Biography
Sylvie Testud was born on January 17, 1971 in Lyon. Her parents separated when she was two years old. She spent her youth in the Lyon district of Croix-Rousse, raised by her mother, an accountant. In high school, she learned Chinese. Very early fascinated by the cinema, the young girl identifies in particular with the complexed teenager character embodied by Charlotte Gainsbourg in L'Effrontée. Having moved to Paris to study history, she soon embarked on acting by joining the free class at Cours...
Known For
Complete Filmography
Cocorico 2
2026
as Nicole Martin

Jíkuri. Journey to the Land of the Tarahumara
2024
as Mathilde
The life of Rayenari changes when the poet Antonin Artaud arrives to his village seeking the spiritual knowledge of the Tarahumara. Rayenari introduce...

Cocorico
2024
as Nicole Martin
The Bouvier-Sauvages, a large aristocratic family, meet the much more modest Martin family when their children's wedding is announced. For the occasio...

Marinette
2023
as Régine Pierre, Saint-Memmie coach
Based on the biography Ne jamais rien lâcher, the script traces the career of Marinette Pichon over three decades. Born in 1975, she was the pioneer o...

Des mains en or
2023
as Rose
Philippe is a well-known writer, whose life was going smoothly: a surgeon wife, a circle of high-ranking friends, a Parisian mansion... And above all,...

The Grand Restaurant IV
2022
For this new year, Pierre, the director of the Grand Restaurant is thinking big to try to get the famous star from the famous Michalon guide! And for ...

Maman, ne me laisse pas m'endormir
2022
as Sophie
Juliette discovers that her teenage son, whom she thought was flourishing, is in reality undermined by a deep malaise and that he has become dangerous...

Maman, ne me laisse pas m'endormir
2022
Director
Juliette discovers that her teenage son, whom she thought was flourishing, is in reality undermined by a deep malaise and that he has become dangerous...

Simone: Woman of the Century
2022
as Marceline Rozenberg (1968 - 1979)
Simone Veil's life story through the pivotal events of Twentieth Century. Her childhood, her political battles, her tragedies. An intimate and epic po...

Tout le monde savait
2022
as Valérie Bacot

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

Flashback
2021
as Olympe de Gouges
A female lawyer travels back in time and crosses paths with other women in history who fought for women's rights.

L'Heureux Stratagème
2021
as La Comtesse

The Grand Restaurant III
2021
as The nymphomaniac's friend
He had opened his Great Restaurant twice, in 2010 and 2011, as part of an entertainment broadcast on France 2. Pierre Palmade “reopens it after work” ...

I Love You Coiffure
2020
as Geneviève (segment "L'Addition")
Liliane and Maud are twin sisters. The first is a modest provincial hairdresser while the second leads the great life in Paris. They both fight over t...

Meet the Malawas
2019
as Nathalie Dulac
A news anchor, a comedian, an actress, and a soccer player with big egos have to travel across the globe to meet the Malawa tribe for a TV show.

Disclaimer
2019
as Maïté
Since his sensational arrival at the head of the 20 Hours, Cédric Saint Guérande, known as "CSG" is THE favorite presenter of the French. His insolent...

Quand sort la recluse
2019
as le lieutenant Froissy
After three elderly men are bitten by spiders, everyone assumes that their deaths are tragic accidents. But at police headquarters in Paris, Inspector...

Wide Load
2019
as Jennifer
This is the story of a guy who goes too fast and a big guy who is too slow. Foster meets Taupin. All this would be trivial if one of them had a scary ...

Defiant Souls
2019
as Enriqueta Faber / Enrique Faber
Santiago de Cuba, January 19th, 1819. Coming from Lausanne, Enrique Faber, a Swiss doctor and surgeon, arrives on the island, a Spanish province, hopi...

Suspiria
2018
as Miss Griffith
A darkness swirls at the center of a world-renowned dance company, one that will engulf the artistic director, an ambitious young dancer, and a grievi...

Deux gouttes d'eau
2018
as Valérie Laforge
A woman's dead body is found in her apartment on a winter morning. All the evidence points to her fiancé. But he has an identical twin brother. The de...
Fan Club
2018
as Anna

A New Girl in Paris!
2018
as Amandine
Tamara has been separated from Diego for two years. She finally leaves home to live the student adventure in Paris with his girlfriend Sam. In a galle...

Kings for a Day
2018
as Val
A wannabe actor must chose between his passion and his father, a crook.

Final Portrait
2017
as Annette Giacometti
Paris, 1964. The Swiss sculptor and painter Alberto Giacometti, one of the most accomplished and respected artists of his generation, asks his friend,...

Wedding Unplanned
2017
as Clarisse
When she discovers a wedding planer's business card, Alexia instantly says, "YES" to Mathias unaware that it belongs to his mistress. The groom is now...

