Sylvie Testud

Acting · 0.9 popularity

Age

Movies

113

Born: January 17, 1971
From: Lyon, Rhône, France

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.

Works

113 films

Suspiria

20186.9

La Vie en Rose

20077.4

The Visitors: Bastille Day

20164.2

The Round Up

20107.5

Meet the Malawas

20194.4

Cocorico 2

20265.4

LOL 2.0: Anne’s Golden Hour

20266.1

Lucky Luke

20094.5

Vengeance

20096.6

Legacy

20066.6

Wide Load

20194.2

Too Close to the Sun

20155.7

Mumu

20105.8

À votre bon cœur, mesdames

20135.0

Stolen Tangos

20026.0

Cocorico

20245.6

Wedding Unplanned

20176.1

Arrête ton cinéma !

20164.6

Final Portrait

20176.0

Tamara

20166.4

In Heaven

19999.0

24 Days

20146.6

Simone: Woman of the Century

20227.9

Everyman's Feast

20024.0

The Captive

20005.7

Labyrinth

20036.6

Karnaval

19996.2

Fear and Trembling

20036.5

French Women

20145.7

For a Woman

20135.9

Life Kills Me

20025.3

96 heures

20145.4

Jíkuri. Journey to the Land of the Tarahumara

20247.3

The Misadventures of Margaret

19985.1

Bad Connection

20006.3

The Exchange Student

20165.4

Sagan

20086.2

Scénarios sur la drogue

20006.0

A New Girl in Paris!

20186.4

Victoire

20043.0

Gad Elmaleh - Le Big Show

20155.7

Marinette

20236.5

Kings for a Day

20185.7

Quand sort la recluse

20195.9

Max

20135.8

Fan Club

2018

I’m Going Home

20016.8

Murderous Maids

20006.2

Fire in Paradise

19975.3

Where Souls Go

20254.5

Sentiments provisoires

20106.0

Annaluise & Anton

19997.2

The Grand Restaurant IV

20228.0

The Two of Them

20246.0

Flashback

20215.9

Julies Geist

200110.0

Lourdes

20096.6

Tout pour l'oseille

20044.9

My Name Is Hmmm...

20135.5

L'Heureux Stratagème

2021

Rebellion

20116.7

L'Amour, la Mort, les Fringues

20117.0

Beyond Silence

19966.9

Ceux qui dansent sur la tête

20145.3

The Story of a Boy Who Wanted to Be Kissed

19943.5

Eat, for This Is My Body

20073.3

A Day in the Life of French Cinema

20027.0

Spiderwebhouse

20155.9

Words in Blue

20056.6

The Dark Room

20004.6

Two Women

20146.1

The Château

20015.0

Des mains en or

20235.5

I Love You Coiffure

20203.8

Tomorrow We Move

20045.9

The Grand Restaurant III

20215.3

Papa Was Not a Rolling Stone

20145.6

The Rebel, Louise Michel

20105.9

Champagne !

20225.2

Marie's Song

19945.3

La France

20076.4

La vie est à nous !

20055.7

Disclaimer

20194.7

Thanks to my Friends

20155.1

Sisters

20095.2

Women or Children First

20026.0

A Moment of Happiness

20025.3

Tout un poème

2026

A Song For Mama

20134.9

Cause toujours !

20045.0

Can't Say No

2009

The Vanishing Point

20075.6

The Night Clerk

20115.8

A Loving Father

20025.6

Only Girls

20036.3

Deux gouttes d'eau

20186.2

Defiant Souls

20196.1

Les Déferlantes

20135.1

Sentimental Education

19987.0

Proust and Signs: On Chantal Akerman's "La Captive"

2025

A Happy Man

20094.6

Les acteurs anonymes

20016.5

The Idiot

20086.5

Mörderische Stille

20175.5

Making of Tomorrow We Move

2004

Maman, ne me laisse pas m'endormir

20227.4

Roxana's Hands

20134.5

Dead Man's Memories

20034.9

Those Were the Days

19955.8

Arthur Honegger - Jeanne D'Arc Au Bucher

2007

Éternelles

19949.0

Tout le monde savait

2022

Marée haute

19998.0