Sylvie Testud
| Sylvie Testud | |
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 Sylvie Testud in 2011 | |
| Born |
17 January 1971 Lyon, Rhône, France |
| Occupation | Actress, director, writer |
| Years active | 1991–present |
Sylvie Testud (born 17 January 1971) is a French actress, writer and film director, whose film career began in 1991. She won the César Award for Most Promising Actress for Murderous Maids (2000), the César Award for Best Actress for Fear and Trembling (2003) and the European Film Award for Best Actress for Lourdes (2009). Her other film roles include Beyond Silence (1996), La Vie en Rose (2007) and French Women (2014).
Life and career
She grew up in the La Croix-Rousse quarter of Lyon, France. This was an area with many Portuguese, Spanish and Italian immigrants. Her mother immigrated from Italy in the 1960s and married a Frenchman who left the family when Sylvie was just two years old.[1]
In 1985, when she was 14, she saw Charlotte Gainsbourg in her role of the complex young girl in L'Effrontée, a film directed by Claude Miller, identified with Gainsbourg, and so took drama classes in Lyon with the actor and director Christian Taponard. In 1989, she moved to Paris and spent three years at the Conservatoire (CNSAD). In the early and mid 1990s, she landed her first small roles in films like L'Histoire du garcon qui voulait qu'on l'embrasse, directed by Philippe Harel, and Love, etc., directed by Marion Vernoux. In 1997 she had great success in Germany with Caroline Link's Jenseits der Stille for which she learned German, sign language, and the clarinet. In 1998 she had her first major role in French cinema playing Béa in Thomas Vincent's Karnaval. In 2000 she starred in Chantal Akerman's La Captive, an adaptation of La Prisonièrre, the fifth part of Marcel Proust's A La Recherche du Temps Perdu. In 2001 she won the César Award for Most Promising Actress for her portrayal of Christine Papin, one of the Papin sisters, in Les Blessures assassines (English title: Murderous Maids), The story concerned a young servant woman found guilty of the murder, with her sister's help, of her employer's wife and daughter; it had made sensational headlines in France in 1933.
In 2003, she published the autobiographical book Il n'y a pas beaucoup d'étoiles ce soir, with anecdotes of her day-to-day life as an actress. The French edition featured a cover designed by her sister Ghislaine.
One of her most noted performances was as the star of the film Stupeur et tremblements, adapted from the novel by Amélie Nothomb, for which she was awarded a César and a Lumières Award for Best Actress in 2004. She plays a woman struggling with the difference in culture between the Japanese business world and the western, Belgian world, from which she comes. In 2005 or 2006 she returned to her native Lyon (to the Théâtre de la Croix Rousse), where she played the rôle of Edith in Philippe Faure's adaptation of Stefan Zweig's La Pitié dangereuse. She starred in 2007's two-time Academy Award-winning film La Vie en Rose, as Momone, Edith Piaf's best friend. In the 2008 film Sagan, she portrayed the writer Françoise Sagan, earning unanimous praise for her hauntingly accurate portrayal and for which she was again nominated for the César for best actress.
She was made Chevalier (Knight) of the Ordre national du Mérite in March 2009.[2]
She has a son, Ruben, born on 15 February 2005, and a daughter Esther, born in January 2011.[3]
In 2012, she participated in Rendez-vous en terre inconnue.
