Sylvie Testud
Acting
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.
TV Shows(21)
Sur la dalle
Froissy
2024
Knok
Blanche
2024
A Case for Kin
Capitaine Caroline Flament
2023
The Unexpected Getaway
Self
2022
Club Première
Self - Guest
2022
What Pauline Is Not Telling You
major de gendarmerie Marie Hermann
2022
Un monde, un regard
2021
Runaway
Isabelle
2021
Fear by the Lake
Alice Wagner
2020
Kemps
Self
2019
Eden
Hélène
2019
Deutsch-Les-Landes
Odile
2018
Maximilian and Marie De Bourgogne
Charlotte de Savoye
2017
Capitaine Marleau
Salomé Revel
2015
The Unexpected Getaway
Self
2012
28 minutes
Self
2012
C à vous
Self
2009
Panique dans l'oreillette
Self
2008
On n'est pas couché
Self - Guest
2006
Rendez-vous in an Unknown Land
Self
2004
German Film Award
Self
1951
Movies(113)
Cocorico 2
Nicole Martin
2026
LOL 2.0: Anne’s Golden Hour
Sylvie
2026
Where Souls Go
Stéphanie
2025
Proust and Signs: On Chantal Akerman's "La Captive"
archive image
2025
The Two of Them
Sandrine
2024
Jíkuri. Journey to the Land of the Tarahumara
Mathilde
2024
Cocorico
Nicole Martin
2024
Marinette
Régine Pierre, Saint-Memmie coach
2023
Des mains en or
Rose
2023
The Grand Restaurant IV
2022
Maman, ne me laisse pas m'endormir
Sophie
2022
Simone: Woman of the Century
Marceline Rozenberg (1968 - 1979)
2022
Tout le monde savait
Valérie Bacot
2022
Champagne !
Joanna
2022
Flashback
Olympe de Gouges
2021
L'Heureux Stratagème
La Comtesse
2021
The Grand Restaurant III
The nymphomaniac's friend
2021
I Love You Coiffure
Geneviève (segment "L'Addition")
2020
Meet the Malawas
Nathalie Dulac
2019
Disclaimer
Maïté
2019
Quand sort la recluse
le lieutenant Froissy
2019
Wide Load
Jennifer
2019
Defiant Souls
Enriqueta Faber / Enrique Faber
2019
Suspiria
Miss Griffith
2018
Deux gouttes d'eau
Valérie Laforge
2018
Fan Club
Anna
2018
A New Girl in Paris!
Amandine
2018
Kings for a Day
Val
2018
Final Portrait
Annette Giacometti
2017
Wedding Unplanned
Clarisse
2017
Mörderische Stille
Elena
2017
Tamara
Amandine
2016
The Exchange Student
Eloïse
2016
The Visitors: Bastille Day
Charlotte de Robespierre
2016
Arrête ton cinéma !
Sybille
2016
Too Close to the Sun
Sophie Picard
2015
Gad Elmaleh - Le Big Show
Self
2015
Thanks to my Friends
Stéphane Brunge
2015
Spiderwebhouse
Sabine
2015
Two Women
Elisaveta Bogdanovna
2014
Ceux qui dansent sur la tête
Catherine
2014
Papa Was Not a Rolling Stone
Nadiège
2014
French Women
Sam
2014
24 Days
Brigitte Farell
2014
96 heures
Marion Reynaud
2014
À votre bon cœur, mesdames
Lolita
2013
My Name Is Hmmm...
La mère de Céline
2013
Les Déferlantes
Louise
2013
For a Woman
Anne
2013
A Song For Mama
Sylvie
2013
Roxana's Hands
Roxana Orlac
2013
Max
Nina
2013
Rebellion
Chantal Legorjus
2011
The Night Clerk
Sylvie Poncet
2011
L'Amour, la Mort, les Fringues
2011
The Rebel, Louise Michel
Louise Michel
2010
Mumu
Mumu
2010
The Round Up
Bella Zygler
2010
Sentiments provisoires
Hélène
2010
Sisters
Sybille adulte
2009
Lucky Luke
Calamity Jane
2009
Lourdes
Christine
2009
Can't Say No
Adèle
2009
Vengeance
Irene Costello
2009
A Happy Man
Catherine
2009
The Idiot
Darya Alexeyevna
2008
Sagan
Françoise Quoirez dite Sagan
2008
The Vanishing Point
Lucie Audibert
2007
Arthur Honegger - Jeanne D'Arc Au Bucher
Jeanne d'Arc
2007
La France
Camille
2007
Eat, for This Is My Body
Madame
2007
La Vie en Rose
Simone 'Mômone' Berteaut
2007
Legacy
Patricia
2006
La vie est à nous !
Louise Delhomme
2005
Words in Blue
Clara
2005
Victoire
Victoire
2004
Cause toujours !
Léa
2004
Tout pour l'oseille
Prune
2004
Tomorrow We Move
Charlotte
2004
Making of Tomorrow We Move
Self / Charlotte
2004
Labyrinth
Claude
2003
Dead Man's Memories
Das Mädchen
2003
Only Girls
Tina
2003
Fear and Trembling
Amélie
2003
A Loving Father
Virginia
2002
Life Kills Me
Myriam
2002
A Day in the Life of French Cinema
Self
2002
Stolen Tangos
Alice / Paula
2002
Women or Children First
Virginie
2002
A Moment of Happiness
L'institutrice
2002
Everyman's Feast
Sophie
2002
Les acteurs anonymes
Self (uncredited)
2001
I’m Going Home
Ariel
2001
The Château
Isabelle
2001
Julies Geist
Julia
2001
The Dark Room
Azalaïs
2000
Murderous Maids
Christine Papin
2000
The Captive
Ariane
2000
Scénarios sur la drogue
Segment "Lucie"
2000
Bad Connection
Laurence
2000
In Heaven
Valeska
1999
Annaluise & Anton
Laurence
1999
Karnaval
Béa
1999
Marée haute
1999
The Misadventures of Margaret
Young Nun
1998
Sentimental Education
Julia
1998
Fire in Paradise
Esther
1997
Beyond Silence
Lara
1996
Those Were the Days
Sylvie
1995
Éternelles
Nathalie
1994
The Story of a Boy Who Wanted to Be Kissed
Girl at party offering food
1994
Marie's Song
Marie
1994
Tout un poème