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.
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Full filmography
- Cinépanorama (1956) as Self
- Ulysses (1954) as Euriclea
- Belphegor, or The Phantom of the Louvre (1965) as Lady Hodwin
- Black Dossier (1955) as Mme Bouju
- Le Corbeau (1943) as La mère du cancéreux
- Thérèse Raquin (1953) as Madame Raquin
- The Little World of Don Camillo (1952) as Signora Cristina
- Michael Strogoff (1956) as Marfa Strogoff
- Croesus (1960) as Delphine
- Mirror (1947) as The nun
- We Are All Murderers (1952) as Laetitia Bollini
- Family Diary (1962) as Grandmother
- The Mirror Has Two Faces (1958) as Mme Tardivet
- White Paws (1949) as Maurice's mother
- Angels of Sin (1943) as Prioress
- The Traveler Without Luggage (1944) as Madame Renaud
- The End of the Day (1939) as Madame Tusini
- Nutty, Naughty Chateau (1963) as La grand-mère
- Life Dances On (1937) as Gaby - La maîtresse de Thierry
- Forbidden Fruit (1952) as Madame Pellegrin mère
- Passionnelle (1947) as La baronne de Marsannes
- Crime and Punishment (1935) as Catherine Ivanovna
- Under the Paris Sky (1951) as Mademoiselle Perrier
- Les Truands (1956) as Clarisse