Elsa Zylberstein

Elsa Zylberstein

1968-10-16 Paris, France 93 Credits

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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Cycle of Time

2025

as Hélène

Acting

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

Natacha (Almost) Air Hostess

2025

as Colette

5.7
Acting

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

At the End of the Day

2024

as Léa

6.0
Acting

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

Tout sauf l’ennui

2023

as Elsa Zylberstein

6.0
Acting
Club Zero

Club Zero

2023

as Elsa's Mother

5.7
Acting

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

Coup de Chance

2023

as Caroline Blanc

6.2
Acting

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

The Madness Express

2023

as Madeleine

4.1
Acting

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

Simone: Woman of the Century

2022

as Simone Veil (1968 - 2006)

7.9
Acting

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 !

Champagne !

2022

as Romane

5.2
Acting

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

Romy : 40 ans après, ultimes confidences

2022

as Self

6.0
Acting

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

Shoot to Live

2022

as Self

6.2
Acting

A documentary on filmmaker Claude Lelouch, following him over seven years.

Bigbug

Bigbug

2022

as Alice Barelli

5.3
Acting

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

Love Is Better Than Life

2022

as Elsa

5.3
Acting

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

Tout nous sourit

2021

as Audrey Pottier

5.8
Acting

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?

Isn't She Lovely?

2020

as Emma

5.9
Acting

A couple of parents get in over their heads when they decide to use Scandinavian alternative teaching methods for their teenager.

Waiting for Anya

Waiting for Anya

2020

as Maman

6.2
Acting

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

I Wish Someone Were Waiting for Me Somewhere

2020

as Héléna

6.2
Acting

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

Selfie

2020

as Bettina

5.2
Acting

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

An Irrepressible Woman

2020

as Janot Reichenbach

5.3
Acting

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

Dance of Chance

2019

as Noémie

4.2
Acting

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

Bel Canto

2018

as Edith Thibault

5.4
Acting

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

Rolling to You

2018

as Marie, Jocelyn's secretary

6.5
Acting

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

The Human Voice

2018

as Elle

Acting

A woman’s last phone conversation with her lover, who now loves someone else.

With Open Arms

With Open Arms

2017

as Daphné Fougerole

5.3
Acting

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

Everyone's Life

2017

as La comtesse

4.6
Acting

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

A Bag of Marbles

2017

as Anna

7.8
Acting

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

The No-Job Agency

2016

as Cathy Begin

4.7
Acting

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

Un + une

2015

as Anna Hamon

5.9
Acting

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

The Price of Desire

2015

as Romaine Brooks

2.3
Acting

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

Gemma Bovery

2014

as Wizzy

6.1
Acting

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

À votre bon cœur, mesdames

2013

as Sister Blandine

5.0
Acting

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

Lines of Wellington

2012

as Irmã Cordélia

5.8
Acting

Passionate romance, brutal treachery, and selfless nobility are set against the background of Napoleon’s 1810 invasion of Portugal.

Plan de table

Plan de table

2012

as Catherine

5.7
Acting

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

Play It Like Godard

2012

as Elsa Zylberstein

4.1
Acting

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

Les Tribulations d'une caissière

2011

as Marie

5.1
Acting

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

A Butterfly Kiss

2011

as Marie

5.0
Acting

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

Roses on Credit

2010

as La pharmacienne

4.7
Acting

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

He's My Girl

2009

as Rosalie

5.0
Acting

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

La Double Inconstance

2009

as Flaminia

8.0
Acting

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

Un risque à courir

2009

6.0
Acting

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

Nucingen House

2009

as Anne-Marie

6.3
Acting

Surreal gothic comedy about a gambler who wins a strange Chilean mansion and takes his frail wife there.

This Night

This Night

2009

6.2
Acting

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

I've Loved You So Long

2008

as Léa

7.3
Acting

A woman struggles to interact with her family and find her place in society after spending fifteen years in prison.

The Feelings Factory

The Feelings Factory

2008

as Eloïse Hautier

4.8
Acting

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

Enfances

2007

as Ingmar Bergman's mother

5.6
Acting

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

The Stone Council

2006

as Clarisse

4.4
Acting

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

J'invente rien

2006

as Mathilde

5.0
Acting

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

My Dad Is Into Terrorism

2006

7.0
Acting

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

La Petite Jérusalem

2005

as Mathilde

5.5
Acting

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

La cloche a sonné

2005

as Léa

5.3
Acting

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?

Why (Not) Brazil?

2004

as la réalisatrice Laetitia Masson / Christine

4.1
Acting

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!

Loser Takes All!

2004

as Angèle

5.5
Acting

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

Modigliani

2004

as Jeanne Hébuterne

7.1
Acting

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

Tomorrow We Move

2004

as Michèle

5.8
Acting

When her mother moves in, the life of a writer gets crowded.

Three Blind Mice

Three Blind Mice

2003

as Nathalie

3.9
Acting

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

That Day

2003

as Livia

5.6
Acting

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.

Monsieur N.

2003

as Albine de Montholon

6.3
Acting

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

Jean Moulin

2002

as Antoinette

Acting

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

Acting

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

Féroce

2002

as Zébulon - la conseillère en communication

4.8
Acting

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

Angel

2001

as Léa Pastore

3.4
Acting

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

Les fantômes de Louba

2001

as Louba

3.5
Acting

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

Not Afraid, Not Afraid

2001

Acting

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

Love Torn in a Dream

2000

as Lucrezia / Jessica / la Sultane

7.5
Acting

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

Return to Algiers

2000

as Pierre Nivel's wife

6.8
Acting

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

I Want It All

1999

as Éva

5.4
Acting

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

The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Adventures in the Secret Service

1999

as Telephone Girl

4.8
Acting

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

Time Regained

1999

as Rachel

6.3
Acting

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

Lautrec

1998

as Suzanne Valadon

5.0
Acting

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

Man Is a Woman

1998

as Rosalie Baumann

5.7
Acting

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

XXL

1997

as Arlette Stern

4.0
Acting

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

Metroland

Metroland

1997

as Annick

5.8
Acting

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

Proper Attire Required

1997

as Lucie

5.9
Acting

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

Shadow Play

1996

as Emma

7.4
Acting

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

A Saturday on Earth

1996

as Claire

5.7
Acting

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

Jefferson in Paris

1995

as Adrienne de Lafayette

5.1
Acting

His wife having recently died, Thomas Jefferson accepts the post of United States ambassador to pre-revolutionary France, though he finds it difficult...

Farinelli

Farinelli

1994

as Alexandra

6.6
Acting

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

Mina Tannenbaum

Mina Tannenbaum

1994

as Ethel Benegui

6.2
Acting

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

The Place of Another

1993

as Florence

5.7
Acting

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

Acting

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

5.0
Acting

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

Alisée

1993

as Alisée

Acting
Beau fixe

Beau fixe

1992

as Frederique

4.3
Acting

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

Lover

1992

as Clairvoyante

5.4
Acting

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

Snow and Fire

1991

4.3
Acting

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

Van Gogh

1991

as Cathy

6.8
Acting

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!

Great, My Parents Divorce!

1991

as sœur Thomas

5.7
Acting

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

N/A

Acting

Brighton Storeys

N/A

Acting

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

Acting

Lise

N/A

Acting

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

Acting

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

N/A

Producer

Producing

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...