Sylvie Russo from A Complete Unknown is based on the late real-life artist, Suze Rotolo. In the film, Sylvie Russo is Bob Dylan’s ( Timothée Chalamet ) first serious girlfriend and a seminal ...

In A Complete Unknown, Sylvie Russo is a fabrication—though that ... Sylvie is intended to represent the real-life woman who inspired much of Dylan’s early work, and who appeared clutching ...

Director James Mangold confirmed to Rolling Stone that Fanning's character Sylvie Russo is meant to closely resemble the real Rotolo, rather than be a "half-Suze, half-fictional" creation. "It was a ...

Elle Fanning plays Sylvie Russo, aka Suze Rotolo ... According to Fanning, Dylan asked the filmmakers to avoid using Rotolo's real name because she was "a very private person and didn't ask ...

The movie, which hits theaters on Christmas Day, also stars Monica Barbaro as the legendary folk singer Joan Baez and Elle Fanning as Sylvie Russo, a renamed version of Dylan's girlfriend at the time, ...