Sylvie Testud
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Jan 17, 1971 (age 55)
- Place of birth
- Lyon, Rhône, France
- Credits
- 136
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.
Known for
Suspiria
2018Movie
Miss Griffith
La Vie en Rose
2007Movie
Simone 'Mômone' Berteaut
The Round Up
2010Movie
Bella Zygler
The Visitors: Bastille Day
2016Movie
Charlotte de Robespierre
Tamara
2016Movie
Amandine
Lucky Luke
2009Movie
Calamity Jane
Filmography
Jíkuri. Journey to the Land of the Tarahumara
2026Movie
Mathilde
Cocorico 2
2026Movie
Nicole Martin
LOL 2.0: Anne’s Golden Hour
2026Movie
Sylvie
Where Souls Go
2025Movie
Stéphanie
Proust and Signs: On Chantal Akerman's "La Captive"
2025Movie
archive image
Sur la dalle
2024TV
Froissy
The Two of Them
2024Movie
Sandrine
Knok
2024TV
Blanche
Cocorico
2024Movie
Nicole Martin
Marinette
2023Movie
Régine Pierre, Saint-Memmie coach
Des mains en or
2023Movie
Rose
A Case for Kin
2023TV
Capitaine Caroline Flament
The Grand Restaurant IV
2022Movie
The Unexpected Getaway
2022TV
Self
Club Première
2022TV
Self - Guest
Maman, ne me laisse pas m'endormir
2022Movie
Sophie
Simone: Woman of the Century
2022Movie
Marceline Rozenberg (1968 - 1979)
Le Figaro La Nuit
2022TV
Tout le monde savait
2022Movie
Valérie Bacot
Champagne !
2022Movie
Joanna
What Pauline Is Not Telling You
2022TV
major de gendarmerie Marie Hermann
Flashback
2021Movie
Olympe de Gouges
L'Heureux Stratagème
2021Movie
La Comtesse
Un monde, un regard
2021TV
Runaway
2021TV
Isabelle
The Grand Restaurant III
2021Movie
The nymphomaniac's friend
I Love You Coiffure
2020Movie
Geneviève (segment "L'Addition")
Fear by the Lake
2020TV
Alice Wagner
Meet the Malawas
2019Movie
Nathalie Dulac
Kemps
2019TV
Self
Disclaimer
2019Movie
Maïté
Eden
2019TV
Hélène
Quand sort la recluse
2019Movie
le lieutenant Froissy
Quand sort la recluse
2019TV
le lieutenant Froissy
Wide Load
2019Movie
Jennifer
Defiant Souls
2019Movie
Enriqueta Faber / Enrique Faber
Deutsch-Les-Landes
2018TV
Odile
Suspiria
2018Movie
Miss Griffith
Deux gouttes d'eau
2018Movie
Valérie Laforge
Fan Club
2018Movie
Anna
A New Girl in Paris!
2018Movie
Amandine
Kings for a Day
2018Movie
Val
Final Portrait
2017Movie
Annette Giacometti
Wedding Unplanned
2017Movie
Clarisse
Maximilian and Marie De Bourgogne
2017TV
Charlotte de Savoye
Mörderische Stille
2017Movie
Elena
Tamara
2016Movie
Amandine
The Exchange Student
2016Movie
Eloïse
The Visitors: Bastille Day
2016Movie
Charlotte de Robespierre
Arrête ton cinéma !
2016Movie
Sybille
Capitaine Marleau
2015TV
Salomé Revel
Too Close to the Sun
2015Movie
Sophie Picard
Gad Elmaleh - Le Big Show
2015Movie
Self
Thanks to my Friends
2015Movie
Stéphane Brunge
Spiderwebhouse
2015Movie
Sabine
Two Women
2014Movie
Elisaveta Bogdanovna
Ceux qui dansent sur la tête
2014Movie
Catherine
Papa Was Not a Rolling Stone
2014Movie
Nadiège
French Women
2014Movie
Sam
24 Days
2014Movie
Brigitte Farell
96 heures
2014Movie
Marion Reynaud
À votre bon cœur, mesdames
2013Movie
Lolita
My Name Is Hmmm...
