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