Biography
Elsa Zylberstein (born 16 October 1968) is a French film, TV, and stage actress. After studying drama, Zylberstein began her film career in 1989. She won the César Award for Best Supporting Actress for I've Loved You So Long (2008). Description above from the Wikipedia article Elsa Zylberstein, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Complete Filmography
Cycle of Time
2025
as Hélène
In 1950s France, Helene and Michel lead a simple life until a freak accident in 2025 leads to Helene becoming a bank executive and Michel struggling w...

Natacha (Almost) Air Hostess
2025
as Colette
France, 1963. Since she was a child, Natacha has dreamed of freedom and adventure. Her dream has a name: air hostess. She admires the women who fly th...

At the End of the Day
2024
as Léa
In an increasingly crazy world, Lino, who has decided to leave everything behind, will come to realise that, at the end of the day, everything that ha...

Tout sauf l’ennui
2023
as Elsa Zylberstein

Club Zero
2023
as Elsa's Mother
Miss Novak joins the staff of an international boarding school to teach a conscious eating class and forms a strong bond with five students that event...

Coup de Chance
2023
as Caroline Blanc
Fanny and Jean have everything of an ideal couple: fulfilled in their professional life, they live in a magnificent apartment in the beautiful distric...

The Madness Express
2023
as Madeleine
Sébastien, a conscientious and professional train inspector, dreams of being transferred to the South of France. To validate his transfer, he has to m...

Simone: Woman of the Century
2022
as Simone Veil (1968 - 2006)
Simone Veil's life story through the pivotal events of Twentieth Century. Her childhood, her political battles, her tragedies. An intimate and epic po...

Champagne !
2022
as Romane
Springtime in the French vineyards of Champagne. Patrick has gathered his oldest friends for his bachelor party. The trouble is, everyone hates his fu...

Romy : 40 ans après, ultimes confidences
2022
as Self
To honour the 40th anniversary of her death, multiple personalities share their feelings and thoughts about the life and career of the fabulous and bo...

Shoot to Live
2022
as Self
A documentary on filmmaker Claude Lelouch, following him over seven years.

Bigbug
2022
as Alice Barelli
Set in the world of 2045, where communities have robotic helpers, a group of suburbanites are locked in for their protection by their household robots...

Love Is Better Than Life
2022
as Elsa
Upon their release from prison twenty years earlier, Gérard, Ary and Philippe asked themselves if honesty was not the best racket of them all. T...

Tout nous sourit
2021
as Audrey Pottier
The members of an apparently happy couple, each with their respective lovers, have the same idea: spending the weekend at their holiday home. Finding ...

Isn't She Lovely?
2020
as Emma
A couple of parents get in over their heads when they decide to use Scandinavian alternative teaching methods for their teenager.

Waiting for Anya
2020
as Maman
During the harrows of WWII, Jo, a young shepherd along with the help of the widow Horcada, helps to smuggle Jewish children across the border from sou...

I Wish Someone Were Waiting for Me Somewhere
2020
as Héléna
In the beautiful family home, at the end of the summer, Monique celebrates her 70th birthday, surrounded by her 4 children, all of whom have come for ...

Selfie
2020
as Bettina
In a world where digital technology has invaded our lives, some of us end up cracking. Addict or technophobe, with family or at school, at work or in ...

An Irrepressible Woman
2020
as Janot Reichenbach
1940, Jeanne Reichenbach turns her back on a peaceful life to link her destiny to Léon Blum. She's been loving him since her teenage years, and is rea...

Dance of Chance
2019
as Noémie
That day, there’s tension in the air: Marianne has her car and dog stolen from a highway parking lot. Stéphane is constantly arguing with his wife. No...

Bel Canto
2018
as Edith Thibault
A famous opera singer is held hostage in South America by a guerrilla rebel group after performing at a Japanese businessman's lavish birthday party. ...

Rolling to You
2018
as Marie, Jocelyn's secretary
Jocelyn is a selfish and misogynist businessman. He tries to seduce a young pretty woman by pretending to be handicapped, till the day he meets her si...

