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Sylvie Testud
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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.
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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 PrisonniÚre 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.
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BODY OF WORK
Sylvie Testud's Filmography
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JĂkuri. Journey to the Land of the Tarahumara
as Mathilde
Cocorico 2
as Nicole Martin
LOL 2.0: Anneâs Golden Hour
as Sylvie
Where Souls Go
as Stéphanie
Proust and Signs: On Chantal Akerman's "La Captive"
as archive image
The Two of Them
as Sandrine
Cocorico
as Nicole Martin
Des mains en or
as Rose
Marinette
as RĂ©gine Pierre, Saint-Memmie coach
The Grand Restaurant IV
Maman, ne me laisse pas m'endormir
as Sophie
Simone: Woman of the Century
as Marceline Rozenberg (1968 - 1979)
Tout le monde savait
as Valérie Bacot
Champagne !
as Joanna
Flashback
as Olympe de Gouges
L'Heureux StratagĂšme
as La Comtesse
The Grand Restaurant III
as The nymphomaniac's friend
I Love You Coiffure
as GeneviĂšve (segment "L'Addition")
Meet the Malawas
as Nathalie Dulac
Disclaimer
as Maïté
Quand sort la recluse
as le lieutenant Froissy
Wide Load
as Jennifer
Defiant Souls
as Enriqueta Faber / Enrique Faber
Suspiria
as Miss Griffith
Deux gouttes d'eau
as Valérie Laforge
No Poster
Fan Club
as Anna
A New Girl in Paris!
as Amandine
Kings for a Day
as Val
Final Portrait
as Annette Giacometti
Wedding Unplanned
as Clarisse
Mörderische Stille
as Elena
Tamara
as Amandine
The Exchange Student
as EloĂŻse
The Visitors: Bastille Day
as Charlotte de Robespierre
ArrĂȘte ton cinĂ©ma !
as Sybille
Too Close to the Sun
as Sophie Picard
Gad Elmaleh - Le Big Show
as Self
Thanks to my Friends
as Stéphane Brunge
Spiderwebhouse
as Sabine
Two Women
as Elisaveta Bogdanovna
Ceux qui dansent sur la tĂȘte
as Catherine
Papa Was Not a Rolling Stone
as NadiĂšge
French Women
as Sam
24 Days
as Brigitte Farell
96 heures
as Marion Reynaud
Ă votre bon cĆur, mesdames
as Lolita
My Name Is Hmmm...
as La mĂšre de CĂ©line
Les DĂ©ferlantes
as Louise
For a Woman
as Anne
A Song For Mama
as Sylvie
Roxana's Hands
as Roxana Orlac
Max
as Nina
Rebellion
as Chantal Legorjus
The Night Clerk
as Sylvie Poncet
L'Amour, la Mort, les Fringues
The Rebel, Louise Michel
as Louise Michel
Mumu
as Mumu
The Round Up
as Bella Zygler
Sentiments provisoires
as HĂ©lĂšne
Sisters
as Sybille adulte
Lucky Luke
as Calamity Jane
Lourdes
as Christine
Can't Say No
as AdĂšle
Vengeance
as Irene Costello
A Happy Man
as Catherine
The Idiot
as Darya Alexeyevna
Sagan
as Françoise Quoirez dite Sagan
The Vanishing Point
as Lucie Audibert
Arthur Honegger - Jeanne D'Arc Au Bucher
as Jeanne d'Arc
La France
as Camille
Eat, for This Is My Body
as Madame
La Vie en Rose
as Simone 'MĂŽmone' Berteaut
Legacy
as Patricia
La vie est Ă nous !
as Louise Delhomme
Words in Blue
as Clara
Victoire
as Victoire
Cause toujours !
as LĂ©a
Tout pour l'oseille
as Prune
Tomorrow We Move
as Charlotte
Making of Tomorrow We Move
as Self / Charlotte
Labyrinth
as Claude
Dead Man's Memories
as Das MĂ€dchen
Only Girls
as Tina
Fear and Trembling
as Amélie
A Loving Father
as Virginia
Life Kills Me
as Myriam
A Day in the Life of French Cinema
as Self
No Poster
Stolen Tangos
as Alice / Paula
Women or Children First
as Virginie
A Moment of Happiness
as L'institutrice
Everyman's Feast
as Sophie
Les acteurs anonymes
as Self (uncredited)
Iâm Going Home
as Ariel
The ChĂąteau
as Isabelle
No Poster
Julies Geist
as Julia
The Dark Room
as AzalaĂŻs
Murderous Maids
as Christine Papin
The Captive
as Ariane
Scénarios sur la drogue
as Segment "Lucie"
Bad Connection
as Laurence
In Heaven
as Valeska
Annaluise & Anton
as Laurence
Karnaval
as BĂ©a
Marée haute
The Misadventures of Margaret
as Young Nun
Sentimental Education
as Julia
Fire in Paradise
as Esther
Beyond Silence
as Lara
Those Were the Days
as Sylvie
No Poster
Ăternelles
as Nathalie
The Story of a Boy Who Wanted to Be Kissed
as Girl at party offering food
Marie's Song
as Marie
No Poster