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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.
Most Popular Sylvie Testud Trailers
Total trailers found: 109
07 June 2023
Based on the biography Ne jamais rien lâcher, the script traces the career of Marinette Pichon over three decades.
30 September 1999
The Hamburg friends Walter, Ricco and Floyd take each day as it comes between the estates of tower blocks and fast food restaurants.
18 December 1996
Beyond Silence is about a family and a young girl’s coming of age story. This German film looks into the lives of the deaf and at a story about the love for music.
26 October 2018
A darkness swirls at the center of a world-renowned dance company, one that will engulf the artistic director, an ambitious young dancer, and a grieving psychotherapist.
18 October 2022
Juliette discovers that her teenage son, whom she thought was flourishing, is in reality undermined by a deep malaise and that he has become dangerously dependent on drugs.
15 December 2022
For this new year, Pierre, the director of the Grand Restaurant is thinking big to try to get the famous star from the famous Michalon guide! And for that, he settles at the foot of the Eiffel Tower.
27 November 2019
Since his sensational arrival at the head of the 20 Hours, Cédric Saint Guérande, known as "CSG" is THE favorite presenter of the French.
14 February 2012
When the fun loving Marie sets her eyes on brooding comic book artist Paul, it sets off the kind of romantic sparks that quickly culminate in the bedroom.
11 June 2008
France, 1950s. From the Quartier Latin to Saint-Tropez via New York, a young Parisienne becomes the icon of a whole generation.
07 June 2023
Philippe is a well-known writer, whose life was going smoothly: a surgeon wife, a circle of high-ranking friends, a Parisian mansion.
30 April 2014
When Ilan Halimi is kidnapped for ransom because Jewish and supposedly rich, his family and the police start a race against time to save him from the tortures of the "gang of barbarians".
11 September 2009
In order to escape her isolation, wheelchair-bound Christine makes a life changing journey to Lourdes, the iconic site of pilgrimage in the Pyrenees Mountains.
11 March 1999
Luise, called Pünktchen, and Anton are closest of friends. Being the daughter of a wealthy surgeon, young Pünktchen lives in a great house.
06 May 2015
A man in his mid 30's reevaluates his life and priorities after he met someone from his past.
24 March 2010
The story a rescue, the rescue of a bad brat's life in the post-WWII period. In 1947, Roger reaches 11 years old.
03 July 2013
After the death of her mother, Anne makes a shocking discovery: an old photograph casts doubt on her origins and leads her to discover a mysterious uncle who lived with her parents after the war.
18 January 2013
Max is 6 years old. She lives with her dad Toni, a small time crook with a golden heart. For Xmas, Max offers him Rose, a call-girl found on the street whom she’s very fond of.
02 May 2018
A wannabe actor must chose between his passion and his father, a crook.
07 December 2005
Louise and Blanche run L'Etape, a cafe restaurant in a Savoy village. Facing them is Le Virage, run by Lucie and her daughters.
24 August 2016
Malo and Stéphane are two students who are kind of losers and have just started high school. Their plan to become popular: to host a German exchange student with a lot of style.
08 June 2022
Springtime in the French vineyards of Champagne. Patrick has gathered his oldest friends for his bachelor party.
23 April 2014
Carré is the boss of the BRB (Brigade for the Repression of Banditry). 3 years earlier, he arrested a big mobster, Kancel.
12 March 2003
Amélie, a young Belgian woman, having spent her childhood in Japan, decides to return to live there and tries to integrate in the Japanese society.
20 May 2009
A French chef swears revenge after a violent attack on his daughter's family in Macau, during which her husband and her two children are murdered.
13 March 2019
This is the story of a guy who goes too fast and a big guy who is too slow. Foster meets Taupin. All this would be trivial if one of them had a scary scenario, the scenario of their lives and their deaths.
04 July 2018
Tamara has been separated from Diego for two years. She finally leaves home to live the student adventure in Paris with his girlfriend Sam.
