Hippolyte Girardot
Hippolyte Girardot (born Frédéric Girardot; 10 October 1955) is a French actor, film director and screenwriter.
A loner, Hippolyte Girardot set out to be an illustrator. He dreamt of working as production designer on the film set and tempted his chance at the entrance exam to the Arts Déco. While there, he was offered the project of a series of shorts working with a group of adolescents from the suburbs in a workshop setting. Even if he made his first appearance on the silver screen as the son of actor Claude Rich in "John's Wife" by Yannick Bellon, who was a friend of his mother's, he still had no intention of becoming an actor and continued to take on the various jobs proposed.
Hippolyte Girardot developed a taste for acting while filming "The Destiny of Juliette" (1983) by Aline Issermann, and again with the same director for "L'Amant magnifique". He got his first nods from the profession when he was nominated for Most Promising Young Actor in 1985 for "Le Bon Plaisir", continuing his career with Godard ("First Name: Carmen") and other A film projects, notably in "Fort Saganne" and "Jean de Florette II" in which he plays a school teacher in love with Emmanuelle Beart. His film acclaim arrived in 1990 with "A World Without Pity", a disenchanted observation of society by Eric Rochant; his character Hippo resonated with an entire generation: ironically aimless yet charming.
The following year, Girardot landed the lead role playing a photographer taken hostage in Lebanon in "Out of Life" by Maroun Bagdadi. He incarnated the mysterious seducer ("After Love", "The Scent of Yvonne"), but more often found himself performing in comedies: completely crazy in "Barjo" and unemployed in "Long Live the Republic" (1997) by close collaborator, Eric Rochant.
After working for the television for a few years, his return to film was acclaimed in "Rashevski's Tango" in 2003. Joining the Desplechin film universe, Hippolyte Girardot gave notable performances as a business man in "Playing 'In the Company of Men'", a crooked lawyer involved in drugs in "Kings and Queen" (2004) and Anne Consigny's husband in "A Christmas Tale". Other renowned directors with whom he has collaborated include Pascal Bonitzer and Pascale Ferran ("Lady Chatterley"), and in 2006, he juggled a formidable acting career, appearing in no less than six films. After his role as a shaddy doctor in "Crime Is Our Business", his roles began to become more and more original: the alter ego of Jerome Clement in "Later" by Amos Gitai and Nanni Moretti's partner in "Quiet Chaos". He had a spell at co-directing with Nobuhiro Suwa for the film "Yuki & Nina", a touchy look at childhood that was presented at the Directors' Fortnight in 2009. Continuing to accept roles in films with a political message, he will appear in "Les Mains en l'air", which denounces Italian fascism in the year 2067, and take the lead in the dark comedy "Dernier étage gauche gauche" in which he plays a bailiff taken hostage in a housing projects building, both films to be released in 2010.
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Movies (112)
Badinter
2027 · François Mitterand
Le Joueur
2027
It Will Happen Tonight
2026 · Olivier
Laghat - Un sogno impossibile
2025
Two Pianos
2025 · Max
Elisa
2025 · Director
Just a Couple of Days
2024 · Laurent
Le Voyage en pyjama
2024 · Vladimir Desrosiers
The Astronaut
2023 · Monsieur Dominique, Jim's superior at Arianespace
Babyphone
2023 · Le Maire
La Crónica Francesa
2021 · Chou-fleur
Les Héritiers
2021 · Vaillant
That's Fine
2021 · Paul
The Black Book
2020 · (voice)
Mama Weed
2020 · Philippe
An Irrepressible Woman
2020 · Léon Blum
On the Sly
2018 · Yves, le patron du club
Where I've Never Lived
2017 · Benoît
Le Viol
2017 · Président cour d’assises
Ismael's Ghosts
2017 · Zwy
La face
2016 · Serge Vauban
The Girl King
2015 · Ambassador Pierre Hector Chanut
Benedict Ironbreaker: The Red Taxis
2014 · Le Commissaire
To Life
2014 · Henri
Bird People
2014 · Vengers
Life of Riley
2014 · Colin
La rupture
2013 · Valéry Giscard d'Estaing
Kidon
2013 · Monsieur Garnier
L'Aurore boréale
2013 · Le père
Des gens qui passent
2013 · Grabely
Capital
2012 · Raphaël Sieg
Haute Cuisine
2012 · David Azoulay
You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet
2012 · Dulac
An Open Heart
2012 · Marc
The Robin Hoods of the Poor
2011 · le commandant Viennot
Sleeping Sickness
2011 · Gaspard Signac
The Conquest
2011 · Claude Guéant
The Edge
2011 · Sam
Top Floor Left Wing
2010 · François Etcheveria
Hands in the Air
2010 · Rodolphe
Lies
2010 · Jean-Louis Richepois
Yuki & Nina
2009 · Frédéric, Director, Writer
Park Benches
2009 · Executive # 1
Spy(ies)
2009 · Simon
Resolution 819
2008 · Lherbier
Crime Is Our Business
2008 · le docteur François Lagarde
A Christmas Tale
2008 · Claude Dédalus
Off and Running
2008 · L'homme à la chemise blanche
Quiet Chaos
2008 · Jean Claude
Flight of the Red Balloon
2008 · Marc
Où avais-je la tête ?
