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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
January 17, 1971
Place of Birth
Lyon, Rhône, France
Also Known As
- Sylvie Voyer
- Sylvie Voyet
Sylvie Testud
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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
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Nicole Martin
Cocorico 2
2026
2.7
Stéphanie
Where Souls Go
2025
0.0
archive image
Proust and Signs: On Chantal Akerman's "La Captive"
2025
5.3
Froissy
Sur la dalle
2024
0.0
Sandrine
Elles deux
2024
7.0
Mathilde
Jíkuri. Journey to the Land of the Tarahumara
2024
3.5
Blanche
Knok
2024
5.5
Nicole Martin
Cocorico
2024
6.5
Régine Pierre, Saint-Memmie coach
Marinette
2023
5.5
Rose
Des mains en or
2023
Credits
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Cocorico 2
as Nicole Martin
2026
0.0
Where Souls Go
as Stéphanie
2025
2.7
Proust and Signs: On Chantal Akerman's "La Captive"
as archive image
2025
0.0
Sur la dalle
as Froissy
2024
5.3
Elles deux
as Sandrine
2024
0.0
Jíkuri. Journey to the Land of the Tarahumara
as Mathilde
2024
7.0
Knok
as Blanche
2024
3.5
Cocorico
as Nicole Martin
2024
5.5
Marinette
as Régine Pierre, Saint-Memmie coach
2023
6.5
Des mains en or
as Rose
2023
5.5
A Case for Kin
as Capitaine Caroline Flament
2023
7.8
The Grand Restaurant IV
2022
8.0
The Unexpected Getaway
as Self
2022
9.0
Club Première
as Self - Guest
2022
0.0
Maman, ne me laisse pas m'endormir
as Sophie
2022
7.4
Simone: Woman of the Century
as Marceline Rozenberg (1968 - 1979)
2022
7.9
Tout le monde savait
as Valérie Bacot
2022
0.0
Champagne !
as Joanna
2022
5.2
What Pauline Is Not Telling You
as major de gendarmerie Marie Hermann
2022
6.4
Flashback
as Olympe de Gouges
2021
5.9
L'Heureux Stratagème
as La Comtesse
2021
0.0
Runaway
as Isabelle
2021
5.6
The Grand Restaurant III
as The nymphomaniac's friend
2021
5.3
I Love You Coiffure
as Geneviève (segment "L'Addition")
2020
3.8
Fear by the Lake
as Alice Wagner
2020
6.7
Meet the Malawas
as Nathalie Dulac
2019
4.5
Kemps
as Self
2019
0.0
Disclaimer
as Maïté
2019
4.7
Eden
as Hélène
2019
7.5
Quand sort la recluse
as le lieutenant Froissy
2019
5.9
Wide Load
as Jennifer
2019
4.2
Defiant Souls
as Enriqueta Faber / Enrique Faber
2019
6.1
Deutsch-Les-Landes
as Odile
2018
8.0
Suspiria
as Miss Griffith
2018
6.9
Deux gouttes d'eau
as Valérie Laforge
2018
6.1
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Fan Club
as Anna
2018
0.0
A New Girl in Paris!
as Amandine
2018
6.4
Kings for a Day
as Val
2018
5.6
Final Portrait
as Annette Giacometti
2017
6.0
Wedding Unplanned
as Clarisse
2017
6.1
Maximilian and Marie De Bourgogne
as Charlotte de Savoye
2017
6.6
Mörderische Stille
as Elena
2017
5.5
Tamara
as Amandine
2016
6.3
The Exchange Student
as Eloïse
2016
5.4
The Visitors: Bastille Day
as Charlotte de Robespierre
2016
4.2
Arrête ton cinéma !
as Sybille
2016
4.6
Capitaine Marleau
as Salomé Revel
2015
6.0
Too Close to the Sun
as Sophie Picard
2015
5.7
Thanks to my Friends
as Stéphane Brunge
2015
5.0
Spiderwebhouse
as Sabine
2015
5.9
Gad Elmaleh - Le Big Show
as Self
2015
5.8
Two Women
as Elisaveta Bogdanovna
2014
6.4
Ceux qui dansent sur la tête
as Catherine
2014
5.3
Papa Was Not a Rolling Stone
as Nadiège
2014
5.6
French Women
as Sam
2014
5.7
24 Days
as Brigitte Farell
2014
6.6
96 heures
as Marion Reynaud
2014
5.4
À votre bon cœur, mesdames
as Lolita
2013
5.0
My Name Is Hmmm...
