Hippolyte Girardot
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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.
Known for
Credits
The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun (2021)
as Chou-fleur
Flight of the Red Balloon (2007)
as Marc
Paris Je T'aime (2006)
as Le père (Place des Victoires)
Manon of the Spring (1986)
as Bernard Olivier, teacher
First Name: Carmen (1983)
as Fred
The Girl King (2015)
as Ambassador Pierre Hector Chanut
Lady Chatterley (2006)
as Clifford
Modigliani (2004)
as Maurice Utrillo
House of 9 (2005)
as Francis
Elisa (2025)
as Director
Bird People (2014)
as Vengers
Capital (2012)
as Raphaël Sieg
The Target (1997)
as Stan
Haute Cuisine (2012)
as David Azoulay
The Dinner Guest (2007)
as Pontignac
Two Pianos (2025)
as Max
Mama Weed (2020)
as Philippe
Fort Saganne (1984)
as Courette
The Conquest (2011)
as Claude Guéant
Descent Into Hell (1986)
as Philippe Devignat
A Christmas Tale (2008)
as Claude Dédalus
Badinter (2026)
as François Mitterand
Quiet Chaos (2008)
as Jean Claude
Le Joueur (—)
Actor
Incontrôlable (2006)
as Roger
Spy(ies) (2009)
as Simon
Le Viol (2017)
as Président cour d’assises
The Patriots (1994)
as Daniel
An Open Heart (2012)
as Marc
Laghat - Un sogno impossibile (2025)
Actor
The Moustache (2005)
as Bruno
Love After Love (1992)
as Tom
Kings & Queen (2004)
as Maître Marc Mamanne
You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet (2012)
as Dulac
Inspector Blunder (1980)
as Friend of Michel Clément (uncredited)
Ismael's Ghosts (2017)
as Zwy
Lies (2010)
as Jean-Louis Richepois
French Lovers (1985)
Actor
The Perfume of Yvonne (1994)
as Victor Chmara
Jump Tomorrow (2001)
as Gérard
Les voeux (—)
Actor
Crime Is Our Business (2008)
as le docteur François Lagarde
Le Bon Plaisir (1984)
as Pierre
Kidon (2013)
as Monsieur Garnier
Park Benches (2009)
as Executive # 1
Babyphone (2023)
as Le Maire
Off and Running (2008)
as L'homme à la chemise blanche
Resolution 819 (2008)
as Lherbier
The Astronaut (2023)
as Monsieur Dominique, Jim's superior at Arianespace
An Irrepressible Woman (2020)
as Léon Blum
L'Amour nu (1981)
as Hervé
Toxic Affair (1993)
as Georges
The Edge (2011)
as Sam
Parallel Parking (2007)
as Hervé
To Life (2014)
as Henri
Un moment d'inattention (1986)
as Laurent
My Place in the Sun (2007)
as François
1914 the Glorious Summer (1996)
as Pierre Mercadier
Made in Paris (2006)
as Antoine Carré
Follow My Gaze (1986)
as Le reporter en Afrique
L'Affaire Ben Barka (2008)
as Georges Figon, voyou au cœur du complot, ami du réalisateur Georges Franju
La rupture (2013)
as Valéry Giscard d'Estaing
Drôle de genre (2003)
as Camille Bazin
La face (2016)
as Serge Vauban
It Will Happen Tonight (2026)
Actor
Le Voyage en pyjama (2024)
as Vladimir Desrosiers
La Chartreuse de Parme (2012)
as Count Mosca
The Rashevski Tango (2003)
as Antoine
Love Without Pity (1989)
as Hippo
2018 Der Ölcrash (2005)
as Paul
Top Floor Left Wing (2010)
as François Etcheveria
Hands in the Air (2010)
as Rodolphe
Si j'étais elle (2004)
as Alex
Just a Couple of Days (2024)
as Laurent
I Got a Woman (1997)
as L'acteur
Sleeping Sickness (2011)
as Gaspard Signac
L'Oiseau rare (2001)
as Marc
Jésus (1999)
as Judas
Yuki & Nina (2009)
as Frédéric
Life of Riley (2014)
as Colin
The Girl in the Air (1992)
as Philippe
Out of Life (1991)
as Patrick Perrault
Where I've Never Lived (2017)
as Benoît
L'Amour ou presque (1985)
as Luc
Barjo (1992)
as Barjo
Paradise Calling (1988)
as Mark
Benedict Ironbreaker: The Red Taxis (2014)
as Le Commissaire
The Black Book (2020)
as (voice)
That's Fine (2021)
as Paul
One Day You'll Understand (2008)
as Victor
L'amant magnifique (1986)
as Vincent
Trois Couples en quête d'orages (2005)
as Jean-Xavier
Comme les doigts de la main (1985)
as The narrator
Le Destin de Juliette (1983)
as Pierre
On the Sly (2018)
as Yves, le patron du club
Virus au paradis (2003)
as Le ministre de la Santé
La femme de Jean (1974)
as Rémi
Les Héritiers (2021)
as Vaillant
The Prominents (—)
as Leon Blum
Playing 'In the Company of Men' (2003)
as Willian De Lille
Des gens qui passent (2013)
as Grabely
Premonition (2006)
as Marc Bénesteau
Le Tigre du Jardin des plantes (1982)
as Robinson
Nos amis les flics (2004)
as Fatouche
Où avais-je la tête ? (2008)
as Paul-Vincent
When I Was 5, I Killed Myself (1994)
as Dr. Edouard Valmont
The Robin Hoods of the Poor (2011)
as le commandant Viennot
L'Aurore boréale (2013)
as Le père
Gustave Courbet: The Origins of His World (2007)
as (voice)
Vivre c'est mieux que mourir (2006)
as Callaghan
Adèle et Kamel (2005)
as Antoine
Long Live the Republic (1997)
as Henri
Un an (2006)
as Félix