Portrait of Sylvie

Sylvie

Acting

Biography

Louise Pauline Mainguené, known as Sylvie (3 January 1883 – 5 January 1970), was a French actress. The daughter of a sailor and a teacher, Sylvie entered an acting conservatory where she won a class comedy award unanimously. She started her professional career in 1903 and she earned her first success with The Old Heidelberg. She first appeared in French silent films. She was an actress known for Don Camillo (1952), The Shameless Old Lady (1965), and Le Corbeau (1943). She was born on 3 January 1883 in Paris and died on 5 January 1970 in Compiègne, France. She won the first National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actress in 1966 for her performance in The Shameless Old Lady. Source: Article "Sylvie (actress)" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

Born: January 3, 1883

Place of Birth: Paris, France

Filmography

1965
Black Humor

as La mère Belhomme - segment 1 'La Bestiole" (as Louise Sylvie)

1965
The Shameless Old Lady

as Madame Bertini

1963
Nutty, Naughty Chateau

as La grand-mère

1963
Un cas intéressant

as The mother

1962
Family Diary

as Grandmother

1960
Croesus

as Delphine

1958
1956
Michael Strogoff

as Marfa Strogoff

1956
Les Truands

as Clarisse

1956
1955
Black Dossier

as Mme Bouju

1954
Ulysses

as Euriclea

1953
Thérèse Raquin

as Madame Raquin

1952
Forbidden Fruit

as Madame Pellegrin mère

1952
We Are All Murderers

as Laetitia Bollini

1952
1951
Under the Paris Sky

as Mademoiselle Perrier

1950
God Needs Men

as Coise Karbacen

1949
White Paws

as Maurice's mother

1949
Tous les deux

as Mrs. Gendron

1949
Two Loves

as Mrs. Vincent

1948
Stolen Affections

as Mademoiselle Barge

1947
Coïncidences

as Amélie

1947
Passionnelle

as La baronne de Marsannes

1947
Mirror

as The nun

1946
Mensonges

as Agnès Leroux at 8

1946
One Does Not Die That Way

as Suzanne Bouvier

1946
The Idiot

as Madame Ivolvine

1946
Land Without Stars

as Madame Nogret

1945
Father Goriot

as Mademoiselle Michonneau

1944
The Island of Love

as 'La Strega', fortune-teller

1944
1943
Le Corbeau

as La mère du cancéreux

1943
Angels of Sin

as Prioress

1943
Marie-Martine

as Maurice's mother

1943
L'homme sans nom

as Madame Ourdebey

1941
Montmartre on the Seine

as Madame Courtin

1940
Comedy of Happiness

as Madame Marie

1939
The End of the Day

as Madame Tusini

1939
Pasha's Wives

as Safèle, the mother

1938
The Curtain Rises

as Clémence

1938
The Lafarge Case

as Adélaîde Lafarge

1937
Life Dances On

as Gaby - La maîtresse de Thierry

1917
Le Coupable

as Louise Rameau

1913
Germinal

as Catherine