Sylvie Testud
Personal Info
Known For Actor
Gender Female
Birthday 1971-01-17 (53 years old)
Place of Birth Lyon, Rhône, France
Also Known As Sylvie Voyer, Sylvie Voyet, Сільві Тестю
Sylvie Testud
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.
Known For
Actor
as Sandrine
as Nicole Martin
as Blanche
as Régine Pierre, coach Saint-Memmie
as Rose
as Capitaine Caroline Flament
as Sophie
as Marceline Rozenberg (1968 - 1979)
as Joanna
as Self - Guest
as major de gendarmerie Marie Hermann
as Olympe de Gouges
as La Comtesse
as The nymphomaniac's friend
as Isabelle
as Geneviève (segment "L'Addition")
as Alice Wagner
as Nathalie Dulac
as Maïté
as le lieutenant Froissy
as Jennifer
as Enriqueta Faber / Enrique Faber
as Self
as Hélène
as Miss Griffith
as Valérie Laforge
as Anna
as Amandine
as Val
as Odile
as Annette Giacometti
as Clarisse
as Elena
as Charlotte de Savoye
as Amandine
as Eloïse
as Charlotte de Robespierre
as Sybille
as Sophie Picard
as Stéphane Brunge
as Sabine
as Self
as Salomé Revel
as Elisaveta Bogdanovna
as Catherine
as Nadiège
as Sam
as Brigitte Farell
as Marion Reynaud
as Lolita
as La mère de Céline
as Louise
as Anne
as Sylvie
as Roxana Orlac
as Nina
as Self
as Self
as Chantal Legorjus
as Sylvie Poncet
as Louise Michel
as Mumu
as Bella Zygler
as Hélène
as Sybille adulte
as Calamity Jane
as Christine
as Irene Costello
as Catherine
as Self
as Darya Alexeyevna
as Françoise Quoirez dite Sagan
as Self
as Lucie Audibert
as Jeanne d'Arc
as Camille
as Madame
as Simone "Mômone" Berteaut
as Patricia
as Louise Delhomme
as Clara
as Victoire
as Léa
as Prune
as Charlotte
as Self / Charlotte
as Self
as Claude
as Das Mädchen
as Tina
as Amélie
as Virginia
as Myriam
as Alice / Paula
as Virginie
as L'institutrice
as Sophie
as Self (uncredited)
as Ariel
as Isabelle
as Julia
as Azalaïs
as Christine Papin
as Ariane
as Laurence
as Segment "Lucie"
as Laurence
as Béa
as Young Nun
as Julia
as Esther
as Lara
as Nathalie
as Girl at party offering food
as Marie
as Self
Writer
as Screenplay
as Novel
as Screenplay
as Writer
as Novel
Director
as Director
as Director
as Director
Crew
as Thanks