credits of
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.
Release Date | Title | Character Name | Rating | Your Lists |
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February 7th, 2024 | Cocorico | Nicole Martin | 5.6 | |
June 7th, 2023 | Marinette | Régine Pierre, Saint-Memmie coach | 6.5 | |
June 7th, 2023 | Des mains en or | Rose | 5.4 | |
October 18th, 2022 | Maman, ne me laisse pas m'endormir | Sophie | 7.4 | |
June 8th, 2022 | Champagne ! | Joanna | 5.2 | |
November 11th, 2021 | Flashback | Olympe de Gouges | 5.9 | |
October 15th, 2021 | L'Heureux Stratagème | La Comtesse | TBD | |
September 19th, 2018 | Fan Club | Anna | TBD | |
April 23rd, 2014 | 96 heures | Marion Reynaud | 5.4 | |
October 7th, 2013 | My Name Is Hmmm... | La mère de Céline | 5.5 | |
September 12th, 2013 | Les Déferlantes | Louise | 5.1 | |
July 3rd, 2013 | For a Woman | Anne | 5.9 | |
March 27th, 2013 | A Song For Mama | Sylvie | 4.9 | |
March 20th, 2013 | Roxana's Hands | Roxana Orlac | 4.5 | |
January 18th, 2013 | Max | Nina | 5.8 | |
November 16th, 2011 | Rebellion | Chantal Legorjus | 6.7 | |
March 1st, 2011 | The Night Clerk | Sylvie Poncet | 5.7 | |
April 7th, 2010 | The Rebel, Louise Michel | Louise Michel | 5.9 | |
March 24th, 2010 | Mumu | Mumu | 5.8 | |
March 10th, 2010 | The Round Up | Bella Zygler | 7.5 | |
December 16th, 2009 | Sisters | Sybille adulte | 5.2 | |
October 21st, 2009 | Lucky Luke | Calamity Jane | 4.5 | |
September 11th, 2009 | Lourdes | Christine | 6.6 | |
May 20th, 2009 | Vengeance | Irene Costello | 6.6 | |
February 27th, 2009 | A Happy Man | Catherine | 4.6 | |
June 11th, 2008 | Sagan | Françoise Quoirez dite Sagan | 6.2 | |
November 28th, 2007 | The Vanishing Point | Lucie Audibert | 5.7 | |
September 21st, 2007 | La France | Camille | 6.4 | |
September 10th, 2007 | Eat, for This Is My Body | Madame | 3.3 | |
February 14th, 2007 | La Vie en Rose | Simone 'Mômone' Berteaut | 7.4 | |
September 20th, 2006 | Legacy | Patricia | 6.6 | |
December 7th, 2005 | La vie est à nous ! | Louise Delhomme | 5.7 | |
March 22nd, 2005 | Words in Blue | Clara | 6.6 | |
December 22nd, 2004 | Victoire | Victoire | 3 | |
July 28th, 2004 | Cause toujours ! | Léa | 5 | |
May 12th, 2004 | Tout pour l'oseille | Prune | 4.9 | |
March 3rd, 2004 | Tomorrow We Move | Charlotte | 5.9 | |
September 9th, 2003 | Labyrinth | Claude | 6.6 | |
July 6th, 2003 | Dead Man's Memories | Das Mädchen | 4.9 | |
June 11th, 2003 | Only Girls | Tina | 6.3 | |
March 12th, 2003 | Fear and Trembling | Amélie | 6.4 | |
November 13th, 2002 | A Loving Father | Virginia | 5.6 | |
May 26th, 2002 | Life Kills Me | Myriam | 5.3 | |
April 18th, 2002 | Stolen Tangos | Alice / Paula | 6 | |
March 20th, 2002 | Women or Children First | Virginie | 6 | |
March 6th, 2002 | A Moment of Happiness | L'institutrice | 5.3 | |
January 16th, 2001 | The Château | Isabelle | 5 | |
November 29th, 2000 | The Dark Room | Azalaïs | 4.6 | |
November 22nd, 2000 | Murderous Maids | Christine Papin | 6.2 | |
September 27th, 2000 | The Captive | Ariane | 5.7 | |
May 16th, 2000 | Scénarios sur la drogue | Segment "Lucie" | 6 | |
March 11th, 1999 | Annaluise & Anton | Laurence | 7.2 | |
March 3rd, 1999 | Karnaval | Béa | 6.2 | |
January 30th, 1999 | Marée haute | TBD | 8 | |
December 10th, 1997 | Fire in Paradise | Esther | 5.3 | |
December 18th, 1996 | Beyond Silence | Lara | 6.9 | |
TBD | Tout un poème | TBD | TBD | |
April 8th, 2026 | Cocorico 2 | Nicole Martin | 5.3 | |
February 11th, 2026 | LOL 2.0: Anne’s Golden Hour | Sylvie | 6.3 | |