2013Movie
La mère de Céline
Les Déferlantes
2013Movie
Louise
For a Woman
2013Movie
Anne
A Song For Mama
2013Movie
Sylvie
Roxana's Hands
2013Movie
Roxana Orlac
Max
2013Movie
Nina
The Unexpected Getaway
2012TV
Self
28 minutes
2012TV
Self
Rebellion
2011Movie
Chantal Legorjus
The Night Clerk
2011Movie
Sylvie Poncet
L'Amour, la Mort, les Fringues
2011Movie
The Rebel, Louise Michel
2010Movie
Louise Michel
Mumu
2010Movie
Mumu
The Round Up
2010Movie
Bella Zygler
Sentiments provisoires
2010Movie
Hélène
Sisters
2009Movie
Sybille adulte
Lucky Luke
2009Movie
Calamity Jane
Lourdes
2009Movie
Christine
C à vous
2009TV
Self, Self - Guest
Can't Say No
2009Movie
Adèle
Vengeance
2009Movie
Irene Costello
A Happy Man
2009Movie
Catherine
Panique dans l'oreillette
2008TV
Self
The Idiot
2008Movie
Darya Alexeyevna
Sagan
2008Movie
Françoise Quoirez dite Sagan
The Vanishing Point
2007Movie
Lucie Audibert
Arthur Honegger - Jeanne D'Arc Au Bucher
2007Movie
Jeanne d'Arc
La France
2007Movie
Camille
Eat, for This Is My Body
2007Movie
Madame
La Vie en Rose
2007Movie
Simone 'Mômone' Berteaut
Legacy
2006Movie
Patricia
On n'est pas couché
2006TV
Self - Guest
La vie est à nous !
2005Movie
Louise Delhomme
Words in Blue
2005Movie
Clara
Rendez-vous in an Unknown Land
2004TV
Self
Victoire
2004Movie
Victoire
Cause toujours !
2004Movie
Léa
Tout pour l'oseille
2004Movie
Prune
Tomorrow We Move
2004Movie
Charlotte
Making of Tomorrow We Move
2004Movie
Self / Charlotte
Labyrinth
2003Movie
Claude
Dead Man's Memories
2003Movie
Das Mädchen
Only Girls
2003Movie
Tina
Fear and Trembling
2003Movie
Amélie
A Loving Father
2002Movie
Virginia
Life Kills Me
2002Movie
Myriam
A Day in the Life of French Cinema
2002Movie
Self
Stolen Tangos
2002Movie
Alice / Paula
Women or Children First
2002Movie
Virginie
A Moment of Happiness
2002Movie
L'institutrice
Everyman's Feast
2002Movie
Sophie
Les acteurs anonymes
2001Movie
Self (uncredited)
I’m Going Home
2001Movie
Ariel
The Château
2001Movie
Isabelle
Julies Geist
2001Movie
Julia
The Dark Room
2000Movie
Azalaïs
Murderous Maids
2000Movie
Christine Papin
The Captive
2000Movie
Ariane
Scénarios sur la drogue
2000Movie
Segment "Lucie"
Bad Connection
2000Movie
Laurence
In Heaven
1999Movie
Valeska
Annaluise & Anton
1999Movie
Laurence
Karnaval
1999Movie
Béa
Marée haute
1999Movie
The Misadventures of Margaret
1998Movie
Young Nun
Sentimental Education
1998Movie
Julia
Fire in Paradise
1997Movie
Esther
Beyond Silence
1996Movie
Lara
Those Were the Days
1995Movie
Sylvie
Éternelles
1994Movie
Nathalie
The Story of a Boy Who Wanted to Be Kissed
1994Movie
Girl at party offering food
Marie's Song
1994Movie
Marie
German Film Award
1951TV
Self
Tout un poème
Movie