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

20194.5

Cocorico 2

20265.2

Vengeance

20096.6

LOL 2.0: Anne’s Golden Hour

20266.0

In Heaven

19999.0

Lucky Luke

20094.5

Too Close to the Sun

20155.7

Cocorico

20245.6

Wide Load

20194.2

À votre bon cœur, mesdames

20135.0

Final Portrait

20176.0

Tamara

20166.4

Wedding Unplanned

20176.1

Legacy

20066.6

Arrête ton cinéma !

20164.6

Mumu

20105.8

Everyman's Feast

20024.0

Life Kills Me

20025.3

24 Days

20146.6

Stolen Tangos

20026.0

The Captive

20005.7

French Women

20145.7

Simone: Woman of the Century

20227.9

Kings for a Day

20185.7

Labyrinth

20036.6

96 heures

20145.4

Where Souls Go

20254.5

Annaluise & Anton

19997.2

Jíkuri. Journey to the Land of the Tarahumara

20247.3

For a Woman

20135.9

Bad Connection

20006.3

Fear and Trembling

20036.5

The Exchange Student

20165.4

Marinette

20236.5

Gad Elmaleh - Le Big Show

20155.7

The Misadventures of Margaret

19985.1

Victoire

20043.0

Sagan

20086.2

Fire in Paradise

19975.3

I’m Going Home

20016.8

A New Girl in Paris!

20186.4

Murderous Maids

20006.2

L'Heureux Stratagème

2021

Scénarios sur la drogue

20006.0

Karnaval

19996.2

Quand sort la recluse

20195.9

Tout pour l'oseille

20044.9

Ceux qui dansent sur la tête

20145.3

The Grand Restaurant IV

20228.0

Spiderwebhouse

20155.9

Two Women

20146.1

A Day in the Life of French Cinema

20027.0

My Name Is Hmmm...

20135.5

Max

20135.8

Fan Club

2018

Lourdes

20096.6

The Château

20015.0

The Dark Room

20004.6

Rebellion

20116.7

Julies Geist

200110.0

L'Amour, la Mort, les Fringues

20117.0

Tomorrow We Move

20045.9

The Two of Them

20246.0

Sentiments provisoires

20106.0

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

2025

Eat, for This Is My Body

20073.3

A Song For Mama

20134.9

I Love You Coiffure

20203.8

Flashback

20215.9

Beyond Silence

19966.9

Papa Was Not a Rolling Stone

20145.6

Champagne !

20225.2

Defiant Souls

20196.1

Des mains en or

20235.5

La France

20076.4

Tout un poème

2026

The Grand Restaurant III

20215.3

Words in Blue

20056.6

Thanks to my Friends

20155.1

The Story of a Boy Who Wanted to Be Kissed

19943.5

Marie's Song

19945.3

Disclaimer

20194.7

Maman, ne me laisse pas m'endormir

20227.4

Cause toujours !

20045.0

The Rebel, Louise Michel

20105.9

Women or Children First

20026.0

Roxana's Hands

20134.5

Sisters

20095.2

Only Girls

20036.3

La vie est à nous !

20055.7

Making of Tomorrow We Move

2004

The Night Clerk

20115.8

A Moment of Happiness

20025.3

A Loving Father

20025.6

The Vanishing Point

20075.6

Sentimental Education

19987.0

Mörderische Stille

20175.5

The Idiot

20086.5

Can't Say No

2009

A Happy Man

20094.6

Those Were the Days

19955.8

Les Déferlantes

20135.1

Les acteurs anonymes

20016.5

Arthur Honegger - Jeanne D'Arc Au Bucher

2007

Tout le monde savait

2022

Deux gouttes d'eau

20186.2

Dead Man's Memories

20034.9

Marée haute

19998.0

Éternelles

19949.0