Hippolyte Girardot
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- October 10, 1955 (age 71)
- Birthplace
- 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. 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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Filmography
The Prominents
Movie · as Leon Blum
Les voeux
Movie
Rallye 82
TV · 1 ep
Le Joueur
Movie
Badinter
Movie · as François Mitterand
It Will Happen Tonight
Movie · as Olivier
Singapura
TV · as Louis Antelme · 6 eps
Two Pianos
Movie · as Max
Elisa
Movie · as Director
Laghat - Un sogno impossibile
Movie
Le Voyage en pyjama
Movie · as Vladimir Desrosiers
Just a Couple of Days
Movie · as Laurent
Babyphone
Movie · as Le Maire
The Astronaut
Movie · as Monsieur Dominique, Jim's superior at Arianespace
Bardot
TV · as Louis Bardot · 6 eps
Irma Vep
TV · as Robert Danjou · 8 eps
The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun
Movie · as Chou-fleur
That's Fine
Movie · as Paul
Les Héritiers
Movie · as Vaillant
Voltaire in Love
TV · as Duc de Sully · 4 eps
Mama Weed
Movie · as Philippe
An Irrepressible Woman
Movie · as Léon Blum
The Black Book
Movie · as (voice)
Grand Hôtel
TV · as Paul Andrieux · 8 eps
Thanksgiving
TV · as L'homme de Mobun · 3 eps
Inside
TV · as Raphaël Santi · 6 eps
On the Sly
Movie · as Yves, le patron du club
Patrick Melrose
TV · as Jacques D'Alantour · 1 ep
Ismael's Ghosts
Movie · as Zwy
Le Viol
Movie · as Président cour d’assises
Where I've Never Lived
Movie · as Benoît
Paris etc.
TV · as Bruno · 12 eps
La face
Movie · as Serge Vauban
Munch
TV · as Mathieu · 8 eps
Marseille
TV · as Le docteur Osmond, Le docteur Osmond (uncredited) · 6 eps
The Girl King
Movie · as Ambassador Pierre Hector Chanut
No Second Chance
TV · as Tessier · 6 eps
Occupied
TV · as French EU Commissioner · 4 eps
Capitaine Marleau
TV · as Pierre Claudel · 1 ep
Life of Riley
Movie · as Colin
To Life
Movie · as Henri
Bird People
Movie · as Vengers
Benedict Ironbreaker: The Red Taxis
Movie · as Le Commissaire
Lanester
TV · as Professeur Vincent Gerhardt · 3 eps
Kidon
Movie · as Monsieur Garnier
La rupture
Movie · as Valéry Giscard d'Estaing
Des gens qui passent
Movie · as Grabely
L'Aurore boréale
Movie · as Le père
Murders in...
TV · as Demeziere · 1 ep
You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet
Movie · as Dulac
Capital
Movie · as Raphaël Sieg
An Open Heart
Movie · as Marc
Haute Cuisine
Movie · as David Azoulay
The Charterhouse of Parma
TV · as Conte Mosca · 2 eps
The Conquest
Movie · as Claude Guéant
Sleeping Sickness
Movie · as Gaspard Signac
The Edge
Movie · as Sam
The Robin Hoods of the Poor
Movie · as le commandant Viennot
Hands in the Air
Movie · as Rodolphe
Top Floor Left Wing
Movie · as François Etcheveria
Lies
Movie · as Jean-Louis Richepois
Spy(ies)
Movie · as Simon
Park Benches
Movie · as Executive # 1
Yuki & Nina
Movie · as Frédéric
Quiet Chaos
Movie · as Jean Claude
One Day You'll Understand
Movie · as Victor
A Christmas Tale
Movie · as Claude Dédalus
Flight of the Red Balloon
Movie · as Marc
Resolution 819
Movie · as Lherbier
Où avais-je la tête ?
Movie · as Paul-Vincent
Crime Is Our Business
Movie · as le docteur François Lagarde
Off and Running
Movie · as L'homme à la chemise blanche
The ben barka affair
Movie · as Georges Figon, voyou au cœur du complot, ami du réalisateur Georges Franju
The Dinner Guest
Movie · as Pontignac
My Place in the Sun
Movie · as François
Parallel Parking
Movie · as Hervé
Gustave Courbet: The Origins of His World
Movie · as (voice)
Off Prime
TV · 2 eps
Paris Je T'aime
Movie · as Le père (Place des Victoires)
Lady Chatterley
Movie · as Clifford
Premonition
Movie · as Marc Bénesteau
Made in Paris
Movie · as Antoine Carré
Vivre c'est mieux que mourir
Movie · as Callaghan
Incontrôlable
Movie · as Roger
Un an
Movie · as Félix
The Moustache
Movie · as Bruno
House of 9
Movie · as Francis
Trois Couples en quête d'orages
Movie · as Jean-Xavier
Adèle et Kamel
Movie · as Antoine
2018 Der Ölcrash
Movie · as Paul
Dolmen
TV · as Pierre-Marie de Kersaint · 6 eps
Modigliani
Movie · as Maurice Utrillo
Kings & Queen
Movie · as Maître Marc Mamanne
Si j'étais elle
Movie · as Alex
Nos amis les flics
Movie · as Fatouche
The Rashevski Tango
Movie · as Antoine
Playing 'In the Company of Men'
Movie · as Willian De Lille
Virus au paradis
Movie · as Le ministre de la Santé
Drôle de genre
Movie · as Camille Bazin
Jump Tomorrow
Movie · as Gérard
L'Oiseau rare
Movie · as Marc
Jésus
Movie · as Judas
Chère Marianne
TV · as Legarrec · 1 ep
The Target
Movie · as Stan
Long Live the Republic
Movie · as Henri
I Got a Woman
Movie · as L'acteur
1914 the Glorious Summer
Movie · as Pierre Mercadier
When I Was 5, I Killed Myself
Movie · as Dr. Edouard Valmont
The Perfume of Yvonne
Movie · as Victor Chmara
The Patriots
Movie · as Daniel
Toxic Affair
Movie · as Georges
Barjo
Movie · as Barjo
The Girl in the Air
Movie · as Philippe
Love After Love
Movie · as Tom
Out of Life
Movie · as Patrick Perrault
Love Without Pity
Movie · as Hippo
Paradise Calling
Movie · as Mark
Manon of the Spring
Movie · as Bernard Olivier, teacher
L'amant magnifique
Movie · as Vincent
Descent Into Hell
Movie · as Philippe Devignat
Follow My Gaze
Movie · as Le reporter en Afrique
Un moment d'inattention
Movie · as Laurent
L'Amour ou presque
Movie · as Luc
French Lovers
Movie
Comme les doigts de la main
Movie · as The narrator
Fort Saganne
Movie · as Courette
Le Bon Plaisir
Movie · as Pierre
First Name: Carmen
Movie · as Fred
Le Destin de Juliette
Movie · as Pierre
The Hitchhiker
TV · as Paul · 1 ep
Le Tigre du Jardin des plantes
Movie · as Robinson
Champs-Elysées
TV · as Self · 1 ep
L'Amour nu
Movie · as Hervé
Inspector Blunder
Movie · as Friend of Michel Clément (uncredited)
La femme de Jean
Movie · as Rémi