Mörderische Stille
2017
as Elena
A corpse is found in the Bay of Wilhelmshaven. It soon becomes clear that the dead man was an officer in the Dutch KFOR troops in Kosovo. During his i...

Tamara
2016
as Amandine
Tamara, 15, complexed with her curves, decided its entry into second to get rid of the label of "big". To shut up the gossip, she made a bet with her ...

The Exchange Student
2016
as Eloïse
Malo and Stéphane are two students who are kind of losers and have just started high school. Their plan to become popular: to host a German exchange s...

The Visitors: Bastille Day
2016
as Charlotte de Robespierre
Stuck in the corridors of time, Godefroy de Montmirail and his faithful servant Jacquouille are projected to a time of profound political and social u...

Arrête ton cinéma !
2016
as Sybille
Sybille, an accomplished actress, is given the chance to direct a film based on her own screenplay. Everything seems to go well at first. Her producer...

Arrête ton cinéma !
2016
Novel, Screenplay
Sybille, an accomplished actress, is given the chance to direct a film based on her own screenplay. Everything seems to go well at first. Her producer...

Too Close to the Sun
2015
as Sophie Picard
A magistrate investigating a fraud case discovers the woman is the biological mother of her adopted child. Instead of recusing herself, the magistrate...

Thanks to my Friends
2015
as Stéphane Brunge
A man in his mid 30's reevaluates his life and priorities after he met someone from his past.

Spiderwebhouse
2015
as Sabine
When 12-year-old Jonas’ mother leaves to “fight her demons”, he steps up as head of the household, becoming the unofficial guardian to his younger sib...

Gad Elmaleh - Le Big Show
2015
as Self

Two Women
2014
as Elisaveta Bogdanovna
A headstrong young woman is married to land baron. Her feelings for her son's tutor becomes a complex web of unrequited love.

Ceux qui dansent sur la tête
2014
as Catherine
Dance drama playing on a dairy farm, starring two 19-year-old friends Syl and Frenzy who live for breakdancing. The friendship comes under pressure du...

Papa Was Not a Rolling Stone
2014
as Nadiège
Stéphanie grew up with an absent mother and a brutal stepfather. One day, she knows, she'll leave the city to live the life she's always dreamed of.

French Women
2014
as Sam
A story about 11 girls living in Paris. Each of them has its own problems: career, love life, children. Every girl has their complexes and virtues. Th...

24 Days
2014
as Brigitte Farell
When Ilan Halimi is kidnapped for ransom because Jewish and supposedly rich, his family and the police start a race against time to save him from the ...

96 heures
2014
as Marion Reynaud
Carré is the boss of the BRB (Brigade for the Repression of Banditry). 3 years earlier, he arrested a big mobster, Kancel. Today, thanks to an extract...

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

My Name Is Hmmm...
2013
as La mère de Céline
Céline, 11, meets Peter, 40. Together they go on a "luminous journey" in his beautiful red truck. She, escaping her desperate and incestuous father; h...

Les Déferlantes
2013
as Louise
Holed up in a small Normandy town, Louise hides from her ghosts as she looks after grumpy old Theo, the retired lighthouse keeper who shares her passi...

For a Woman
2013
as Anne
After the death of her mother, Anne makes a shocking discovery: an old photograph casts doubt on her origins and leads her to discover a mysterious un...

A Song For Mama
2013
as Sylvie
With their beloved mother only a few days to live, her children decide to give her a surprising parting gift: bring Dave, a lifelong fan, to her bedsi...

Roxana's Hands
2013
as Roxana Orlac
Roxana Orlac, a famous violinist, loses the use of her hands in a terrible lift accident. Her career as a virtuoso seems to be over until Professor Ch...

Max
2013
as Nina
Max is 6 years old. She lives with her dad Toni, a small time crook with a golden heart. For Xmas, Max offers him Rose, a call-girl found on the stree...

Another Woman's Life
2012
Director, Writer
When the fun loving Marie sets her eyes on brooding comic book artist Paul, it sets off the kind of romantic sparks that quickly culminate in the bedr...

Rebellion
2011
as Chantal Legorjus
April 1988, Ouvéa Island, New Caledonia. 30 gendarmes are taken hostage by a group of Kanak freedom fighters. 300 soldiers are sent from France to re-...

The Night Clerk
2011
as Sylvie Poncet
Frédéric, a young man with a troubled past, has the good fortune to be given a job in a luxurious mountain hotel. When one of the hotel guests disapp...

L'Amour, la Mort, les Fringues
2011
They stick to our skin and soul, our clothes. We believe we buy them, they own us. Warning ! these rags are traitors: far from dressing us they expose...

The Rebel, Louise Michel
2010
as Louise Michel
A fiercely active Communard, Louise Michel is condemned for taking arms against Bismarck. Along with thousands of other revolutionaries, she is deport...

