Hippolyte Girardot
112 movies · 22 TV shows
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Oct 10, 1955 (age 71)
- Place of birth
- Boulogne-Billancourt, Hauts-de-Seine, France
Biography
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.
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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.
Known for
Hippolyte Girardot: movies and TV shows
Acting (134)
- Upcoming It Will Happen Tonight
as Olivier
- Upcoming
- Upcoming Badinter
as François Mitterand
- Upcoming The Prominents
as Leon Blum
- Upcoming
- Upcoming
- Upcoming
- 2025
- 2025 Two Pianos
as Max
- 2025 Elisa
as Director
- 2024 Just a Couple of Days
as Laurent
- 2024 Le Voyage en pyjama
as Vladimir Desrosiers
- 2023
- 2023 The Astronaut
as Monsieur Dominique, Jim's superior at Arianespace
- 2023 Babyphone
as Le Maire
- 2022
- 2021 The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun
as Chou-fleur
- 2021 Les Héritiers
as Vaillant
- 2021 That's Fine
as Paul
- 2021
- 2020 The Black Book
as (voice)
- 2020 Mama Weed
as Philippe
- 2020
- 2020 An Irrepressible Woman
as Léon Blum
- 2019
- 2019
- 2018
- 2018 On the Sly
as Yves, le patron du club
- 2017
- 2017 Where I've Never Lived
as Benoît
- 2017 Le Viol
as Président cour d’assises
- 2017 Ismael's Ghosts
as Zwy
- 2016
- 2016 La face
as Serge Vauban
- 2016
- 2015 The Girl King
as Ambassador Pierre Hector Chanut
- 2015
- 2015
- 2015
- 2014 Benedict Ironbreaker: The Red Taxis
as Le Commissaire
- 2014 To Life
as Henri
- 2014 Bird People
as Vengers
- 2014 Life of Riley
as Colin
- 2014
- 2013 La rupture
as Valéry Giscard d'Estaing
- 2013 Kidon
as Monsieur Garnier
- 2013 L'Aurore boréale
as Le père
- 2013 Des gens qui passent
as Grabely
- 2013
- 2012 Capital
as Raphaël Sieg
- 2012 Haute Cuisine
as David Azoulay
- 2012 You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet
as Dulac
- 2012 An Open Heart
as Marc
- 2012
- 2011 The Robin Hoods of the Poor
as le commandant Viennot
- 2011 Sleeping Sickness
as Gaspard Signac
- 2011 The Conquest
as Claude Guéant
- 2011 The Edge
as Sam
- 2010 Top Floor Left Wing
as François Etcheveria
- 2010 Hands in the Air
as Rodolphe
- 2010 Lies
as Jean-Louis Richepois
- 2009 Yuki & Nina
as Frédéric
- 2009 Park Benches
as Executive # 1
- 2009 Spy(ies)
as Simon
- 2008 Resolution 819
as Lherbier
- 2008 Crime Is Our Business
as le docteur François Lagarde
- 2008 A Christmas Tale
as Claude Dédalus
- 2008 Off and Running
as L'homme à la chemise blanche
- 2008 Quiet Chaos
as Jean Claude
- 2008 Flight of the Red Balloon
as Marc
- 2008 Où avais-je la tête ?
as Paul-Vincent
- 2008 The ben barka affair
as Georges Figon, voyou au cœur du complot, ami du réalisateur Georges Franju
- 2008 One Day You'll Understand
as Victor
- 2007 The Dinner Guest
as Pontignac
- 2007
- 2007 My Place in the Sun
as François
- 2007 Parallel Parking
as Hervé
- 2007 Gustave Courbet: The Origins of His World
as (voice)
- 2006 Made in Paris
as Antoine Carré
- 2006 Lady Chatterley
as Clifford
- 2006 Premonition
as Marc Bénesteau
- 2006 Un an
as Félix
- 2006 Paris Je T'aime
as Le père (Place des Victoires)
- 2006 Vivre c'est mieux que mourir
as Callaghan
- 2006 Incontrôlable
as Roger
- 2005 Adèle et Kamel
as Antoine
- 2005 House of 9
as Francis
- 2005
- 2005 The Moustache
as Bruno
- 2005 Trois Couples en quête d'orages
as Jean-Xavier
- 2005 2018 Der Ölcrash
as Paul
- 2004 Kings & Queen
as Maître Marc Mamanne
- 2004 Si j'étais elle
as Alex
- 2004 Nos amis les flics
as Fatouche
- 2004 Modigliani
as Maurice Utrillo
- 2003 The Rashevski Tango
as Antoine
- 2003 Virus au paradis
as Le ministre de la Santé
- 2003 Playing 'In the Company of Men'
as Willian De Lille
- 2003 Drôle de genre
as Camille Bazin
- 2001 Jump Tomorrow
as Gérard
- 2001 L'Oiseau rare
as Marc
- 1999 Jésus
as Judas
- 1999
- 1997 Long Live the Republic
as Henri
- 1997 The Target
as Stan
- 1997 I Got a Woman
as L'acteur
- 1996 1914 the Glorious Summer
as Pierre Mercadier
- 1994 The Patriots
as Daniel
- 1994 The Perfume of Yvonne
as Victor Chmara
- 1994 When I Was 5, I Killed Myself
as Dr. Edouard Valmont
- 1993 Toxic Affair
as Georges
- 1992 The Girl in the Air
as Philippe
- 1992 Barjo
as Barjo
- 1992 Love After Love
as Tom
- 1991 Out of Life
as Patrick Perrault
- 1989 Love Without Pity
as Hippo
- 1988 Paradise Calling
as Mark
- 1986 Manon of the Spring
as Bernard Olivier, teacher
- 1986 Descent Into Hell
as Philippe Devignat
- 1986 Un moment d'inattention
as Laurent
- 1986 L'amant magnifique
as Vincent
- 1986 Follow My Gaze
as Le reporter en Afrique
- 1985 L'Amour ou presque
as Luc
- 1985 Comme les doigts de la main
as The narrator
- 1985
- 1984 Fort Saganne
as Courette
- 1984 Le Bon Plaisir
as Pierre
- 1983 First Name: Carmen
as Fred
- 1983
- 1983 Le Destin de Juliette
as Pierre
- 1982 Le Tigre du Jardin des plantes
as Robinson
- 1981 L'Amour nu
as Hervé
- 1980 Inspector Blunder
as Friend of Michel Clément (uncredited)
- 1974 La femme de Jean
as Rémi
Behind the camera (1)
- 2009 Yuki & Nina
Director, Writer
Talk shows and appearances (1)
- 1982 Champs-Elysées
1 episode