The Human Voice
2018
as Elle
A woman’s last phone conversation with her lover, who now loves someone else.

With Open Arms
2017
as Daphné Fougerole
Jean-Étienne Fougerole is an intellectual bohemian who released his new novel "In Open Arms" and calling the wealthiest people to welcome home the fam...

Everyone's Life
2017
as La comtesse
Before being judges, attorneys, or jury members, they are first of all men and women at a crossroads in their lives, with their dreams and their secre...

A Bag of Marbles
2017
as Anna
At the beginning of the 1940s, in a France occupied by Nazi forces, lived the Jewish Joffo family. Happy and tight-knit, she sees her future darken wh...

The No-Job Agency
2016
as Cathy Begin
Stéphane, Cathy and Thierry are the best employees of the Employment Agency of their city. But their results are so good that the agency will have to ...

Un + une
2015
as Anna Hamon
A successful film composer falls in love when he travels to India to work on a Bollywood retelling of Romeo and Juliet.

The Price of Desire
2015
as Romaine Brooks
Irish architect and furniture designer Eileen Gray (1878–1976) was a leading light in the modern design movement. This graceful portrayal of her later...

Gemma Bovery
2014
as Wizzy
Martin, an ex-Parisian well-heeled hipster passionate about Gustave Flaubert who settled into a Norman village as a baker, sees an English couple movi...

À votre bon cœur, mesdames
2013
as Sister Blandine
The story of a septuagenarian, recently divorced, which in its reconstruction desire and quest for a new companion will rediscover the small pleasures...

Lines of Wellington
2012
as Irmã Cordélia
Passionate romance, brutal treachery, and selfless nobility are set against the background of Napoleon’s 1810 invasion of Portugal.

Plan de table
2012
as Catherine
A brief but intense hug will have the effect of throwing a meticulously planned wedding into chaos. Is chance about to give fate a helping hand?

Play It Like Godard
2012
as Elsa Zylberstein
Jean-Christophe Kern, known as JC, is not a teenager like any other: he won the Palme d’Or at the age of 15, the Cesar at 16. This year, he is trying ...

Les Tribulations d'une caissière
2011
as Marie
La vie n’est pas rose tous les jours pour Solweig, caissière dans un supermarché. Mais elle garde le sourire, malgré les remarques souvent déplaisante...

A Butterfly Kiss
2011
as Marie
Billie and Louis have the good fortune of loving each other passionately and of having a family. But then one day terrible news turns their existence ...

Roses on Credit
2010
as La pharmacienne
A young couple marry in France in the 1940s and the film follows the arc of their marriage over the next decade. As France recovers from the trauma of...

He's My Girl
2009
as Rosalie
A clarinetist is trying to finish his record when his wife and ten year old son reappear in his life. His 10-year-old son whom he has never seen, and...

La Double Inconstance
2009
as Flaminia
Silvia and Arlequin are in love, but the Prince wants to marry Silvia and kidnaps her. With the help of Flaminia, he plans to seduce her and make her ...

Un risque à courir
2009
A young, idle, half-mad man kidnaps a wealthy woman and confines her to the trunk of his car. He drives very close to the police who are watching his ...

Nucingen House
2009
as Anne-Marie
Surreal gothic comedy about a gambler who wins a strange Chilean mansion and takes his frail wife there.

This Night
2009
Werner Schroeter directed this dark and surreal tale of a man determined to save a lost lover from a grim fate at the hands of a violent mob. The city...

I've Loved You So Long
2008
as Léa
A woman struggles to interact with her family and find her place in society after spending fifteen years in prison.

The Feelings Factory
2008
as Eloïse Hautier
A successful woman searches for romance by speed dating in this drama. Eloise has a great job and a great education, but she's looking for love. Can a...

Enfances
2007
as Ingmar Bergman's mother
Six stories, six films that follow on from each other; this is a glance at the childhood of renowned directors whose style has marked the history of f...

The Stone Council
2006
as Clarisse
In France, the single translator Diane Siprien adopts an Asian baby named Liu-San in a foundation directed by Sybille Weber. Years later, a weird mark...

