Sylvie Testud Biography

MARITAL STATUS
Professions Actress , Director , Author more
French nationality
Birth January 17, 1971 (Lyon – France)

BIOGRAPHY
Born to an accountant mother of Italian origin and a father who abandoned them when she was two years old, Sylvie Testud grew up in the popular Croix-Rousse neighborhood in Lyon. Very early on, fascinated by cinema, the young girl identified in particular with the character of a complex teenager played by Charlotte Gainsbourg in L’Effrontée . Going to Paris to study history, she soon launched into comedy by joining the free class of the Cours Florent then the Conservatory, where her teachers were Jacques Lassalle and Catherine Hiegel . She made her first appearance on screen in 1994 in Couples and Lovers .

The same year, Sylvie Testud was hired for a Franco-German co-production, Maries Lied . But the French withdrew from the project, and the actress was promoted, during the release of this remarkable film, to a young hope of cinema from across the Rhine. For Jenseits der Stille , she learned the language of Goethe, but also the clarinet and sign language, a performance which earned her the German equivalent of the César for Best Actress. It was in 1999 that the French discovered the mischievous smile of Sylvie Testud in Karnaval , the Dunkirk chronicle by Thomas Vincent . Chosen by Akerman to be the heroine of La Captive (2000), adaptation of Marcel Proust ‘s La Prisonnière , she then appeared at Jacquot and Oliveira . In 2000, the frail and laughing actress revealed an unsuspected violence by playing Christine Papin in Les Blessures assassines by Jean-Pierre Denis , a performance rewarded with a César for Most Promising Actor. Affectionate with troubled and offbeat characters – serial killer in Dédales , thief in Unique Girls -, Sylvie Testud won the César for Best Actress in 2004 for Corneau ‘s Stupor and Tremors , the story full of irony of a descent into hell in the world of Japanese business, based on the best seller by Amélie Nothomb . Having become a leading actress, she continued in this burlesque vein with Always Cause! by Jeanne Labrune and Tomorrow we move , by her accomplice Akerman ,

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After playing a young woman ready to do anything to join the man of her life on the front in 1917 in La France , she searches for the Watteau mystery alongside Jean-Pierre Marielle in What My Eyes Have Seen . Then, in 2007, she participated in the international success of La Môme by playing Mômone, the childhood friend of Edith Piaf. Sylvie Testud continues the biopics by appearing in front of the camera of Diane Kurys with Pierre Palmade for the needs of Sagan , eponymous film about the famous writer with a riotous life. In 2009, far from her composition roles, she lent her features to the famous Calamity Jane in Lucky Luke , adaptation of the cult comic book by Morris and René Goscinny .

Between 2008 and 2011, this actress, very present on French screens, notably played the role of a miraculous paraplegic in the highly acclaimed Lourdes , Daria Alexeïevna in The Idiot (adaptation of Dostoyevsky ‘s classic ), the famous anarchist activist in Louise Michel la rebel , or Chantal Legorjus in the polemic L’Ordre et la morale , directed by Mathieu Kassovitz . Sylvie Testud reunited with Kassovitz in 2011 for The Life of Another . This time, the roles are reversed: she takes charge of the production and he plays one of the main characters . The actress also works abroad in front of the camera of the Englishman Charles Sturridge for The Scapegoat and the Russian Vera Glagoleva with Two Women . In 2014, Sylvie Testud played in several films, including the thriller 96 Heures by Frédéric Schoendoerffer , the drama adapted from a sordid news item 24 Jours, the truth about the Ilan Halimi affair directed by Alexandre Arcady or the comedy Sous girls’ skirts , Audrey Dana ‘s first creation . The following year, she was in the casting of Alex Lutz ‘s first film , Le Talent de mes amis and in a more dramatic register, played a woman seeing the biological mother of the child she adopted in her life arrive in Closer to the Sun by Yves Angelo . Touring a lot, Sylvie Testud favors comedy. As evidenced by his performances in Stop your cinema! , Visitors – The Revolution , Tamara (and her suite), Exceptional convoy , Any resemblance , Meet at the Malawa , Champagne! and Cocorico . Very active on television, she appeared in Eden by Dominik Moll , then Peur sur le lac , Capitaine Marleau , Fugueuse and Ce que Pauline ne vous dit pas .