Mumu
2010
as Mumu
The story a rescue, the rescue of a bad brat's life in the post-WWII period. In 1947, Roger reaches 11 years old. He's a kid badly loved, mischievous ...

The Round Up
2010
as Bella Zygler
A faithful retelling of the 1942 "Vel' d'Hiv Roundup" and the events surrounding it.

Sentiments provisoires
2010
as Hélène
A young woman announces to the man she has lived with for ten years that she is leaving him ... and that she is leaving him for his best friend. But ...

Sisters
2009
as Sybille adulte
Lyon, France in 1970s, Sibylle, Corinne, and Georgette are sisters who share everything, as they live with their Italian mother. Sibylle is the only b...

Sisters
2009
Novel
Lyon, France in 1970s, Sibylle, Corinne, and Georgette are sisters who share everything, as they live with their Italian mother. Sibylle is the only b...

Lucky Luke
2009
as Calamity Jane
Fearless gunslinger, Lucky Luke, is ordered by the President to bring peace to Daisy Town.

Lourdes
2009
as Christine
In order to escape her isolation, wheelchair-bound Christine makes a life changing journey to Lourdes, the iconic site of pilgrimage in the Pyrenees M...

Can't Say No
2009
as Adèle

Vengeance
2009
as Irene Costello
A French chef swears revenge after a violent attack on his daughter's family in Macau, during which her husband and her two children are murdered. To ...

A Happy Man
2009
as Catherine

The Idiot
2008
as Darya Alexeyevna
Nastassia Philippovna finds herself juggling the affections of four men over the course of a single evening. One is her benefactor, the bourgeois Tots...

Sagan
2008
as Françoise Quoirez dite Sagan
France, 1950s. From the Quartier Latin to Saint-Tropez via New York, a young Parisienne becomes the icon of a whole generation. In 1954, 19-year-old F...

The Vanishing Point
2007
as Lucie Audibert
Lucie Audibert, a student of Art History, does research work on Watteau and is certain that a hidden sense that nobody has ever deciphered can be foun...

Arthur Honegger - Jeanne D'Arc Au Bucher
2007
as Jeanne d'Arc
Born Oscar-Arthur Honegger (the first name was never used) in Le Havre, France, he initially studied harmony and violin in Paris, and after a brief pe...

La France
2007
as Camille
During the First World War, Camille (Sylvie Testud), a young woman whose husband is away fighting at the front, receives a short letter of break-up fr...

Eat, for This Is My Body
2007
as Madame
Haiti, a lonely forgotten black island abandoned to its poverty and misery. A white woman, Madame lives in a fantasy in which she helps to teach, insp...

La Vie en Rose
2007
as Simone 'Mômone' Berteaut
From the mean streets of the Belleville district of Paris to the dazzling limelight of New York's most famous concert halls, Edith Piaf's life was a c...

Legacy
2006
as Patricia
Three French hipsters and their translator travel through rural Georgia to claim a remote, ruined castle that one of them has inherited. En route, the...

La vie est à nous !
2005
as Louise Delhomme
Louise and Blanche run L'Etape, a cafe restaurant in a Savoy village. Facing them is Le Virage, run by Lucie and her daughters. The rivalry between th...

Words in Blue
2005
as Clara
Clara is afraid of words. Her daughter, Anna, is afraid of others. Vincent is afraid to grow up. But he won't be afraid to love them.

Victoire
2004
as Victoire
Victoire is sweet, sensitive, nice and understanding. She leads an existence which doesn't leave her much time to wonder.

Cause toujours !
2004
as Léa
This way-offbeat comedy from Gallic director Jeanne Labrune concerns two young French women, best friends Léa and Jacinthe. While Jacinthe develops a ...

Tout pour l'o$eille
2004
as Prune
A bunch of broke guys rob a rich con artist who has embezzled money from a charity.

Tomorrow We Move
2004
as Charlotte
When her mother moves in, the life of a writer gets crowded.
Autour d’hier aujourd’hui et demain (on déménage)
2004
as Self / Charlotte

Labyrinth
2003
as Claude
Psychologist Dr. Brennac is asked by a colleague to help with the case of Claude, a patient on trial for multiple murders. Is Claude really guilty of ...

Dead Man's Memories
2003
as Das Mädchen
A policeman lunching with his daughter is present when a dead body washes up on shore. He investigates, leading him down a twisted and muddled path of...

Only Girls
2003
as Tina
After a shoplifter finds herself unexpectedly released on parole, she pays a call on the judge at her flat. The judge, Carole Rewinsky, does not tell ...

Fear and Trembling
2003
as Amélie
Amélie, a young Belgian woman, having spent her childhood in Japan, decides to return to live there and tries to integrate in the Japanese society. Sh...

