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 LEffrontée. 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.
Anna
Film 2018
Lara
Film 1996
Simone "Mômone" Berteaut
Film 2007
Laurence
Film 1999
Segment "Lucie"
Film 2000
Olympe de Gouges
Film 2021
Amélie
Film 2003
Claude
Film 2003
La Comtesse
Film 2021
Catherine
Film 2009
Calamity Jane
Film 2009
Christine
Film 2009
Françoise Quoirez dite Sagan
Film 2008
Film 1999
Lucie Audibert
Film 2007
Sybille adulte
Film 2009
Christine Papin
Film 2000
Mumu
Film 2010
Ariane
Film 2000
L'institutrice
Film 2002
Myriam
Film 2002
Prune
Film 2004
Sylvie Poncet
Film 2011
Camille
Film 2007
Chantal Legorjus
Film 2011
Louise Delhomme
Film 2005
Léa
Film 2004
Virginie
Film 2002
Charlotte
Film 2004
Louise Michel
Film 2010
Madame
Film 2007
Azalaïs
Film 2000
Clara
Film 2005
Béa
Film 1999
Régine Pierre, Saint-Memmie coach
Film 2023
Patricia
Film 2006
Sylvie
Film 2013
Das Mädchen
Film 2003
Alice / Paula
Film 2002
Nicole Martin
Film 2024
Anne
Film 2013
Louise
Film 2013
La mère de Céline
Film 2013
Roxana Orlac
Film 2013
Esther
Film 1997
Marion Reynaud
Film 2014
Rose
Film 2023
Film
Sophie
Film 2022
Sam
Film 2014
Sophie
Film 2002
Nadiège
Film 2014
Catherine
Film 2014
Darya Alexeyevna
Film 2008
Elisaveta Bogdanovna
Film 2014
Sabine
Film 2015
Sandrine
Film
Girl at party offering food
Film 1994
Brigitte Farell
Film 2014
Film 2022
Self (uncredited)
Film 2001
Film 2024
Sybille
Film 2016
Sophie Picard
Film 2015
Julia
Film 2001
Eloïse
Film 2016
Amandine
Film 2016
Self / Charlotte
Film 2004
Stéphane Brunge
Film 2015
Film 2009
Elena
Film 2017
Marie
Film 1994
Clarisse
Film 2017
Val
Film 2018
Amandine
Film 2018
Laurence
Film 2000
Film 2011
Self
Film 2015
Maïté
Film 2019
Valérie Laforge
Film 2018
Jeanne d'Arc
Film 2007
Jennifer
Film 2019
Enriqueta Faber / Enrique Faber
Film 2019
le lieutenant Froissy
Film 2019
Lolita
Film 2013
Nathalie Dulac
Film 2019
Hélène
Film 2010
Nathalie
Film 1994
Film 1999
Julia
Film 1998
Film 1995
Marceline Rozenberg (1968 - 1979)
Film 2022
Film
Self
Film 2002
Self
Tv 2009
Isabelle
Tv 2021
Self
Tv 2012
major de gendarmerie Marie Hermann
Tv 2022
Self
Tv 2012
Charlotte de Savoye
Tv 2017
Self
Tv 2019
Odile
Tv 2018
Capitaine Caroline Flament
Tv 2023
Self
Tv 1951
Hélène
Tv 2019
Self - Guest
Tv 2022
Blanche
Tv 2024
Salomé Revel
Tv 2015
Alice Wagner
Tv 2020
Self
Tv 2008
Self
Tv 2004
Froissy
Tv 2024