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
Haute Cuisine (2012)
as David Azoulay
House of 9 (2005)
as Francis
Paris Je T'aime (2006)
as Le père (Place des Victoires)
The Dinner Guest (2007)
as Pontignac
First Name: Carmen (1983)
as Fred
La face (2016)
as Serge Vauban
Bird People (2014)
as Vengers
Les voeux (—)
Actor
Parallel Parking (2007)
as Hervé
Badinter (2027)
as François Mitterand
The Target (1997)
as Stan
Manon of the Spring (1986)
as Bernard Olivier, teacher
Le Viol (2017)
as Président cour d’assises
Lies (2010)
as Jean-Louis Richepois
Park Benches (2009)
as Executive # 1
French Lovers (1985)
Actor
The Girl King (2015)
as Ambassador Pierre Hector Chanut
Inspector Blunder (1980)
as Friend of Michel Clément (uncredited)
An Open Heart (2012)
as Marc
Where I've Never Lived (2017)
as Benoît
Incontrôlable (2006)
as Roger
Laghat - Un sogno impossibile (2025)
Actor
Lady Chatterley (2006)
as Clifford
A Christmas Tale (2008)
as Claude Dédalus
One Day You'll Understand (2008)
as Victor
Modigliani (2004)
as Maurice Utrillo
Ismael's Ghosts (2017)
as Zwy
Mama Weed (2020)
as Philippe
Paradise Calling (1988)
as Mark
Love After Love (1992)
as Tom
Made in Paris (2006)
as Antoine Carré
L'Amour nu (1981)
as Hervé
Le Joueur (2027)
Actor
Le Destin de Juliette (1983)
as Pierre
Le Bon Plaisir (1984)
as Pierre
Descent Into Hell (1986)
as Philippe Devignat
Flight of the Red Balloon (2008)
as Marc
It Will Happen Tonight (2026)
as Olivier
The Moustache (2005)
as Bruno
Barjo (1992)
as Barjo
Fort Saganne (1984)
as Courette
2018 Der Ölcrash (2005)
as Paul
Kings & Queen (2004)
as Maître Marc Mamanne
Babyphone (2023)
as Le Maire
Capital (2012)
as Raphaël Sieg
Quiet Chaos (2008)
as Jean Claude
The Perfume of Yvonne (1994)
as Victor Chmara
Trois Couples en quête d'orages (2005)
as Jean-Xavier
L'Oiseau rare (2001)
as Marc
Drôle de genre (2003)
as Camille Bazin
Just a Couple of Days (2024)
as Laurent
Life of Riley (2014)
as Colin
The Patriots (1994)
as Daniel
Top Floor Left Wing (2010)
as François Etcheveria
L'Aurore boréale (2013)
as Le père
Jésus (1999)
as Judas
Elisa (2025)
as Director
You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet (2012)
as Dulac
Love Without Pity (1989)
as Hippo
Kidon (2013)
as Monsieur Garnier
An Irrepressible Woman (2020)
as Léon Blum
The Rashevski Tango (2003)
as Antoine
Two Pianos (2025)
as Max
Spy(ies) (2009)
as Simon
1914 the Glorious Summer (1996)
as Pierre Mercadier
I Got a Woman (1997)
as L'acteur
That's Fine (2021)
as Paul
Hands in the Air (2010)
as Rodolphe
La femme de Jean (1974)
as Rémi
Crime Is Our Business (2008)
as le docteur François Lagarde
Des gens qui passent (2013)
as Grabely
Toxic Affair (1993)
as Georges
Sleeping Sickness (2011)
as Gaspard Signac
The Conquest (2011)
as Claude Guéant
Playing 'In the Company of Men' (2003)
as Willian De Lille
L'amant magnifique (1986)
as Vincent
The Girl in the Air (1992)
as Philippe
Follow My Gaze (1986)
as Le reporter en Afrique
When I Was 5, I Killed Myself (1994)
as Dr. Edouard Valmont
On the Sly (2018)
as Yves, le patron du club
Benedict Ironbreaker: The Red Taxis (2014)
as Le Commissaire
The Astronaut (2023)
as Monsieur Dominique, Jim's superior at Arianespace
Le Voyage en pyjama (2024)
as Vladimir Desrosiers
The Black Book (2020)
as (voice)
The ben barka affair (2008)
as Georges Figon, voyou au cœur du complot, ami du réalisateur Georges Franju
Jump Tomorrow (2001)
as Gérard
My Place in the Sun (2007)
as François
Out of Life (1991)
as Patrick Perrault
The Edge (2011)
as Sam
Nos amis les flics (2004)
as Fatouche
Comme les doigts de la main (1985)
as The narrator
Off and Running (2008)
as L'homme à la chemise blanche
Où avais-je la tête ? (2008)
as Paul-Vincent
Virus au paradis (2003)
as Le ministre de la Santé
Si j'étais elle (2004)
as Alex
Long Live the Republic (1997)
as Henri
To Life (2014)
as Henri
The Prominents (—)
as Leon Blum
Vivre c'est mieux que mourir (2006)
as Callaghan
Un an (2006)
as Félix
Le Tigre du Jardin des plantes (1982)
as Robinson
L'Amour ou presque (1985)
as Luc
Un moment d'inattention (1986)
as Laurent
The Robin Hoods of the Poor (2011)
as le commandant Viennot
Adèle et Kamel (2005)
as Antoine
Gustave Courbet: The Origins of His World (2007)
as (voice)
Yuki & Nina (2009)
as Frédéric
La rupture (2013)
as Valéry Giscard d'Estaing
Resolution 819 (2008)
as Lherbier
Premonition (2006)
as Marc Bénesteau
Les Héritiers (2021)
as Vaillant