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