November 14th, 2025 | Where Souls Go | Stéphanie | 2.7 | |
October 9th, 2025 | Proust and Signs: On Chantal Akerman's "La Captive" | archive image | TBD | |
October 12th, 2024 | The Two of Them | Sandrine | 6 | |
June 14th, 2024 | Jíkuri. Journey to the Land of the Tarahumara | Mathilde | 7.3 | |
December 15th, 2022 | The Grand Restaurant IV | TBD | 8 | |
October 12th, 2022 | Simone: Woman of the Century | Marceline Rozenberg (1968 - 1979) | 7.9 | |
October 4th, 2022 | Tout le monde savait | Valérie Bacot | TBD | |
February 3rd, 2021 | The Grand Restaurant III | The nymphomaniac's friend | 5.3 | |
December 21st, 2020 | I Love You Coiffure | Geneviève (segment "L'Addition") | 3.8 | |
December 25th, 2019 | Meet the Malawas | Nathalie Dulac | 4.4 | |
November 27th, 2019 | Disclaimer | Maïté | 4.7 | |
April 10th, 2019 | Quand sort la recluse | le lieutenant Froissy | 5.9 | |
March 13th, 2019 | Wide Load | Jennifer | 4.2 | |
March 7th, 2019 | Defiant Souls | Enriqueta Faber / Enrique Faber | 6.1 | |
October 26th, 2018 | Suspiria | Miss Griffith | 6.9 | |
October 19th, 2018 | Deux gouttes d'eau | Valérie Laforge | 6.1 | |
July 4th, 2018 | A New Girl in Paris! | Amandine | 6.4 | |
May 2nd, 2018 | Kings for a Day | Val | 5.6 | |
August 3rd, 2017 | Final Portrait | Annette Giacometti | 6 | |
April 26th, 2017 | Wedding Unplanned | Clarisse | 6.1 | |
January 9th, 2017 | Mörderische Stille | Elena | 5.5 | |
October 26th, 2016 | Tamara | Amandine | 6.3 | |
August 24th, 2016 | The Exchange Student | Eloïse | 5.4 | |
March 23rd, 2016 | The Visitors: Bastille Day | Charlotte de Robespierre | 4.2 | |
January 13th, 2016 | Arrête ton cinéma ! | Sybille | 4.6 | |
September 9th, 2015 | Too Close to the Sun | Sophie Picard | 5.7 | |
May 16th, 2015 | Gad Elmaleh - Le Big Show | Self | 5.8 | |
May 6th, 2015 | Thanks to my Friends | Stéphane Brunge | 5 | |
February 8th, 2015 | Spiderwebhouse | Sabine | 5.9 | |
November 23rd, 2014 | Two Women | Elisaveta Bogdanovna | 6.1 | |
October 24th, 2014 | Ceux qui dansent sur la tête | Catherine | 5.3 | |
October 8th, 2014 | Papa Was Not a Rolling Stone | Nadiège | 5.6 | |
June 4th, 2014 | French Women | Sam | 5.7 | |
April 30th, 2014 | 24 Days | Brigitte Farell | 6.6 | |
December 4th, 2013 | À votre bon cœur, mesdames | Lolita | 5 | |
February 26th, 2011 | L'Amour, la Mort, les Fringues | TBD | 7 | |
January 1st, 2010 | Sentiments provisoires | Hélène | 6 | |
July 15th, 2009 | Can't Say No | Adèle | TBD | |
August 7th, 2008 | The Idiot | Darya Alexeyevna | 6.5 | |
October 30th, 2007 | Arthur Honegger - Jeanne D'Arc Au Bucher | Jeanne d'Arc | TBD | |
January 1st, 2004 | Making of Tomorrow We Move | Self / Charlotte | TBD | |
May 20th, 2002 | A Day in the Life of French Cinema | Self | 7 | |
January 25th, 2002 | Everyman's Feast | Sophie | 4 | |
October 10th, 2001 | Les acteurs anonymes | Self (uncredited) | 6.5 | |
May 13th, 2001 | I’m Going Home | Ariel | 6.8 | |
January 1st, 2001 | Julies Geist | Julia | 10 | |
May 12th, 2000 | Bad Connection | Laurence | 6.3 | |
September 16th, 1999 | In Heaven | Valeska | 9 | |
December 23rd, 1998 | The Misadventures of Margaret | Young Nun | 5.1 | |
January 1st, 1998 | Sentimental Education | Julia | 7 | |
September 13th, 1995 | Those Were the Days | Sylvie | 5.9 | |
May 1st, 1994 | Éternelles | Nathalie | 9 | |
March 23rd, 1994 | The Story of a Boy Who Wanted to Be Kissed | Girl at party offering food | 3.5 | |
January 8th, 1994 | Marie's Song | Marie | 5.3 |