09 September 2003
Psychologist Dr. Brennac is asked by a colleague to help with the case of Claude, a patient on trial for multiple murders.
28 July 2004
This way-offbeat comedy from Gallic director Jeanne Labrune concerns two young French women, best friends Léa and Jacinthe.
23 December 1998
A timid, insecure popular author with an overly-attentive professor husband decide to write an erotic novel.
22 March 2005
Clara is afraid of words. Her daughter, Anna, is afraid of others. Vincent is afraid to grow up. But he won't be afraid to love them.
14 June 2024
The life of Rayenari changes when the poet Antonin Artaud arrives to his village seeking the spiritual knowledge of the Tarahumara.
12 September 2013
Holed up in a small Normandy town, Louise hides from her ghosts as she looks after grumpy old Theo, the retired lighthouse keeper who shares her passion for ornithology.
13 November 2002
Writer Léo Shepherd lives in rural France together with his daughter Virginia, who manages his affairs.
07 August 2008
Nastassia Philippovna finds herself juggling the affections of four men over the course of a single evening.
08 October 2014
Stéphanie grew up with an absent mother and a brutal stepfather. One day, she knows, she'll leave the city to live the life she's always dreamed of.
10 December 1997
On her honeymoon on a ship the daughter of a rich plant owner realizes that she's not happy with her marriage.
11 June 2003
After a shoplifter finds herself unexpectedly released on parole, she pays a call on the judge at her flat.
21 December 2020
Liliane and Maud are twin sisters. The first is a modest provincial hairdresser while the second leads the great life in Paris.
04 June 2014
A story about 11 girls living in Paris. Each of them has its own problems: career, love life, children.
03 February 2021
He had opened his Great Restaurant twice, in 2010 and 2011, as part of an entertainment broadcast on France 2.
10 March 2010
A faithful retelling of the 1942 "Vel' d'Hiv Roundup" and the events surrounding it.
27 March 2013
With their beloved mother only a few days to live, her children decide to give her a surprising parting gift: bring Dave, a lifelong fan, to her bedside in the Ardennes.
16 January 2001
Two brothers go to France to claim the chateau they have inherited.
03 March 1999
Karnaval is set against a backdrop of intolerance and hostility in the gloomy Northern French city of Dunkirk.
16 December 2009
Lyon, France in 1970s, Sibylle, Corinne, and Georgette are sisters who share everything, as they live with their Italian mother.
10 September 2007
Haiti, a lonely forgotten black island abandoned to its poverty and misery. A white woman, Madame lives in a fantasy in which she helps to teach, inspire and feed the retched masses of the world.
14 February 2007
From the mean streets of the Belleville district of Paris to the dazzling limelight of New York's most famous concert halls, Edith Piaf's life was a constant battle to sing and survive, to live and love.
13 January 2016
Sybille, an accomplished actress, is given the chance to direct a film based on her own screenplay. Everything seems to go well at first.
19 October 2018
A woman's dead body is found in her apartment on a winter morning. All the evidence points to her fiancé.
06 July 2003
A policeman lunching with his daughter is present when a dead body washes up on shore. He investigates, leading him down a twisted and muddled path of nefarious connections reflecting, somewhat, his own life.
20 May 2002
Documentary showing one day of work of over 90 actors and filmmakers from French cinema on the same day.
22 December 2004
Victoire is sweet, sensitive, nice and understanding. She leads an existence which doesn't leave her much time to wonder.
13 September 1995
The grueling, emotionally torturous world of French preparatory schools provides the framework for this mystery.
25 December 2019
A news anchor, a comedian, an actress, and a soccer player with big egos have to travel across the globe to meet the Malawa tribe for a TV show.
23 March 2016
Stuck in the corridors of time, Godefroy de Montmirail and his faithful servant Jacquouille are projected to a time of profound political and social upheavals: the French Revolution.
28 November 2007
Lucie Audibert, a student of Art History, does research work on Watteau and is certain that a hidden sense that nobody has ever deciphered can be found in a few of his paintings.
