--- name: "Sylvie Testud" canonical: "https://film.one/person/sylvie-testud" fi1m_id: "sylvie-testud" imdb_id: "nm0856500" tmdb_id: 4529 wikidata_id: "Q242526" roles: ["Actor"] born: "17 January 1971" reviewed_on_fi1m: 1 average_as: "actor" average_over: 1 updated: "2026-09-26T03:18:36.406973+00:00" licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL." --- # Sylvie Testud ## Identity Sylvie Testud - **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/sylvie-testud - **Type:** Person - **Fi1m ID:** sylvie-testud - **IMDb ID:** nm0856500 - **TMDB ID:** 4529 - **Wikidata ID:** Q242526 - **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvie_Testud, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q242526, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0856500/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/4529 Actor. Born 17 January 1971 in Lyon, Rhône, France. ## Details - **Work:** Actor - **Born:** 17 January 1971, Lyon, Rhône, France - **Active:** 2000–2007 - **Also known as:** Sylvie Voyer, Sylvie Voyet - **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvie_Testud, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q242526, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0856500/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/4529 ## Biography Sylvie Testud is a French actress born on 17 January 1971 in Lyon. She grew up in the Croix-Rousse district of the city, raised by her mother after her parents separated when she was two. She moved to Paris to study history before training as an actress at the free classes of Cours Florent and then at the Conservatoire national supérieur d'art dramatique, where her teachers included Jacques Lassalle and Catherine Hiegel. Testud made her screen debut in the mid-1990s. Her performance in the German film *Beyond Silence* (1996) brought her early recognition abroad. In France she gained wider notice with roles in *Karnaval* (1998) and as Ariane in Chantal Akerman's *The Captive* (2000). She played Simone 'Mômone' Berteaut in *La Vie en Rose* (2007). She has received two César Awards: Most Promising Actress for *Murderous Maids* (2000) and Best Actress for *Fear and Trembling* (2003). Testud has also worked as a writer and director. *Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.* ## On Fi1m (1) - *The Captive* (2000), Fi1m 72, as Ariane — [page](https://film.one/film/the-captive.md) ## Complete filmography (123) Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page. - *Jíkuri. Journey to the Land of the Tarahumara* (2026), as Mathilde - *Cocorico 2* (2026), as Nicole Martin - *LOL 2.0: Anne’s Golden Hour* (2026), as Sylvie - *Where Souls Go* (2025), as Stéphanie - *Proust and Signs: On Chantal Akerman's "La Captive"* (2025), as archive image - *Sur la dalle* (2024), series, as Froissy - *The Two of Them* (2024), as Sandrine - *Knok* (2024), series, as Blanche - *Cocorico* (2024), as Nicole Martin - *Marinette* (2023), as Régine Pierre · Saint-Memmie coach - *Des mains en or* (2023), as Rose - *A Case for Kin* (2023), series, as Capitaine Caroline Flament - *The Grand Restaurant IV* (2022), Actor - *Maman, ne me laisse pas m'endormir* (2022), as Sophie · Director - *Simone: Woman of the Century* (2022), as Marceline Rozenberg (1968 - 1979) - *Le Figaro La Nuit* (2022), series, Actor - *Tout le monde savait* (2022), as Valérie Bacot - *Champagne !