Filmography
Actress
| Year | Title | Role | Director | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1991 | La violoniste | Yves Forgeat | Short | |
| 1993 | Couples et amants | The young girl | John Lvoff | |
| 1994 | L'histoire du garçon qui voulait qu'on l'embrassee | Girl at party offering food | Philippe Harel | |
| Éternelles | Nathalie | Erick Zonca | Short | |
| Maries Lied: Ich war, ich weiß nicht wo | Marie | Niko von Glasow | ||
| 1995 | Those Were the Days | Sylvie | Didier Haudepin | |
| Le serment d'Hippocrate | Jean-Louis Bertuccelli | TV Movie | ||
| Le nid tombé de l'oiseau | Laurence | Alain Schwartzstein | TV Movie | |
| Lettre ouverte à Lili | Virginie | Jean-Luc Trotignon | TV Movie | |
| Délit mineur | Lili | Olivier Panchot | Short | |
| 1996 | Beyond Silence | Lara | Caroline Link | German Film Awards – Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role |
| Love, etc. | Marion Vernoux | |||
| 1997 | Flammen im Paradies | Esther | Markus Imhoof | |
| 1998 | The Misadventures of Margaret | The young nun | Brian Skeet | |
| Sentimental Education | Julia | C.S. Leigh | ||
| 1999 | Karnaval | Béa | Thomas Vincent | Acteurs à l'Écran – Best Actress (Prix Michel Simon) Nominated – César Award for Most Promising Actress |
| Pünktchen und Anton | Laurence | Caroline Link (2) | ||
| In Heaven | Valeska | Michael Bindlechner | ||
| Marée haute | Caroline Champetier | Short Nominated – Acteurs à l'Écran – Best Actress (Prix Musidora) | ||
| Les pierres qui tombent du ciel | Isabelle Ponnet | Short | ||
| 2000 | La Captive | Ariane | Chantal Akerman | Nominated – European Film Award for Best Actress |
| Drug Scenes | Lucie | Guillaume Nicloux | TV Series (1 Episode : "Lucie") | |
| Sade | Renée de Sade | Benoît Jacquot | ||
| Murderous Maids | Christine Papin | Jean-Pierre Denis | César Award for Most Promising Actress Mons International Festival of Love Films – Best Actress | |
| Faux contact | Laurence | Eric Jameux | Short | |
| La Chambre obscure | Azalaïs | Marie-Christine Questerbert | ||
| 2001 | I'm Going Home | Ariel | Manoel de Oliveira | |
| The Château | Isabelle | Jesse Peretz | ||
| Julies Geist | Julia | Bettina Wilhelm | ||
| Ce qui compte pour Mathilde | Mathilde | Stéphanie Murat | Short | |
| 2002 | Everyman's Feast | Sophie | Fritz Lehner | |
| A Loving Father | Virginia | Jacob Berger | ||
| Un moment de bonheur | The teacher | Antoine Santana | ||
| Les femmes... ou les enfants d'abord... | Virginie | Manuel Poirier | ||
| Tangos volés | Alice / Paula | Eduardo de Gregorio | ||
| Vivre me tue | Myriam | Jean-Pierre Sinapi | ||
| 2003 | Fear and Trembling | Amélie | Alain Corneau | César Award for Best Actress Karlovy Vary International Film Festival – Best Actress Lumières Award for Best Actress Étoiles d'Or – Best Actress |
| Sole Sisters | Tina | Pierre Jolivet | ||
| Dédales | Claude | René Manzor | ||
| Der gläserne Blick | Das Mädchen | Markus Heltschl | ||
| 2004 | Tomorrow We Move | Charlotte | Chantal Akerman (2) | |
| Tout pour l'oseille | Prune | Bertrand Van Effenterre | ||
| Cause toujours! | Léa | Jeanne Labrune | ||
| Victoire | Victoire | Stéphanie Murat (2) | ||
| 2005 | Words in Blue | Clara | Alain Corneau (2) | |
| La vie est à nous ! | Louise Delhomme | Gérard Krawczyk | ||
| 2006 | L'héritage | Patricia | Géla Babluani Temur Babluani |
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| 2007 | La Vie en rose | Simone Berteaut (Mômone) | Olivier Dahan | Nominated – César Award for Best Supporting Actress |
| La France | Camille | Serge Bozon | ||
| Jeanne d'Arc au bûcher | Joan of Arc | Don Kent | TV Movie | |
| Mange, ceci est mon corps | Madame | Michelange Quay | ||
