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.

Mangold even depicts Sylvie meeting Dylan in the same manner the real Dylan met Rotolo, at a folk concert in a New York church. But unlike the other characters in the film, Sylvie is given a ...

Dylan traveled to Italy in 1962 in pursuit of Suze Rotolo — named Sylvie Russo in the film and played by Elle Fanning — who had left New York to study abroad. In 1962, Rotolo left the ...

Lightly fictionalised as “Sylvie Russo” and played by Elle Fanning in Timothée Chalamet’s new biopic of the singer, A Complete Unknown, Rotolo was the woman photographed laughing and ...

In the new Bob Dylan biopic "A Complete Unknown," Elle Fanning plays Sylvie Russo. The character is a renamed version of Dylan's former girlfriend Suze Rotolo. They dated in the early '60s, and Rotolo ...