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Elsa Zylberstein

Highest Rated: 89% I've Loved You So Long (2008)

Lowest Rated: 4% Modigliani (2004)

Birthday: Oct 16, 1968

Birthplace: Paris, France

An actress of smart, striking beauty, with bright hazel eyes and angular features, the Parisian-born Elsa Zylberstein is known for portraying frank honesty and tender sexuality. She began appearing in movies in the late 1980s, soon making her first mark on international cinema as the lover of a famous post-Impressionist painter in the bleakly raw French biopic "Van Gogh" in 1991. Inspired by her fearless approach and majestic grace (she's studied classical dance since childhood), filmmakers cast her in further movie biographies such as "Modigliani," in which she again played the mistress of a tortured artist, and "Farinelli," a Best Foreign Film Oscar nominee about the ambisexual opera castrato Carlo Broschi. She remains a dependably passionate leading lady in conflicted or outright forbidden romances well into the 2000s. As such, she garnered particularly high praise for her performance as a Jewish Frenchwoman who falls for a Muslim co-worker in the gamely acted melodrama "Little Jerusalem." In '08, she starred opposite Kristin Scott Thomas in a somber tale of life after prison, "I've Loved You So Long," resulting in a Best Supporting Actress win at the venerated César Awards.

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Highest-Rated Movies

89% 85% I've Loved You So Long
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83% 77% Coup de Chance
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83% 85% A Bag of Marbles Watchlist
77% 67% Van Gogh
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73% 33% Portraits Chinois
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72% 72% Time Regained
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71% 73% Simone: Woman of the Century Watchlist
70% 59% Monsieur N.
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64% 50% Club Zero Watchlist
63% 81% That Day
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Filmography

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Finalement 2024 Léa Actor Coup de Chance 83% 77% 2023 Caroline Actor Club Zero 64% 50% 2023 Elsa's Mother Actor BigBug 47% 73% 2022 Actor Simone: Woman of the Century 71% 73% 2021 Simone Veil (1968 - 2006) Actor Waiting for Anya 41% 59% 2020 Maman Actor Husband, Wife, Kids... and Lovers 2020 Audrey Actor Adorables 2020 Emma Actor Selfie 40% 2019 Actor I Wish Someone Were Waiting for Me Somewhere 2019 Actor An Irrepressible Woman 2019 Janot Reichenbach Actor Rolling to You 2018 Marie Actor Bel Canto 47% 46% 2018 Edith Thibault Actor A Bag of Marbles 83% 85% 2017 Anna Actor With Open Arms 12% 2017 Daphné Fougerole Actor The Heads of the Job 2016 Cathy Begin Actor Tourner pour vivre 2016 Actor The Price of Desire 27% 25% 2015 Romaine Brooks Actor Un plus une 33% 2015 Anna Hamon Actor Gemma Bovery 54% 43% 2014 Wizzy Actor À votre bon coeur mesdames 2013 Soeur Blandine Actor Plan de table 30% 2012 Actor Play It Like Godard 10% 2011 Self A Butterfly Kiss 20% 2011 Actor Les Tribulations d'une Caissière 19% 2011 Marie Actor
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