| Ce que mes yeux ont vu | Lucie Audibert | Laurent de Bartillat | Nominated – Lumières Award for Best Actress (2) | |
| 2008 | Sagan | Françoise Sagan | Diane Kurys | Globes de Cristal Award for Best Actress Nominated – César Award for Best Actress (2) |
| L'idiot | Daria Alexeïevna | Pierre Léon | ||
| Marguerite ou La vie tranquille | Marguerite Duras | Stéphanie Murat (3) | Short | |
| 2009 | Lucky Luke | Calamity Jane | James Huth | |
| Le Bonheur de Pierre | Catherine Martin | Robert Ménard | ||
| Vengeance | Irène Thompson | Johnnie To | ||
| Lourdes | Christine | Jessica Hausner | European Film Award for Best Actress | |
| Gamines | Sybille (adult) | Éléonore Faucher | ||
| Je ne dis pas non | Adèle | Iliana Lolitch | ||
| Louise Michel | Louise Michel | Sólveig Anspach | ||
| 2010 | The Round Up | Bella Zygler | Roselyne Bosch | |
| Mumu | Ms. Mulard | Joël Séria | ||
| Biographie sans Antoinette | Roberto Maria Grassi | TV Movie | ||
| Sentiments provisoires | Hélène | TV Movie | ||
| 2011 | Rebellion | Chantal Legorjus | Mathieu Kassovitz | |
| Avant l'aube | Sylvie Poncet | Raphaël Jacoulot | ||
| Le grand restaurant II | The client who meets Hitler's lookalike | Gérard Pullicino | TV Movie | |
| 2012 | The Scapegoat | Bela | Charles Sturridge | |
| Max | Nina | Stéphanie Murat (4) | ||
| Les mains de Roxana | Roxana Orlac | Philippe Setbon | TV Movie | |
| 2013 | Pour une femme | Anne | Diane Kurys (2) | |
| Une chanson pour ma mère | Sylvie | Joel Franka | ||
| Je m'appelle Hmmm... | Céline's mother | agnès b. | ||
| Les déferlantes | Louise | Éléonore Faucher (2) | TV Movie | |
| À votre bon coeur Mesdames | Lolita | Jean-Pierre Mocky | ||
| 2014 | 96 hours | Marion Reynaud | Frédéric Schoendoerffer | |
| 24 Days | Brigitte Farell | Alexandre Arcady | ||
| Sous les jupes des filles | Sam | Audrey Dana | ||
| Ceux qui dansent sur la tête | Catherine | Magaly Richard-Serrano | TV Movie | |
| Papa Was Not a Rolling Stone | Nadiège | Sylvie Ohayon | ||
| Mesyats v derevne | Elisavetta Bogdanovna | Vera Glagoleva | ||
| Fais pas ci, fais pas ça | Sylviane Chinsky | Pascal Chaumeil | TV Series (1 Episode) | |
| 2015 | Im Spinnwebhaus | Sabine | Mara Eibl-Eibesfeldt | |
| Au plus près du Soleil | Sophie Picard | Yves Angelo | ||
| Le talent de mes amis | Stéphane Brunge | Alex Lutz | ||
| 2016 | Arrête ton cinéma | Sybille Teyssier | Diane Kurys | |
| Les Visiteurs: La Révolution | Charlotte Robespierre | Jean-Marie Poiré |
Director
| Year | Title | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 1998 | Je veux descendre | Short |
| 2012 | Another Woman's Life |
Decorations
References
- ↑ Paris Match 2834, September 2003
- ↑ "Décret du 14 novembre 2008 portant promotion et nomination". JORF (in French) 2008 (266): 17476. 15 November 2008. PREX0823631D. Retrieved 14 March 2009.
- ↑ Paris Match, 26 January 2011
- ↑ http://www.culturecommunication.gouv.fr/Ministere/Services-rattaches-a-la-ministre/Section-des-distinctions-honorifiques/Arretes-de-Nominations-dans-l-ordre-des-Arts-et-des-Lettres/Nomination-dans-l-ordre-des-Arts-et-des-Lettres-janvier-2016
External links
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Sylvie Testud. |
- Sylvie Testud at the Internet Movie Database
- Sylvie Testud at AlloCiné (French)
- Sylvie Testud at Actricesdefrance.org
- CSOJ – Alain Badiou Sylvie Testud appears on French television's program Ce Soir (En direct, channel 3) in conversation with militant philosopher Alain Badiou. The topic of this episode is "Faut-il réinventer l'amour?". Ms. Testud appears 46:18 minutes into the program and is in conversation with Badiou and the program host for about 24 minutes (no commercials, this show is in French).
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