Sylvie Testud
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Occupation | Actress |
Years active | 1991–present |
Children | 2 |
Honours | Ordre national du Mérite |
Sylvie Testud(born 17 January 1971) is a French actress whose film career began in 1991. She won theCésar Award for Most Promising ActressforMurderous Maids(2000), theCésar Award for Best ActressforFear and Trembling(2003), and theEuropean Film Award for Best ActressforLourdes(2009). Her other film roles includeBeyond Silence(1996),La Vie en Rose(2007), andFrench Women(2014).
Life and career[edit]
She grew up in theLa Croix-Roussequarter ofLyon,France. This was an area with many Portuguese, Spanish and Italianimmigrants.Her mother immigrated from Italy in the 1960s. Her French father left the family when Sylvie was just two years old.[1]
In 1985, when she was 14, she sawCharlotte Gainsbourgin her role of the complex young girl inL'Effrontée,a film directed byClaude 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 likeL'Histoire du garçon qui voulait qu'on l'embrasse,directed byPhilippe Harel,andLove, etc.,directed by Marion Vernoux. In 1997 she had great success in Germany withCaroline Link'sJenseits der Stillefor which she learned German,sign language,and the clarinet. In 1998 she had her first major role in French cinema playing Béa inThomas Vincent'sKarnaval.In 2000 she starred inChantal Akerman'sLa Captive,an adaptation ofLa Prisonière,the fifth part ofMarcel Proust'sÀ la recherche du temps perdu.In 2001 she won theCésar Award for Most Promising Actressfor her portrayal of Christine Papin, one of thePapin sisters,inLes 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.[citation needed]
In 2003, she published the autobiographical bookIl 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.[citation needed]
One of her most noted performances was as the star of the filmStupeur et tremblements,adapted from the novel byAmélie Nothomb,for which she was awarded aCésarand aLumières Award for Best Actressin 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[clarification needed]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 ofStefan Zweig'sLa Pitié dangereuse.She starred in 2007's two-timeAcademy Award-winning filmLa Vie en rose,as Momone, Edith Piaf's best friend. In the 2008 filmSagan,she portrayed the writerFrançoise Sagan,earning unanimous praise for her hauntingly accurate portrayal and for which she was again nominated for theCésarfor best actress.[citation needed]
She was madeChevalier(Knight) of theOrdre national du Méritein 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 inRendez-vous en terre inconnue.
Filmography[edit]
Feature films[edit]
Television[edit]
Year | Title | Role | Director |
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1995 | Lettre ouverte à Lili | Virginie | Jean-Luc Trotignon |
Le Nid tombé de l'oiseau | Laurence | Alain Schwartzstein | |
2009 | L'une chante, l'autre aussi | Herself | Olivier Nicklaus |
2010 | Louise Michel | Louise Michel | Sólveig Anspach |
2011 | Le Grand Restaurant | A Client | Gérard Pullicino |
2012 | Rendez-vous en terre inconnue | Herself | |
2013 | Les Déferlantes | Louise | Éleonore Faucher |
2014 | Ceux qui dansent sur la tête | Catherine | Magaly Richard-Serrano |
Fais pas ci, fais pas ça | Sylviane Chinsky, the marriage therapist | Pascal Chaumeil | |
2017 | Maximilian | Charlotte de Savoie | Andreas Prochaska |
2018 | Germanized | Odile | Denis Dercourt |
Director[edit]
Year | Title | Notes |
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1998 | Je veux descendre | Short |
2012 | Another Woman's Life |
Decorations[edit]
Awards and nominations[edit]
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Deutscher Filmpreis[edit]
Year | Nominated work | Category | Result |
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1997 | Beyond Silence | Best Actress | Won |
César Awards[edit]
Year | Nominated work | Category | Result |
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2000 | Karnaval | Most Promising Actress | Nominated |
2001 | Murderous Maids | Most Promising Actress | Won |
2004 | Fear and Trembling | Best Actress | Won |
2008 | La Vie en rose | Best Supporting Actress | Nominated |
2009 | Sagan | Best Actress | Nominated |
Lumières Award[edit]
Year | Nominated work | Category | Result |
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2004 | Fear and Trembling | Best Actress | Won |
2008 | Ce que mes yeux ont vu | Best Actress | Nominated |
2009 | Sagan | Best Actress | Nominated |
Globes de Cristal Awards[edit]
Year | Nominated work | Category | Result |
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2009 | Sagan | Best Actress | Won |
European Film Awards[edit]
Year | Nominated work | Category | Result |
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2010 | Lourdes | Best Actress | Won |
References[edit]
- ^Paris MatchNo. 2834, September 2003
- ^ "Décret du 14 novembre 2008 portant promotion et nomination".JORF(in French).2008(266): 17476. 15 November 2008. PREX0823631D.Retrieved14 March2009.
- ^"Paris Match, 26 January 2011".
- ^"Flux".Culturecommunication.gouv.fr.Retrieved8 May2019.
External links[edit]
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- Sylvie TestudatIMDb
- Sylvie TestudatAlloCiné(in French)
- Sylvie Testudat Actricesdefrance.org
- CSOJ – Alain BadiouSylvie Testud appears on French television's programCe Soir(En direct, channel 3) in conversation with militant philosopherAlain 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).
- 1971 births
- Living people
- French film actresses
- French people of Italian descent
- Knights of the Ordre national du Mérite
- Best Actress César Award winners
- Actresses from Lyon
- Best Actress German Film Award winners
- European Film Award for Best Actress winners
- Best Actress Lumières Award winners
- 20th-century French actresses
- 21st-century French actresses
- French film directors
- French women film directors
- Most Promising Actress César Award winners
- French National Academy of Dramatic Arts alumni
- Cours Florent alumni
- French women screenwriters
- French screenwriters
- Officiers of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres