bella Zygler
7.4
7.4
Maman, ne me laisse pas m'endormir
2022
Director
7.4
7.4
La Vie en Rose
2007
as Simone 'Mômone' Berteaut
7.0
7.0
Jíkuri. Journey to the Land of the Tarahumara
2024
as Mathilde
7.0
7.0
L'Amour, la Mort, les Fringues
2011
7.0
7.0
Annaluise & Anton
1999
as Laurence
6.9
6.9
Suspiria
2018
as Miss Griffith
6.9
6.9
Beyond Silence
1996
as Lara
6.7
6.7
I’m Going Home
2001
as Ariel
6.7
6.7
Rebellion
2011
as Chantal Legorjus
6.6
6.6
Lourdes
2009
as Christine
6.6
6.6
Vengeance
2009
as Irene Costello
6.6
6.6
Labyrinth
2003
as Claude
6.6
6.6
24 Days
2014
as Brigitte Farell
6.5
6.5
The Idiot
2008
as Darya Alexeyevna
6.5
6.5
Marinette
2023
as Régine Pierre, Saint-Memmie coach
6.4
6.4
Fear and Trembling
2003
as Amélie
6.4
6.4
Two Women
2014
as Elisaveta Bogdanovna
6.4
6.4
La France
2007
as Camille
6.4
6.4
Legacy
2006
as Patricia
6.4
6.4
A New Girl in Paris!
2018
as Amandine
6.3
6.3
Tamara
2016
as Amandine
6.2
6.2
LOL 2.0: Anne’s Golden Hour
2026
as Sylvie
6.2
6.2
Only Girls
2003
as Tina
6.2
6.2
Sagan
2008
as Françoise Quoirez dite Sagan
6.2
6.2
Words in Blue
2005
as Clara
6.2
6.2
Another Woman's Life
2012
Writer
6.1
6.1
Murderous Maids
2000
as Christine Papin
6.1
6.1
Wedding Unplanned
2017
as Clarisse
6.1
6.1
Deux gouttes d'eau
2018
as Valérie Laforge
6.1
6.1
Defiant Souls
2019
as Enriqueta Faber / Enrique Faber
6.0
6.0
Final Portrait
2017
as Annette Giacometti
6.0
6.0
Bad Connection
2000
as Laurence
6.0
6.0
Sentiments provisoires
2010
as Hélène
6.0
6.0
Karnaval
1999
as Béa
6.0
6.0
For a Woman
2013
as Anne
5.9
5.9
The Rebel, Louise Michel
2010
as Louise Michel
5.9
5.9
Flashback
2021
as Olympe de Gouges
5.9
5.9
Spiderwebhouse
2015
as Sabine
5.9
5.9
Quand sort la recluse
2019
as le lieutenant Froissy
5.8
5.8
Gad Elmaleh - Le Big Show
2015
as Self
5.8
5.8
Tomorrow We Move
2004
as Charlotte
5.8
5.8
Max
2013
as Nina
5.8
5.8
Mumu
2010
as Mumu
5.8
5.8
French Women
2014
as Sam
5.7
5.7
Too Close to the Sun
2015
as Sophie Picard
5.7
5.7
The Vanishing Point
2007
as Lucie Audibert
5.7
5.7
The Night Clerk
2011
as Sylvie Poncet
5.6
5.6
Kings for a Day
2018
as Val
5.6
5.6
The Captive
2000
as Ariane
5.6
5.6
Papa Was Not a Rolling Stone
2014
as Nadiège
5.5
5.5
Cocorico
2024
as Nicole Martin
5.5
5.5
Mörderische Stille
2017
as Elena
5.5
5.5
My Name Is Hmmm...
2013
as La mère de Céline
5.5
5.5
Des mains en or
2023
as Rose
5.4
5.4
Those Were the Days
1995
as Sylvie
5.4
5.4
The Exchange Student
2016
as Eloïse
5.4
5.4
96 heures
2014
as Marion Reynaud
5.4
5.4
La vie est à nous !
2005
as Louise Delhomme
5.3
5.3
A Loving Father
2002
as Virginia
5.3
5.3
Ceux qui dansent sur la tête
2014
as Catherine
5.3
5.3
Sisters
2009
as Sybille adulte
5.2
5.2
Champagne !
2022
as Joanna
5.2
5.2
A Moment of Happiness
2002
as L'institutrice
5.1
5.1
Les Déferlantes
2013
as Louise
5.1
5.1
Cocorico 2
2026
as Nicole Martin
5.0
5.0
À votre bon cœur, mesdames
2013
as Lolita
5.0
5.0
Scénarios sur la drogue
2000
as Segment "Lucie"
5.0
5.0
Stolen Tangos
2002
as Alice / Paula
5.0
5.0
Women or Children First
2002
as Virginie
5.0
5.0
Thanks to my Friends
2015
as Stéphane Brunge
5.0
5.0
Les acteurs anonymes
2001
as Self (uncredited)
4.9
4.9
A Song For Mama
2013
as Sylvie
4.8
4.8
Fire in Paradise
1997
as Esther
4.7
4.7
Disclaimer
2019
as Maïté
4.7
4.7
The Château
2001
as Isabelle
4.7
4.7
The Misadventures of Margaret
1998
as Young Nun
4.6
4.6
Arrête ton cinéma !
2016
Screenplay
4.5
4.5
Cause toujours !
2004
as Léa
4.5
4.5
Roxana's Hands
2013
as Roxana Orlac
4.5
4.5
Lucky Luke
2009
as Calamity Jane
4.5
4.5
A Happy Man
2009
as Catherine
4.5
4.5
Tout pour l'oseille
2004
as Prune
4.5
4.5
Marie's Song
1994
as Marie
4.5
4.5
Meet the Malawas
2019
as Nathalie Dulac
4.2
4.2
The Dark Room
2000
as Azalaïs
4.2
4.2
The Visitors: Bastille Day
2016
as Charlotte de Robespierre
4.2
4.2
Wide Load
2019
as Jennifer
4.1
4.1
Life Kills Me
2002
as Myriam
4.0
4.0
Dead Man's Memories
2003
as Das Mädchen
3.3
3.3
Eat, for This Is My Body
2007
as Madame
2.0
2.0
Everyman's Feast
2002
as Sophie
1.0
1.0
Victoire
2004
as Victoire
Tout un poème
TBA
Screenplay
Marée haute
1999
Elles deux
2024
as Sandrine
Making of Tomorrow We Move
2004
as Self / Charlotte
Where Souls Go
2025
Tout le monde savait
2022
as Valérie Bacot
Proust and Signs: On Chantal Akerman's "La Captive"
2025
as archive image
Julies Geist
2001
as Julia
Can't Say No
2009
as Adèle
Éternelles
1994
as Nathalie
Arthur Honegger - Jeanne D'Arc Au Bucher
2007
as Jeanne d'Arc
Fan Club
2018
as Anna
L'Heureux Stratagème
2021
as La Comtesse
In Heaven
1999
as Valeska
Sentimental Education
1998
as Julia
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