A Loving Father
2002
as Virginia
Writer Léo Shepherd lives in rural France together with his daughter Virginia, who manages his affairs. One day Virginia gets a call from the Swedish ...

Life Kills Me
2002
as Myriam
Paul is a smart, university educated Frenchman of North African ancestry. He's a smooth talker, but he can't seem to get a job worthy of his skills. H...
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...
Stolen Tangos
2002
as Alice / Paula
In Paris, a young Argentine screenwriter attempts to escape his daily routine through a fictional story set in Argentina. This attracts the attention ...

Women or Children First
2002
as Virginie
Tom, a Spaniard, is married to Sylvie and lives a quiet but a bit boring life in the Britanny countryside (west of France). Trouble comes when Tom ex ...

A Moment of Happiness
2002
as L'institutrice
Philippe, 25, arrives one morning in Arcachon, where his sister lives. He is a young man with no ties, someone people easily confide in. He works seas...

Everyman's Feast
2002
as Sophie
Austrian television director Fritz Lehner makes his feature debut with the big-budget drama Jedermann's Fest, based on the 1911 play by Hugo von Hofma...

Les acteurs anonymes
2001
as Self (uncredited)
Nine comedians meet at the Acteurs Anonymes, a rehab center for acting, lost in the heart of Aveyron.

I’m Going Home
2001
as Ariel
The comfortable daily routines of aging Parisian actor Gilbert Valence, 76, are suddenly shaken when he learns that his wife, daughter, and son-in-law...

The Château
2001
as Isabelle
Two brothers go to France to claim the chateau they have inherited.
Julies Geist
2001
as Julia

The Dark Room
2000
as Azalaïs
In 14th-century France, Aliénor breaks with the codes governing girls’ behavior and does as she wishes. The King of France grants her the hand of her ...

Murderous Maids
2000
as Christine Papin
Based on the true story of two chambermaids of 1930s France who murdered their employer and her daughter.

The Captive
2000
as Ariane
Ariane and Simon met down by the water. Simon has managed to prize Ariane away from her friends, a bunch of free and arrogant girls, and move her into...

Bad Connection
2000
as Laurence
Paris is being rocked by a wave of bomb blasts. Stuck in a video game, Sadim calls the players helpline from a phone booth. Laurence takes his call an...
Scénarios sur la drogue
2000
as Segment "Lucie"

Gigantic
1999
Thanks
The Hamburg friends Walter, Ricco and Floyd take each day as it comes between the estates of tower blocks and fast food restaurants. All three are in ...

In Heaven
1999
as Valeska
I Heaven's plot revolves around three friends with personal ambitions who must face the less pleasant aspects of reality. The story is told from the p...

Annaluise & Anton
1999
as Laurence
Luise, called Pünktchen, and Anton are closest of friends. Being the daughter of a wealthy surgeon, young Pünktchen lives in a great house. Her mother...

Karnaval
1999
as Béa
Karnaval is set against a backdrop of intolerance and hostility in the gloomy Northern French city of Dunkirk. The story is set during carnival time, ...

Marée haute
1999
She worked all summer in a small restaurant on a Normandy beach. It's the end of the season, season of work, season of love ; he dumped her, in any ca...

The Misadventures of Margaret
1998
as Young Nun
A timid, insecure popular author with an overly-attentive professor husband decide to write an erotic novel. With encouragement from her sister and a ...

Sentimental Education
1998
as Julia
The story revolves around the lives of a group of international fashion models, focusing on the main character, Fabrice. The film examines the hollown...

Fire in Paradise
1997
as Esther
On her honeymoon on a ship the daughter of a rich plant owner realizes that she's not happy with her marriage. She meets a poor woman on the way to me...

Beyond Silence
1996
as Lara
Beyond Silence is about a family and a young girl’s coming of age story. This German film looks into the lives of the deaf and at a story about the lo...

Those Were the Days
1995
as Sylvie
The grueling, emotionally torturous world of French preparatory schools provides the framework for this mystery. The deliberately rigorous courses are...
Éternelles
1994
as Nathalie
20 years old Denis is a mason for his father's small business. One day, his grand-mother won't wake up anymore.

The Story of a Boy Who Wanted to Be Kissed
1994
as Girl at party offering food
Raoul is a 20 years old student in Paris. Girls are not interested in him, though he is good-looking. He wonders why. Raoul does not look for a great ...

Marie's Song
1994
as Marie
Marie is an adolescent woman who lives in Prussia in 1813 with her mother, a countess. They live in a palace watching the path of history from a far p...
Tout un poème
N/A
Elles deux
N/A
as Sandrine
Où vont les âmes?
N/A
Before resorting to assisted death, an 18-year-old girl summons her two sisters, who are still traumatized by the actions of their father, convicted o...
Tout un poème
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Director, Screenplay