Sylvie Testud
Acting
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.
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Filmography of
Sylvie Testud
Rose
... 2023
Régine Pierre, coach Saint-Memmie
... 2023
Caroline
... 2023
Nicole Martin
... 2023
... 2022
... 2022
Joanna
... 2022
Marceline Rozenberg (1968 - 1979)
... 2021
Olympe de Gouges
... 2021
La Comtesse
... 2021
The nymphomaniac's friend
... 2021
Geneviève (segment "L'Addition")
... 2020
Nathalie Dulac
... 2019
Maïté
... 2019
le lieutenant Froissy
... 2019
Jennifer
... 2019
Enriqueta Faber / Enrique Faber
... 2019
Valérie Laforge
... 2018
Miss Griffith
... 2018
Anna
... 2018
Amandine
... 2018
Val
... 2018
Annette Giacometti
... 2017
Clarisse
... 2017
Elena
... 2017
Amandine
... 2016
Eloïse
... 2016
Charlotte de Robespierre
... 2016
Sybille
... 2016
Sophie Picard
... 2015
Stéphane Brunge
... 2015
Sabine
... 2015
... 2015
Elisaveta Bogdanovna
... 2014
Catherine
... 2014
Nadiège
... 2014
Sam
... 2014
Brigitte Farell
... 2014
Marion Reynaud
... 2014
Lolita
... 2013
La mère de Céline
... 2013
Louise
... 2013
Anne
... 2013
Sylvie
... 2013
Roxana Orlac
... 2013
Nina
... 2013
Chantal Legorjus
... 2011
Sylvie Poncet
... 2011
... 2011
Louise Michel
... 2010
Mumu
... 2010
Bella Zygler
... 2010
Hélène
... 2010
Sybille adulte
... 2009
Calamity Jane
... 2009
Christine
... 2009
... 2009
Irene Costello
... 2009
Catherine
... 2009
Darya Alexeyevna
... 2008
Françoise Quoirez dite Sagan
... 2008
Lucie Audibert
... 2007
Jeanne d'Arc
... 2007
Camille
... 2007
Madame
... 2007
Simone "Mômone" Berteaut
... 2007
Patricia
... 2006
Louise Delhomme
... 2005
Clara
... 2005
Victoire
... 2004
Léa
... 2004
Prune
... 2004
Charlotte
... 2004
Claude
... 2003
Das Mädchen
... 2003
Tina
... 2003
Amélie
... 2003
Virginia
... 2002
Myriam
... 2002
Alice / Paula
... 2002
Virginie
... 2002
L'institutrice
... 2002
Sophie
... 2002
... 2001
Ariel
... 2001
Isabelle
... 2001
Julia
... 2001
Azalaïs
... 2000
Christine Papin
... 2000
Ariane
... 2000
Laurence
... 2000
Segment "Lucie"
... 2000
... 1999
Laurence
... 1999
Béa
... 1999
... 1999
Young Nun
... 1998
Julia
... 1998
Esther
... 1997
Lara
... 1996
... 1995
Nathalie
... 1994
Girl at party offering food
... 1994
Marie
... 1994