Sylvie Testud
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Sylvie Testud has been in the trade long enough to be called a veteran actress with the unglamorous consistency that long careers are made of. Among all the titles, 'Suspiria' is the one that reached the widest audience. 'La Vie en Rose' is the other credit that tends to come up. The trail of credits goes back as far as 1994. 100 credits across 32 years is a rate most careers never reach.
Sylvie Testud
89 Movies
11 Series
Sylvie Testud has been in the trade long enough to be called a veteran actress with the unglamorous consistency that long careers are made of. Among all the titles, 'Suspiria' is the one that reached the widest audience. 'La Vie en Rose' is the other credit that tends to come up. The trail of credits goes back as far as 1994. 100 credits across 32 years is a rate most careers never reach.
Movies
Plays Nicole Martin
Cocorico 2
2026
Plays Miss Griffith
Suspiria
2018
Plays Nicole Martin
Cocorico
2024
Plays Simone 'Mômone' Berteaut
La Vie en Rose
2007
Plays Charlotte de Robespierre
The Visitors: Bastille Day
2016
Plays Bella Zygler
The Round Up
2010
Plays Nathalie Dulac
Meet the Malawas
2019
Plays Irene Costello
Vengeance
2009
Plays Valeska
In Heaven
1999
Plays Annette Giacometti
Final Portrait
2017
Plays Calamity Jane
Lucky Luke
2009
Plays Sophie Picard
Too Close to the Sun
2015
Plays Mumu
Mumu
2010
Plays Sylvie
LOL 2.0: Anne’s Golden Hour
2026
Plays Brigitte Farell
24 Days
2014
Plays Jennifer
Wide Load
2019
Plays Patricia
Legacy
2006
Writer
Plays Sybille
Arrête ton cinéma !
2016
Plays Clarisse
Wedding Unplanned
2017
Plays Lolita
À votre bon cœur, mesdames
2013
Plays Claude
Labyrinth
2003
Plays Ariane
The Captive
2000
Plays Marceline Rozenberg (1968 - 1979)
Simone: Woman of the Century
2022
Plays Amandine
Tamara
2016
Plays Marion Reynaud
96 heures
2014
Plays Amélie
Fear and Trembling
2003
Plays Françoise Quoirez dite Sagan
Sagan
2008
Plays Sophie
Everyman's Feast
2002
Plays Régine Pierre, Saint-Memmie coach
Marinette
2023
Plays Sam
French Women
2014
Plays Mathilde
Jíkuri. Journey to the Land of the Tarahumara
2024
Plays Laurence
Bad Connection
2000
Plays Nina
Max
2013
Plays Myriam
Life Kills Me
2002
Plays Ariel
I’m Going Home
2001
Plays Béa
Karnaval
1999
Plays Laurence
Annaluise & Anton
1999
Plays Victoire
Victoire
2004
Plays Eloïse
The Exchange Student
2016
Plays Val
Kings for a Day
2018
Plays Amandine
A New Girl in Paris!
2018
Plays Christine
Lourdes
2009
Plays Sabine
Spiderwebhouse
2015
Plays Anne
For a Woman
2013
Plays Lara
Beyond Silence
1996
Plays Elisaveta Bogdanovna
Two Women
2014
Plays Stéphanie
Where Souls Go
2025
Plays Esther
Fire in Paradise
1997
Plays Young Nun
The Misadventures of Margaret
1998
Plays Rose
Des mains en or
2023
TV Shows
Plays Odile
Deutsch-Les-Landes
2018
Plays Isabelle
Runaway
2021
Plays Charlotte de Savoye
Maximilian and Marie De Bourgogne
2017
Plays Hélène
Eden
2019
Plays Blanche
Knok
2024
Plays Alice Wagner
Fear by the Lake
2020
Plays Capitaine Caroline Flament
A Case for Kin
2023
Plays major de gendarmerie Marie Hermann
What Pauline Is Not Telling You
2022
Plays Froissy
Sur la dalle
2024
Plays le lieutenant Froissy
Quand sort la recluse
2019
Plays Salomé Revel
Capitaine Marleau
2015
Latest Trailers
Watch Trailer
Cocorico 2
Full Filmography
Cocorico 2
Nicole Martin
2026
Film
LOL 2.0: Anne’s Golden Hour
Sylvie
2026
Film
A Case for Kin
Capitaine Caroline Flament · 5 episodes
2023–2025
TV
Where Souls Go
Stéphanie
2025
Film
Knok
Blanche · 6 episodes
2024
TV
Sur la dalle
Froissy · 2 episodes
2024
TV
Jíkuri. Journey to the Land of the Tarahumara
Mathilde
2024
Film
Cocorico
Nicole Martin
2024
Film
Marinette
Régine Pierre, Saint-Memmie coach
2023
Film
Photos
Frequently Asked Questions
How old is Sylvie Testud and where are they from?
Sylvie Testud is 55 years old, born on January 17, 1971 in Lyon, Rhône, France.
What are the most famous roles of Sylvie Testud?
Sylvie Testud is best known for roles in Suspiria, La Vie en Rose, The Round Up.
How many movies has Sylvie Testud been in?
Over a 32-year career (since 1994), Sylvie Testud has appeared in 89 movies and 11 TV shows.
What was Sylvie Testud's first movie?
The career of Sylvie Testud began with Marie's Song (1994).
What is Sylvie Testud's most recent movie or series?
Sylvie Testud's most recent release is Cocorico 2, which premiered on April 8, 2026.
What TV shows has Sylvie Testud appeared in?
On television, Sylvie Testud has appeared in Capitaine Marleau, Maximilian and Marie De Bourgogne, Fear by the Lake, Rendez-vous in an Unknown Land.
Sylvie Testud
1971-01-17 · Lyon, Rhône, France
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 Florent and then the Conservatory, where her teachers were Jacques Lassalle and Catherine Hiegel. She made her first screen appearance in 1994 in Couples et amants.
She decided to become an actress during her youth, after having admired actresses in films. She then took acting lessons in Lyon with the actor and director Christian Taponard. In 1989, she moved to Paris to study history, as well as drama lessons in free classes at Cours Florent, then at the National Conservatory of Dramatic Art for three years, with Jacques Lassalle and Catherine Hiegel for teachers.
In the early 1990s, she obtained her first small roles in the cinema, then in feature films such as The Story of the Boy Who Wanted to Be Kissed by Philippe Harel (1994), Le Plus Bel Age..., by Didier Haudepin (1995) or even Love, etc. by Marion Vernoux (1996).
In 1997, Sylvie Testud experienced her first great success at the cinema in Germany with the film Beyond Silence by Caroline Link, for which she learned German, the clarinet and sign language. She is rewarded as best actress by the German Film Prize (the equivalent of the César for best actress). In 1998, she played her first major role in French cinema and enjoyed great success in France with the role of Béa in Karnaval, the first feature film by Thomas Vincent, for which she was nominated for the César for best female hope and received the Michael Simon Prize. She then began an important acting career with a preference for auteur cinema.
In 2000, her performance in La Captive by Chantal Akerman (adaptation of the novel La Prisonnière by Marcel Proust) earned her a nomination as best actress at the European Film Prize. In 2001, she obtained, for her second nomination, the César for best female hope for the remarkable interpretation of Christine Papin, one of the Papin sisters, in Les Blessures assassines by Jean-Pierre Denis, based on a news item from 1933.