Sylvie Testud
Sylvie Testud (born January 17, 1971 in Lyon ) is a French actress .
Life
Sylvie Testud became famous in 1996 in the role of Lara in Caroline Link's film Beyond Silence . She played a daughter of deaf parents who fell for music. For this, Testud received the film tape in gold at the 1997 German Film Prize for the best performance.
Three years later she was nominated for the European Film Awards for Best Actress for her role in Die Gefangene (2000) .
In 2004 she received the César for best actress for her role as Amélie in Stupeur et tremblements by Alain Corneau , a film adaptation of the novel With Amazement and Trembling . In 2009 she played the leading role in the film Lourdes , in which she played a young woman suffering from multiple sclerosis who experienced a “miraculous healing” on a pilgrimage to the eponymous French pilgrimage site . This portrayal earned her the European Film Prize . In addition to her native French, Testud speaks fluent Spanish, which earned her the role of Swiss doctor Henriette Faber in the Cuban historical drama "Insumisas".
Testud has also been writing books for a number of years, some of which deal with her life as an actress. After the autobiographical title Il n'y a pas beaucoup d'étoiles ce soir (2003) some novels by Fayard were published by her. She has two children, a son born in 2005 and a daughter born in 2011.
Filmography (selection)
- 1993: Couples et amants
- 1994: Marie's song: I was, I don't know where - Director: Niko von Glasow
- 1996: Beyond Silence
- 1998: In Heaven
- 1999: Pünktchen and Anton
- 2000: The Captive (La Captive)
- 2000: Drug scenes (Scénarios sur la drogue) - Episode: Lucie (episode film)
- 2000: Les blessures assassines - Director: Jean-Pierre Denis
- 2000: Sade - Directed by Benoît Jacquot
- 2001: Julies Geist - Director: Bettina Wilhelm
- 2001: Le château - Director: Jesse Peretz
- 2001: I'm going home (Je rentre à la maison)
- 2002: The Glass View - Director: Markus Heltschl
- 2002: Jedermanns Fest - Director: Fritz Lehner
- 2002: Un moment de bonheur - Director: Antoine Santana
- 2002: Les femmes… ou les enfants d'abord… - Director: Manuel Poirier
- 2002: Tangos volés - Director: Eduardo de Gregorio
- 2002: Love your father (Aime ton père) - Director: Jacob Berger
- 2002: Life kills me (Vivre me tue) - Director: Jean-Pierre Sinapi
- 2003: With amazement and tremors (Stupeur et tremblements) - Director: Alain Corneau
- 2003: Filles uniques - Director: Pierre Jolivet
- 2003: Dédales - Dice for Your Life (Dédales) - Director: René Manzor
- 2004: Tomorrow we're moving (Demain on déménage) - Director: Chantal Akerman
- 2004: Tout pour l'oseille - Director: Bertrand Van Effenterre
- 2004: Cause toujours! - Director: Jeanne Labrune
- 2004: Victoire - Director: Stéphanie Murat
- 2005: Words in Blue (Les mots bleus) - Director: Alain Corneau
- 2005: La vie est à nous! - Directed by Gérard Krawczyk
- 2007: La France - Director: Serge Bozon
- 2007: La vie en rose (La Môme) - Director: Olivier Dahan
- 2007: The Vanishing Point (Ce que mes yeux ont vu)
- 2008: Bonjour Sagan (Sagan)
- 2008: L'idiot - Director: Pierre Léon
- 2009: A Happy Man (Le bonheur de Pierre)
- 2009: Vengeance (復仇 / Fuk sau)
- 2009: Lourdes
- 2009: Lucky Luke (Lucky Luke)
- 2010: The Children of Paris (La rafle)
- 2011: Rebellion (L'ordre et la morale)
- 2013: Stranded (Les Déferlantes) - Director: Éléonore Faucher
- 2014: Two Women - Director: Vera Glagoleva
- 2015: In the Spinnwebhaus - Director: Mara Eibl-Eibesfeldt
- 2016: Murderous Silence - Director: Friedemann Fromm
- 2017: Maximilian - The Game of Power and Love (three-part TV series)
- 2017: Final Portrait
- 2017: Wedding without a plan (Jour J)
- 2018: Suspiria - Director: Luca Guadagnino
- 2018: Tamara: Volume 2
- 2018: Deutsch-Les-Landes - Director: Denis Dercourt
- 2018: Insumisas
- 2019: Eden (Part 1)
- 2019: Eden (part 2)
Book publications
- 2003: Il n'y a pas beaucoup d'étoiles ce soir (autobiography)
- 2005: Le ciel t'aidera (novel)
- 2006: Gamines (novel)
- 2011: Chevalier de l'ordre du mérite (novel)
- 2014: C'est le métier qui rentre (novel)
Web links
- Sylvie Testud in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ EcuRed: Insumisa. Retrieved August 7, 2020 .
- ^ Paris Match, January 26, 2011
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Testud, Sylvie |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | french actress |
DATE OF BIRTH | 17th January 1971 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Lyon , Rhône department , France |