J'invente rien
2006
as Mathilde
Paul has no specific life goal, and Mathilde, who provides for their household, despairs that he can find one. If he continues like this, she may well...

My Dad Is Into Terrorism
2006
Hostage-taking, deadly bombings in Paris, lobbying, media and judicial machinery. This is the story of a carefree little girl, suddenly confronted wit...

La Petite Jérusalem
2005
as Mathilde
An orthodox Jewish teen living with her family in France attempts to balance her religious upbringing with her increasingly complex view of the outsid...

La cloche a sonné
2005
as Léa
Simon Arcos has a unique method for overcoming stress and the sores of life. Jean, Léa, Nathalie, Yolaine, Antoine and Hervé signed up for one of his ...

Why (Not) Brazil?
2004
as la réalisatrice Laetitia Masson / Christine
A film director, whose career is going downhill, reluctantly decides to adapt an inadaptable best selling novel. Will she succeed or will the book ada...

Loser Takes All!
2004
as Angèle
Serge Vaudier, a mathematics teacher, wins the lotto twice and claims he can do it again, thanks to an infallible system he has designed. Is a he geni...

Modigliani
2004
as Jeanne Hébuterne
Set in Paris in 1919, biopic centers on the life of late Italian artist Amedeo Modigliani, focusing on his last days as well as his rivalry with Pablo...

Tomorrow We Move
2004
as Michèle
When her mother moves in, the life of a writer gets crowded.

Three Blind Mice
2003
as Nathalie
Thomas is a talented computer programmer living in a vibrant, urban metropolis. Lonely and unsure about life, he finds solitude in the world of intern...

That Day
2003
as Livia
A father is scheming to have his slightly mental daughter from an earlier marriage killed by allowing a murderous psychopath to be released from the a...

Monsieur N.
2003
as Albine de Montholon
This film covers the last years of the Emperor's life, imprisoned by the British on St Helena, a remote island off the west coast of Africa. Napoleon ...

Jean Moulin
2002
as Antoinette
The life (and death under torture) of Jean Moulin, head of the French Interior Resistance movements during WWII.
A Day in the Life of French Cinema
2002
as Self
Documentary showing one day of work of over 90 actors and filmmakers from French cinema on the same day. On 27 March 2002, 27 teams filmed actors, dir...

Féroce
2002
as Zébulon - la conseillère en communication
Gilles de Maistre's political thriller Féroce (Ferocious) is about a man seeking revenge. Arab Alain (Samy Naceri) decides to join a fascistic French ...

Angel
2001
as Léa Pastore
Léa is a strong person, but when she comes out of prison, she decides to get a fresh start. She would like to forget her cold and aloof father Vittori...

Les fantômes de Louba
2001
as Louba
Louba never knew her father and lost her mother when she was five years old. Placed in a host family, she meets Jeannie, a pretty and sensual girl. Bu...

Not Afraid, Not Afraid
2001
After being abandoned by her husband after 28 years, an overbearing, self-centered psychologist embarks on a quest to revisit her past loves, accompan...

Love Torn in a Dream
2000
as Lucrezia / Jessica / la Sultane
A serious young man of free spirit is forced by his surroundings to become rich at all costs. A group of blind children tries to open the eyes of the ...

Return to Algiers
2000
as Pierre Nivel's wife
Famous TV news anchorman Pierre Nivel left Algiers for France in 1962. That's been a secret; his Paris co-workers have never known that he was formerl...

I Want It All
1999
as Éva
The collision between family life and career lies at the heart of this comedy hailing from France. A mother of two small children, Eva's life goes fro...

The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Adventures in the Secret Service
1999
as Telephone Girl
Indy finds that he must enlist the help of Hapsburg royalty when he embarks on a dangerous diplomatic mission through enemy-held Europe into the palac...

Time Regained
1999
as Rachel
In early 1920s France, an author, lying on his deathbed, looks at various photographs and is flooded with memories of the people and events that have ...

