Cast
Sylvie Testud
Acting
Cast
Sylvie Testud
Known for
Acting
Born
1971-01-17
From
Lyon, Rhône, France
Also known as Sylvie Voyer, Sylvie Voyet
Biography
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.
Suspiria
as Miss Griffith
La Vie en Rose
as Simone 'Mômone' Berteaut
Too Close to the Sun
as Sophie Picard
Vengeance
as Irene Costello
Meet the Malawas
as Nathalie Dulac
LOL 2.0: Anne’s Golden Hour
as Sylvie
The Round Up
as Bella Zygler
Cocorico 2
as Nicole Martin
24 Days
as Brigitte Farell
Cocorico
as Nicole Martin
Final Portrait
as Annette Giacometti
The Visitors: Bastille Day
as Charlotte de Robespierre
Mumu
as Mumu
Lucky Luke
as Calamity Jane
Wedding Unplanned
as Clarisse
Champagne !
as Joanna
The Captive
as Ariane
Lourdes
as Christine
Marinette
as Régine Pierre, Saint-Memmie coach
Simone: Woman of the Century
as Marceline Rozenberg (1968 - 1979)
Disclaimer
as Maïté
Beyond Silence
as Lara
Sagan
as Françoise Quoirez dite Sagan
Tamara
as Amandine
A Day in the Life of French Cinema
as Self
Only Girls
as Tina
Tomorrow We Move
as Charlotte
Annaluise & Anton
as Laurence
Les Déferlantes
as Louise
Marée haute
Fear and Trembling
as Amélie
The Exchange Student
as Eloïse
A New Girl in Paris!
as Amandine
I’m Going Home
as Ariel
French Women
as Sam
Rebellion
as Chantal Legorjus
The Grand Restaurant IV
Labyrinth
as Claude
For a Woman
as Anne
Sentimental Education
as Julia
Two Women
as Elisaveta Bogdanovna
Life Kills Me
as Myriam
La France
as Camille
Murderous Maids
as Christine Papin
Wide Load
as Jennifer
Scénarios sur la drogue
as Segment "Lucie"
The Château
as Isabelle
A Loving Father
as Virginia
The Misadventures of Margaret
as Young Nun
Tout pour l'oseille
as Prune
The Grand Restaurant III
as The nymphomaniac's friend
The Story of a Boy Who Wanted to Be Kissed
as Girl at party offering food
The Vanishing Point
as Lucie Audibert
Thanks to my Friends
as Stéphane Brunge
Flashback
as Olympe de Gouges
Des mains en or
as Rose
Max
as Nina
À votre bon cœur, mesdames
as Lolita
Arrête ton cinéma !
as Sybille
Spiderwebhouse
as Sabine
I Love You Coiffure
as Geneviève (segment "L'Addition")
Gad Elmaleh - Le Big Show
as Self
Those Were the Days
as Sylvie
Papa Was Not a Rolling Stone
as Nadiège
La vie est à nous !
as Louise Delhomme
Karnaval
as Béa
Legacy
as Patricia
Sisters
as Sybille adulte
96 heures
as Marion Reynaud
Fan Club
as Anna
Marie's Song
as Marie
Maman, ne me laisse pas m'endormir
as Sophie
Everyman's Feast
as Sophie
The Rebel, Louise Michel
as Louise Michel
Victoire
as Victoire
A Song For Mama
as Sylvie
Where Souls Go
as Stéphanie
Fire in Paradise
as Esther
Ceux qui dansent sur la tête
as Catherine
Cause toujours !
as Léa
L'Amour, la Mort, les Fringues
A Moment of Happiness
as L'institutrice
Stolen Tangos
as Alice / Paula
Deux gouttes d'eau
as Valérie Laforge
Mörderische Stille
as Elena
The Night Clerk
as Sylvie Poncet
Julies Geist
as Julia
Quand sort la recluse
as le lieutenant Froissy
Dead Man's Memories
as Das Mädchen
Roxana's Hands
as Roxana Orlac
The Idiot
as Darya Alexeyevna
Making of Tomorrow We Move
as Self / Charlotte
The Dark Room
as Azalaïs
Sentiments provisoires
as Hélène
Kings for a Day
as Val
In Heaven
as Valeska
Tout un poème
Women or Children First
as Virginie
Can't Say No
as Adèle
My Name Is Hmmm...
as La mère de Céline
Les acteurs anonymes
as Self (uncredited)
Arthur Honegger - Jeanne D'Arc Au Bucher
as Jeanne d'Arc
Jíkuri. Journey to the Land of the Tarahumara
as Mathilde
Defiant Souls
as Enriqueta Faber / Enrique Faber
Eat, for This Is My Body
as Madame
Tout le monde savait
as Valérie Bacot
The Two of Them
as Sandrine
A Happy Man
as Catherine
Words in Blue
as Clara
Bad Connection
as Laurence
L'Heureux Stratagème
as La Comtesse
Proust and Signs: On Chantal Akerman's "La Captive"
as archive image
Éternelles
as Nathalie