2008 · Paul-Vincent
The ben barka affair
2008 · Georges Figon, voyou au cœur du complot, ami du réalisateur Georges Franju
One Day You'll Understand
2008 · Victor
The Dinner Guest
2007 · Pontignac
My Place in the Sun
2007 · François
Parallel Parking
2007 · Hervé
Gustave Courbet: The Origins of His World
2007 · (voice)
Made in Paris
2006 · Antoine Carré
Lady Chatterley
2006 · Clifford
Premonition
2006 · Marc Bénesteau
Un an
2006 · Félix
Paris Je T'aime
2006 · Le père (Place des Victoires)
Vivre c'est mieux que mourir
2006 · Callaghan
Incontrôlable
2006 · Roger
Adèle et Kamel
2005 · Antoine
House of 9
2005 · Francis
The Moustache
2005 · Bruno
Trois Couples en quête d'orages
2005 · Jean-Xavier
2018 Der Ölcrash
2005 · Paul
Kings & Queen
2004 · Maître Marc Mamanne
Si j'étais elle
2004 · Alex
Nos amis les flics
2004 · Fatouche
Modigliani
2004 · Maurice Utrillo
The Rashevski Tango
2003 · Antoine
Virus au paradis
2003 · Le ministre de la Santé
Playing 'In the Company of Men'
2003 · Willian De Lille
Drôle de genre
2003 · Camille Bazin
Jump Tomorrow
2001 · Gérard
L'Oiseau rare
2001 · Marc
Jésus
1999 · Judas
Long Live the Republic
1997 · Henri
The Target
1997 · Stan
I Got a Woman
1997 · L'acteur
1914 the Glorious Summer
1996 · Pierre Mercadier
The Patriots
1994 · Daniel
The Perfume of Yvonne
1994 · Victor Chmara
When I Was 5, I Killed Myself
1994 · Dr. Edouard Valmont
Toxic Affair
1993 · Georges
The Girl in the Air
1992 · Philippe
Barjo
1992 · Barjo
Love After Love
1992 · Tom
Out of Life
1991 · Patrick Perrault
Love Without Pity
1989 · Hippo
Paradise Calling
1988 · Mark
Manon of the Spring
1986 · Bernard Olivier, teacher
Descent Into Hell
1986 · Philippe Devignat
Un moment d'inattention
1986 · Laurent
L'amant magnifique
1986 · Vincent
Follow My Gaze
1986 · Le reporter en Afrique
L'Amour ou presque
1985 · Luc
Comme les doigts de la main
1985 · The narrator
French Lovers
1985
Fort Saganne
1984 · Courette
Le Bon Plaisir
1984 · Pierre
First Name: Carmen
1983 · Fred
Le Destin de Juliette
1983 · Pierre
Le Tigre du Jardin des plantes
1982 · Robinson
L'Amour nu
1981 · Hervé
Inspector Blunder
1980 · Friend of Michel Clément (uncredited)
La femme de Jean
1974 · Rémi
The Prominents
· Leon Blum
Les voeux
TV shows (23)
Singapura
2026 · Louis Antelme
Bardot
2023 · Louis Bardot
Irma Vep
2022 · Robert Danjou
Voltaire in Love
2021 · Duc de Sully
Grand Hôtel
2020 · Paul Andrieux
Inside
2019 · Raphaël Santi
Thanksgiving
2019 · L'homme de Mobun
Patrick Melrose
2018 · Jacques D'Alantour
Paris etc.
2017 · Bruno
Munch
2016 · Mathieu
Marseille
2016 · Le docteur Osmond, Le docteur Osmond (uncredited)
Occupied
2015 · French EU Commissioner
No Second Chance
2015 · Tessier
Inspectora Marleau
2015 · Pierre Claudel
Lanester
2014 · Professeur Vincent Gerhardt
Murders in...
2013 · Demeziere
The Charterhouse of Parma
2012 · Conte Mosca
Off Prime
2007
Dolmen
2005 · Pierre-Marie de Kersaint
Chère Marianne
1999 · Legarrec
The Hitchhiker
1983 · Paul
Champs-Elysées
1982 · Self
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