Lautrec
1998
as Suzanne Valadon
The life of Henri de Toulouse Lautrec, famous french painter, who lived, enjoyed, loved in the late 1800s Paris' Montmartre cultural life. He suffered...

Man Is a Woman
1998
as Rosalie Baumann
Simon Eskenazy is a gay Parisian clarinet player who lives his single life to the fullest. One day, he receives a very tempting offer from his homopho...

XXL
1997
as Arlette Stern
Tunisian-Jewish businessman Alain Berrebi (Michel Boujenah) courts Ashkenazi princess Arlette Stern (Elsa Zylberstein). Her father David (Maurice Chev...

Metroland
1997
as Annick
In late-1970s suburban London, Chris and Marion have settled into a comfortable yet all-too-predictable middle-class existence. Chris receives an unex...

Proper Attire Required
1997
as Lucie
His estranged wife is worth millions, but poor Paris resident Richard is homeless and jobless. He applied for unemployment benefits and now faces char...

Shadow Play
1996
as Emma
Ada and Lise are both costume designers, the first is around 20, the other around 30. Both are working hard on their break through. There are also job...

A Saturday on Earth
1996
as Claire
A series of seemingly unconnected events and 50 important speaking parts make this film a jigsaw puzzle to be solved by the viewer. Martin and Claire ...

Jefferson in Paris
1995
as Adrienne de Lafayette
His wife having recently died, Thomas Jefferson accepts the post of United States ambassador to pre-revolutionary France, though he finds it difficult...

Farinelli
1994
as Alexandra
The life and career of Italian opera singer Farinelli, considered one of the greatest castrato singers of all time.

Mina Tannenbaum
1994
as Ethel Benegui
The film tells the story of two girls who are of totally different character. They know each other since their childhood and were friends until they b...

The Place of Another
1993
as Florence
Thomas is an up-and-coming actor. His proud and loving father is watching him in a Shakespeare performance. Not long afterwards, his father dies, Thom...
Comment font les gens
1993
as Yvette
Serge and Yvette are on the verge of separating. Hervé and Irene are already separated. Serge will meet Irene and Yvette will meet Hervé. Chance will ...
De force avec d'autres
1993
as Do
Actor and singer on the decline, Sergio, alcoholic, goes adrift. His son, Simon, undertakes to make a film with and on him, to try to bring him back t...

Alisée
1993
as Alisée

Beau fixe
1992
as Frederique
A group of 4 girls decide to revise for their exams together, in the summer vacation. They move from Paris to the countryside, where Valerie's grandmo...

Lover
1992
as Clairvoyante
Marie lives with Antoine, but while he is away she meets Paul, a filmmaker visiting from Canada. Paul is instantly smitten and wants her to marry him....

Snow and Fire
1991
While the Nazis occupied most of France, Jacques (Vincent Perez) has been active in the liberation underground. Now that the Allies have freed a signi...

Van Gogh
1991
as Cathy
After leaving the asylum, Vincent van Gogh settles in the home of Doctor Gachet, where he keeps painting amidst the torments of his failing mental hea...

Great, My Parents Divorce!
1991
as sœur Thomas
Julien, a boy in the sixth grade, was badly depressed by the divorce of his parents. But he soon found that half of the class had come from broken fam...
La Meilleure d'entre nous
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Brighton Storeys
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In Brighton on the South coast of England, sharpened by the sting of sea spray, and mellowed by numinous light, a tight-knit community of oddballs and...
The Stalking Moon
N/A
as Veronique Fournier
Lise
N/A
The WW2 romance drama follows the Giraud family, who take over a hairdressing salon after their father's death. Marie, a French Resistance heroine, ta...
Untitled Christian Dior biopic
N/A
as Raymonde Zehnacker
Sets in Paris in 1947, after the Second World War. Over the course of a decade, Dior forges an empire alongside Raymonde Zehnacker, and falls head ove...
Untitled Christian Dior biopic
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Producer
Sets in Paris in 1947, after the Second World War. Over the course of a decade, Dior forges an empire alongside Raymonde Zehnacker, and falls head ove...