* (2022), as Joanna - *What Pauline Is Not Telling You* (2022), series, as major de gendarmerie Marie Hermann - *Flashback* (2021), as Olympe de Gouges - *L'Heureux Stratagème* (2021), as La Comtesse - *Runaway* (2021), series, as Isabelle - *The Grand Restaurant III* (2021), as The nymphomaniac's friend - *I Love You Coiffure* (2020), as Geneviève (segment "L'Addition") - *Fear by the Lake* (2020), series, as Alice Wagner - *Meet the Malawas* (2019), as Nathalie Dulac - *Disclaimer* (2019), as Maïté - *Eden* (2019), series, as Hélène - *Quand sort la recluse* (2019), as le lieutenant Froissy - *Quand sort la recluse* (2019), series, as le lieutenant Froissy - *Wide Load* (2019), as Jennifer - *Defiant Souls* (2019), as Enriqueta Faber / Enrique Faber - *Deutsch-Les-Landes* (2018), series, as Odile - *Suspiria* (2018), as Miss Griffith - *Deux gouttes d'eau* (2018), as Valérie Laforge - *Fan Club* (2018), as Anna - *A New Girl in Paris!* (2018), as Amandine - *Kings for a Day* (2018), as Val - *Final Portrait* (2017), as Annette Giacometti - *Wedding Unplanned* (2017), as Clarisse - *Maximilian and Marie De Bourgogne* (2017), series, as Charlotte de Savoye - *Mörderische Stille* (2017), as Elena - *Tamara* (2016), as Amandine - *The Exchange Student* (2016), as Eloïse - *The Visitors: Bastille Day* (2016), as Charlotte de Robespierre - *Arrête ton cinéma !* (2016), as Sybille · Novel, Screenplay - *Capitaine Marleau* (2015), series, as Salomé Revel - *Too Close to the Sun* (2015), as Sophie Picard - *Thanks to my Friends* (2015), as Stéphane Brunge - *Spiderwebhouse* (2015), as Sabine - *Two Women* (2014), as Elisaveta Bogdanovna - *Ceux qui dansent sur la tête* (2014), as Catherine - *Papa Was Not a Rolling Stone* (2014), as Nadiège - *French Women* (2014), as Sam - *24 Days* (2014), as Brigitte Farell - *96 heures* (2014), as Marion Reynaud - *À votre bon cœur, mesdames* (2013), as Lolita - *My Name Is Hmmm...* (2013), as La mère de Céline - *Les Déferlantes* (2013), as Louise - *For a Woman* (2013), as Anne - *A Song For Mama* (2013), as Sylvie - *Roxana's Hands* (2013), as Roxana Orlac - *Max* (2013), as Nina - *Another Woman's Life* (2012), Director, Writer - *Rebellion* (2011), as Chantal Legorjus - *The Night Clerk* (2011), as Sylvie Poncet - *L'Amour, la Mort, les Fringues* (2011), Actor - *The Rebel, Louise Michel* (2010), as Louise Michel - *Mumu* (2010), as Mumu - *The Round Up* (2010), as Bella Zygler - *Sentiments provisoires* (2010), as Hélène - *Sisters* (2009), as Sybille adulte · Novel - *Lucky Luke* (2009), as Calamity Jane - *Lourdes* (2009), as Christine - *Can't Say No* (2009), as Adèle - *Vengeance* (2009), as Irene Costello - *A Happy Man* (2009), as Catherine - *The Idiot* (2008), as Darya Alexeyevna - *Sagan* (2008), as Françoise Quoirez dite Sagan - *The Vanishing Point* (2007), as Lucie Audibert - *Arthur Honegger - Jeanne D'Arc Au Bucher* (2007), as Jeanne d'Arc - *La France* (2007), as Camille - *Eat, for This Is My Body* (2007), as Madame - *La Vie en Rose* (2007), as Simone 'Mômone' Berteaut - *Legacy* (2006), as Patricia - *La vie est à nous !* (2005), as Louise Delhomme - *Words in Blue* (2005), as Clara - *Victoire* (2004), as Victoire - *Cause toujours !* (2004), as Léa - *Tout pour l'oseille* (2004), as Prune - *Tomorrow We Move* (2004), as Charlotte - *Labyrinth* (2003), as Claude - *Dead Man's Memories* (2003), as Das Mädchen - *Only Girls* (2003), as Tina - *Fear and Trembling* (2003), as Amélie - *A Loving Father* (2002), as Virginia - *Life Kills Me* (2002), as Myriam - *Stolen Tangos* (2002), as Alice / Paula - *Women or Children First* (2002), as Virginie - *A Moment of Happiness* (2002), as L'institutrice - *Everyman's Feast* (2002), as Sophie - *I’m Going Home* (2001), as Ariel - *The Château* (2001), as Isabelle - *Julies Geist* (2001), as Julia - *The Dark Room* (2000), as Azalaïs - *Murderous Maids* (2000), as Christine Papin - *The Captive* (2000), as Ariane — Fi1m 72, [page](https://film.one/film/the-captive.md) - *Scénarios sur la drogue* (2000), as Segment "Lucie" - *Bad Connection* (2000), as Laurence - *Gigantic* (1999), Thanks - *In Heaven* (1999), as Valeska - *Annaluise & Anton* (1999), as Laurence - *Karnaval* (1999), as Béa - *Marée haute* (1999), Actor - *The Misadventures of Margaret* (1998), as Young Nun - *Sentimental Education* (1998), as Julia - *Fire in Paradise* (1997), as Esther - *Beyond Silence* (1996), as Lara - *Those Were the Days* (1995), as Sylvie - *Éternelles* (1994), as Nathalie - *The Story of a Boy Who Wanted to Be Kissed* (1994), as Girl at party offering food - *Marie's Song* (1994), as Marie - *Tout un poème*, Director, Screenplay ## Gallery - ![Sylvie Testud au festival de Cannes (2018)](https://film.one/media/person/3932144/gallery-24c205c4b75e.jpg) Sylvie Testud au festival de Cannes (2018) — Georges Biard, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4a/Sylvie_Testud_Cannes_2018.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled) - ![Sylvie Testud dans Gamines, un film d'Eleonore Faucher (2008)](https://film.one/media/person/3932144/gallery-04691eb98d26.jpg) Sylvie Testud dans Gamines, un film d'Eleonore Faucher (2008) — Pascal Chantier, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/Sylvie_Testud_2008-08-12_%28cropped%29.jpg/1280px-Sylvie_Testud_2008-08-12_%28cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Pour Maman, ne me laisse pas m'endormir, réalisée par Sylvie Testud. (2022)](https://film.one/media/person/3932144/gallery-1c5e3ac148bf.jpg) Pour Maman, ne me laisse pas m'endormir, réalisée par Sylvie Testud. (2022) — Globetrotteur17... Ici, là-bas ou ailleurs... from La Rochelle, FRANCE, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b4/L%27actrice_et_r%C3%A9alisatrice_Sylvie_Testud_au_Festival_de_la_fiction_de_La_Rochelle-_Charente_Maritime-_France_%2852368699330%29_%28cropped%29.jpg/1280px-L%27actrice_et_r%C3%A9alisatrice_Sylvie_Testud_au_Festival_de_la_fiction_de_La_Rochelle-_Charente_Maritime-_France_%2852368699330%29_%28cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Sylvie Testud](https://film.one/media/person/3932144/gallery-471e043f4157.jpg) Sylvie Testud — Georges Biard, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5a/Sylvie_Testud_2012_La_vie_d%27une_autre.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled) - ![Sylvie Testud](https://film.one/media/person/3932144/gallery-1e9254188309.jpg) Sylvie Testud — Image via TMDB - ![Les Déferlantes (2013)](https://film.one/media/person/3932144/gallery-032093809d26.jpg) Les Déferlantes (2013) — Léo du tilleul, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/de/Sylvie_Testud%2C_Go%C3%A9land.jpg/1280px-Sylvie_Testud%2C_Go%C3%A9land.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Sylvie Testud dans Gamines, un film d'Eleonore Faucher (2008)](https://film.one/media/person/3932144/gallery-1190ff74e796.jpg) Sylvie Testud dans Gamines, un film d'Eleonore Faucher (2008) — Pascal Chantier, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/06/Sylvie_Testud_2.jpg/1280px-Sylvie_Testud_2.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) ## Awards ### Other awards — 4 won, 3 nominated - Officer of Arts and Letters 2016: Officer of Arts and Letters (won) - Knight of the Legion of Honour 2012: Knight of the Legion of Honour (won) - European Film Award for Best Actress 2010: European Film Award for Best Actress (won), for *Lourdes* - César Award for Best Actress 2009: César Award for Best Actress (nominated), for *Sagan* - Knight of the National Order of Merit 2008: Knight of the National Order of Merit (won) - César Award for Best Actress 2004: César Award for Best Actress (nominated), for *Fear and Trembling* - European Film Award for Best Actress 2000: European Film Award for Best Actress (nominated), for *La Captive* *From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.* --- © Fi1m Ltd. 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