Sylvie
Born: 1883-01-03 in Paris, France
Died: 1970-01-06
Known For: 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.
Filmography
1965
- Belphegor, or The Phantom of the Louvre as Lady Hodwin
- The Shameless Old Lady as Madame Bertini
- Black Humor as La mère Belhomme - segment 1 'La Bestiole" (as Louise Sylvie)
1963
- Nutty, Naughty Chateau as La grand-mère
- Un cas intéressant as The mother
1962
- Family Diary as Grandmother
1960
- Croesus as Delphine
1958
- The Mirror Has Two Faces as Mme Tardivet
1956
- Cinépanorama as Self
- Michael Strogoff as Marfa Strogoff
- Les Truands as Clarisse
1955
- Black Dossier as Mme Bouju
1954
- Ulysses as Euriclea
1953
- Thérèse Raquin as Madame Raquin
1952
- The Little World of Don Camillo as Signora Cristina
- We Are All Murderers as Laetitia Bollini
- Forbidden Fruit as Madame Pellegrin mère
1951
- Under the Paris Sky as Mademoiselle Perrier
1950
- God Needs Men as Coise Karbacen
1949
- White Paws as Maurice's mother
- Tous les deux as Mrs. Gendron
- Two Loves as Mrs. Vincent
1948
- Stolen Affections as Mademoiselle Barge
1947
- Coïncidences as Amélie
- Mirror as The nun
- Passionnelle as La baronne de Marsannes
1946
- The Idiot as Madame Ivolvine
- Land Without Stars as Madame Nogret
- One Does Not Die That Way as Suzanne Bouvier
- Mensonges as Agnès Leroux at 8
1945
- La Route du bagne
- Father Goriot as Mademoiselle Michonneau
1944
- The Traveler Without Luggage as Madame Renaud
- The Island of Love as 'La Strega', fortune-teller
1943
- Le Corbeau as La mère du cancéreux
- Marie-Martine as Maurice's mother
- Angels of Sin as Prioress
- L'homme sans nom as Madame Ourdebey
1941
- Montmartre on the Seine as Madame Courtin
- Paris Romance
1940
- Comedy of Happiness as Madame Marie
1939
- The End of the Day as Madame Tusini
- Pasha's Wives as Safèle, the mother
1938
- The Lafarge Case as Adélaîde Lafarge
- The Curtain Rises as Clémence
1937
- Life Dances On as Gaby - La maîtresse de Thierry
1935
- Crime and Punishment as Catherine Ivanovna
1922
- Roger la Honte as Henriette Laroque
1917
- Le Coupable as Louise Rameau
1913
- Germinal as Catherine