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Personal Info

Gender

Female

Birthday

1883-01-03 (142 years old)

Place of Birth

Paris, France

Sylvie

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.

Known For

Acting

1965

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

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

Forbidden Fruit as Madame Pellegrin mère
We Are All Murderers as Laetitia Bollini

1951

Under the Paris Sky as Mademoiselle Perrier

1950

God Needs Men as Coise Karbacen

1949

Tous les deux as Mrs. Gendron
White Paws as Maurice's mother
Two Loves as Mrs. Vincent

1948

Stolen Affections as Mademoiselle Barge

1947

Mirror as The nun
Coïncidences as Amélie
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

Father Goriot as Mademoiselle Michonneau

1944

The Island of Love as 'La Strega', fortune-teller

1943

Le Corbeau as La mère du cancéreux
L'homme sans nom as Madame Ourdebey
Angels of Sin as La prieure
Marie-Martine as la mère de Maurice

1941

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 Curtain Rises as Clémence
The Lafarge Case as Adélaîde Lafarge

1937

Life Dances On as Gaby - La maîtresse de Thierry

1922

Roger la Honte as Henriette Laroque

1917

Le Coupable as Louise Rameau

1913

Germinal as Catherine