as La mère de Céline
2013
5.5
Les Déferlantes
as Louise
2013
5.1
For a Woman
as Anne
2013
6.0
A Song For Mama
as Sylvie
2013
4.9
Roxana's Hands
as Roxana Orlac
2013
4.5
Max
as Nina
2013
5.8
The Unexpected Getaway
as Self
2012
8.5
28 minutes
as Self
2012
2.5
Rebellion
as Chantal Legorjus
2011
6.7
The Night Clerk
as Sylvie Poncet
2011
5.7
L'Amour, la Mort, les Fringues
2011
7.0
The Rebel, Louise Michel
as Louise Michel
2010
5.9
Mumu
as Mumu
2010
5.8
The Round Up
as Bella Zygler
2010
7.5
Sentiments provisoires
as Hélène
2010
6.0
Sisters
as Sybille adulte
2009
5.3
Lucky Luke
as Calamity Jane
2009
4.5
Lourdes
as Christine
2009
6.6
C à vous
as Self
2009
6.1
C à vous
as Self - Guest
2009
6.1
Can't Say No
as Adèle
2009
0.0
Vengeance
as Irene Costello
2009
6.6
A Happy Man
as Catherine
2009
4.5
Panique dans l'oreillette
as Self
2008
5.3
The Idiot
as Darya Alexeyevna
2008
6.5
Sagan
as Françoise Quoirez dite Sagan
2008
6.2
The Vanishing Point
as Lucie Audibert
2007
5.7
Arthur Honegger - Jeanne D'Arc Au Bucher
as Jeanne d'Arc
2007
0.0
La France
as Camille
2007
6.4
Eat, for This Is My Body
as Madame
2007
3.3
La Vie en Rose
as Simone 'Mômone' Berteaut
2007
7.4
Legacy
as Patricia
2006
6.4
On n'est pas couché
as Self - Guest
2006
5.1
La vie est à nous !
as Louise Delhomme
2005
5.4
Words in Blue
as Clara
2005
6.2
Rendez-vous in an Unknown Land
as Self
2004
7.3
Victoire
as Victoire
2004
1.0
Cause toujours !
as Léa
2004
4.5
Tout pour l'oseille
as Prune
2004
4.5
Tomorrow We Move
as Charlotte
2004
5.8
Making of Tomorrow We Move
as Self / Charlotte
2004
0.0
Labyrinth
as Claude
2003
6.6
Dead Man's Memories
as Das Mädchen
2003
4.0
Only Girls
as Tina
2003
6.2
Fear and Trembling
as Amélie
2003
6.4
A Loving Father
as Virginia
2002
5.3
Life Kills Me
as Myriam
2002
4.1
A Day in the Life of French Cinema
as Self
2002
0.0
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Stolen Tangos
as Alice / Paula
2002
5.0
Women or Children First
as Virginie
2002
5.0
A Moment of Happiness
as L'institutrice
2002
5.2
Everyman's Feast
as Sophie
2002
2.0
Les acteurs anonymes
as Self (uncredited)
2001
5.0
I’m Going Home
as Ariel
2001
6.7
The Château
as Isabelle
2001
4.7
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Julies Geist
as Julia
2001
0.0
The Dark Room
as Azalaïs
2000
4.2
Murderous Maids
as Christine Papin
2000
6.1
The Captive
as Ariane
2000
5.6
Scénarios sur la drogue
as Segment "Lucie"
2000
5.0
Bad Connection
as Laurence
2000
6.0
In Heaven
as Valeska
1999
0.0
Annaluise & Anton
as Laurence
1999
7.0
Karnaval
as Béa
1999
6.0
Marée haute
1999
0.0
The Misadventures of Margaret
as Young Nun
1998
4.7
Sentimental Education
as Julia
1998
0.0
Fire in Paradise
as Esther
1997
4.8
Beyond Silence
as Lara
1996
6.9
Those Were the Days
as Sylvie
1995
5.4
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Éternelles
as Nathalie
1994
0.0
The Story of a Boy Who Wanted to Be Kissed
as Girl at party offering food
1994
2.3
Marie's Song
as Marie
1994
4.5
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German Film Award
as Self
1951
6.0
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Tout un poème
N/A
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