"Elsa Zylberstein"
Elsa Zylberstein (born 16 October 1968) is a French film, TV, and stage actress. After studying drama, Zylberstein began her film career in 1989, and has appeared in more than 60 films. She won the César Award for Best Supporting Actress for I've Loved You So Long (2008).
Zylberstein was born Elsa Florence Zylbersztejn in Paris to an Ashkenazi Polish father, Albert Zylberstein, and a Catholic mother. Her father is a physicist. Zylberstein felt both Jewish and Christian; now she is "attracted to Buddhist rites". She has practised classical dance since her childhood. After a Baccalauréat A3, she began university and studied English, but she was strongly attracted to artistic pursuits. She was in the same class as Francis Huster at the Cours Florent.
In 1991, Elsa Zylberstein appeared in Van Gogh directed by Maurice Pialat. In 1992, she won the Michel Simon Prize and the first of her three nominations for the César Award for Most Promising Actress. In 1993, she played a student in Beau fixe, and won the Prix Romy Schneider.
She inspired young directors such as Pascale Bailly, Diane Bertrand and especially Martine Dugowson, who offered her the lead role alongside Romane Bohringer in Mina Tannenbaum (1994). She then appeared in Farinelli, Mr N., and Jefferson in Paris. She played Suzanne Valadon in Lautrec, and then the mistress of the artist, Modigliani, in Modigliani. Zylberstein played a Yiddish singer who falls in love with a gay clarinetist in Man Is a Woman, with Antoine de Caunes. She also gained roles in Time Regained, Love Torn in a Dream, and That Day.
In 2006 she played Mathilde, an Orthodox Jewish woman faced with marriage problems in Little Jerusalem. She also appeared in J'invente rien, based on a novel by Christine Angot. In 2008, she was in two films presented at the Berlin Festival: I've Loved You So Long, with Kristin Scott Thomas, and La Fabrique des sentiments.
Zylberstein dated Antoine de Caunes between 1997 and 2005. Later she dated Georges-Marc Benamou, advisor to French president Nicolas Sarkozy, although she is a staunch supporter of the Socialist Party.
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | Gemma Bovery | Wizzy | |
| 2012 | Lines of Wellington | Sister Cordélia | |
| 2011 | Plan de table | Catherine | |
| Les tribulations d'une caissière | Marie | ||
| JC comme Jésus-Christ | Elsa | ||
| Un baiser papillon | Marie | ||
| 2010 | Roses à crédit | La pharmacienne | TV movie |
| 2009 | La folle histoire d'amour de Simon Eskenazy | Rosalie | |
| Un rique à courir | episode of Myster Mocky présente | ||
| Vénus & Apollon | Angie | TV series 8 episodes | |
| La double inconstance | Flaminia | TV movie | |
| 2008 | Nucingen House | Anne-Marie | |
| Nuit de chien | Maria de Souza | ||
| I've Loved You So Long | Léa | ||
| La Fabrique des sentiments | Éloïse | ||
| 2007 | Enfances | La mère d'Ingmar Bergman | |
| 2006 | The Stone Council | Clarisse | |
| Une naissance | La mère | ||
| J'invente rien | Mathilde Mahut | ||
| 2005 | La cloche a sonné | Léa | |
| Little Jerusalem | Mathilde | ||
| Journées froides qui menacent les plantes | |||
| 2004 | Why (Not) Brazil? | Laetitia Masson/Christine Angot | |
| Modigliani | Jeanne Hébuterne | ||
| Loser Takes All! | Angèle | ||
| Tomorrow We Move | Michèle | ||
| 2003 | 3 Blind Mice | Nathalie Cross | |
| That Day | Livia | ||
| Monsieur N. | Albine de Montholon | ||
| 2002 | Ferocious | Zébulon, la conseillère en communication | |
| 2001 | Un ange | Léa Pastore | |
| Les fantômes de Louba | Louba | ||
| Not Afraid, Not Afraid | |||
| 2000 | Love Torn in a Dream | Lucrezia/Jessica/The sultan | |
| Return to Algiers | Pierre Nivel's wife | ||
| 1999 | Time Regained | Rachel | |
| Je veux tout | Eva | ||
| 1998 | Lautrec | Suzanne Valadon | |
| Man Is a Woman | Rosalie Baumann | ||
| 1997 | XXL | Arlette Stern | |
| Metroland | Annick | ||
| Tenue correcte exigée | Lucie | ||
| 1996 | Portraits chinois | Emma | |
| A Saturday on Earth | Claire | ||
| 1995 | Jefferson in Paris | Adrienne de Lafayette | |
| 1994 | Farinelli | Alexandra | |
| Mina Tannenbaum | Ethel Bénégui | ||
| 1993 | La place d'un autre | Florence | |
| Comment font les gens | Yvette | ||
| De force avec d'autres | Do | ||
| 1992 | Beau fixe | Frédérique | |
| Lover | Clairvoyant | ||
| 1991 | La neige et le feu | ||
| Van Gogh | Cathy | ||
| Génial, mes parents divorcent! | La soeur de Thomas | ||
| Alisée | Alisée | ||
| 1989 | Baptême | Gabrielle |
Awards
Prix Michel Simon in 1992
Prix Romy Schneider in 1993
Cesar
1992: Nomination – César Award for Most Promising Actress for Van Gogh
1993: Nomination – César Award for Most Promising Actress for Beau fixe
1995: Nomination – César Award for Most Promising Actress for Mina Tannenbaum
2009: Won – César Award for Best Supporting Actress for I've Loved You So Long
Source : http://en.wikipedia.org/
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