Hippolyte Girardot (born Frédéric Girardot; 10 October 1955) is a French actor, film director and screenwriter.
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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Wikipedia: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1620037
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Filmography (Movies)
Badinter
Character:
Release Date:11/11/2026
Laghat - Un sogno impossibile
Character:
Release Date:26/11/2025
Two Pianos
Character:Max
Release Date:15/10/2025
Elisa
Character:Director
Release Date:05/09/2025
Just a Couple of Days
Character:Laurent
Release Date:03/04/2024
Le Voyage en pyjama
Character:Vladimir Desrosiers
Release Date:17/01/2024
The Astronaut
Character:Monsieur Dominique, Jim's superior at Arianespace
Release Date:15/02/2023
Babyphone
Character:Le Maire
Release Date:13/01/2023
The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun
Character:Chou-fleur
Release Date:21/10/2021
Les Héritiers
Character:Vaillant
Release Date:13/09/2021
That's Fine
Character:Paul
Release Date:26/03/2021
The Black Book
Character:(voice)
Release Date:13/12/2020
Mama Weed
Character:Philippe
Release Date:09/09/2020
An Irrepressible Woman
Character:Léon Blum
Release Date:15/01/2020
On the Sly
Character:Yves, le patron du club
Release Date:17/01/2018
Where I've Never Lived
Character:Benoît
Release Date:12/10/2017
Le Viol
Character:Président cour d’assises
Release Date:19/09/2017
Ismael's Ghosts
Character:Zwy
Release Date:17/05/2017
La face
Character:Serge Vauban
Release Date:24/05/2016
The Girl King
Character:Ambassador Pierre Hector Chanut
Release Date:11/12/2015
Benedict Ironbreaker: The Red Taxis
Character:Le Commissaire
Release Date:17/12/2014
To Life
Character:Henri
Release Date:26/11/2014
Bird People
Character:Vengers
Release Date:04/06/2014
Life of Riley
Character:Colin
Release Date:26/03/2014
La rupture
Character:Valéry Giscard d'Estaing
Release Date:26/11/2013
Kidon
Character:Monsieur Garnier
Release Date:24/08/2013
L'Aurore boréale
Character:Le père
Release Date:23/08/2013
Des gens qui passent
Character:Grabely
Release Date:04/06/2013
Capital
Character:Raphaël Sieg
Release Date:14/11/2012
Haute Cuisine
Character:David Azoulay
Release Date:17/09/2012
You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet
Character:Dulac
Release Date:01/09/2012
An Open Heart
Character:Marc
Release Date:08/08/2012
La Chartreuse de Parme
Character:Count Mosca
Release Date:04/03/2012
The Robin Hoods of the Poor
Character:le commandant Viennot
Release Date:25/10/2011
Sleeping Sickness
Character:Gaspard Signac
Release Date:23/06/2011
The Conquest
Character:Claude Guéant
Release Date:18/05/2011
The Edge
Character:Sam
Release Date:27/04/2011
Top Floor Left Wing
Character:François Etcheveria
Release Date:15/11/2010
Hands in the Air
Character:Rodolphe
Release Date:06/07/2010
Lies
Character:Jean-Louis Richepois
Release Date:10/03/2010
Yuki & Nina
Character:Frédéric
Release Date:27/11/2009
Park Benches
Character:Executive # 1
Release Date:08/07/2009
Spy(ies)
Character:Simon
Release Date:28/01/2009
Resolution 819
Character:Lherbier
Release Date:27/10/2008
Crime Is Our Business
Character:le docteur François Lagarde
Release Date:02/10/2008
A Christmas Tale
Character:Claude Dédalus
Release Date:21/05/2008
Off and Running
Character:L'homme à la chemise blanche
Release Date:16/04/2008
Quiet Chaos
Character:Jean Claude
Release Date:08/02/2008
Où avais-je la tête ?
Character:Paul-Vincent
Release Date:23/01/2008
L'Affaire Ben Barka
Character:Georges Figon, voyou au cœur du complot, ami du réalisateur Georges Franju
Release Date:21/01/2008
One Day You'll Understand
Character:Victor
Release Date:01/01/2008
The Dinner Guest
Character:Pontignac
Release Date:19/09/2007
Flight of the Red Balloon
Character:Marc
Release Date:17/05/2007
My Place in the Sun
Character:François
Release Date:14/03/2007
Parallel Parking
Character:Hervé
Release Date:31/01/2007
Gustave Courbet: The Origins of His World
Character:(voice)
Release Date:01/01/2007
Made in Paris
Character:Antoine Carré
Release Date:29/11/2006
Lady Chatterley
Character:Clifford
Release Date:01/11/2006
Premonition
Character:Marc Bénesteau
Release Date:04/10/2006
Un an
Character:Félix
Release Date:28/06/2006
Paris Je T'aime
Character:Le père (Place des Victoires)
Release Date:21/06/2006
Vivre c'est mieux que mourir
Character:Callaghan
Release Date:05/05/2006
Incontrôlable
Character:Roger
Release Date:08/02/2006
Adèle et Kamel
Character:Antoine
Release Date:23/11/2005
House of 9
Character:Francis
Release Date:19/06/2005
The Moustache
Character:Bruno
Release Date:09/06/2005
Trois couples en quête d'orages
Character:Jean-Xavier
Release Date:27/04/2005
2018 Der Ölcrash
Character:Paul
Release Date:15/02/2005
Kings & Queen
Character:Maître Marc Mamanne
Release Date:22/12/2004
Si j'étais elle
Character:Alex
Release Date:15/12/2004
Nos amis les flics
Character:Fatouche
Release Date:18/06/2004
Modigliani
Character:Maurice Utrillo
Release Date:18/05/2004
The Rashevski Tango
Character:Antoine
Release Date:03/09/2003
Virus au paradis
Character:Le ministre de la Santé
Release Date:23/06/2003
Playing 'In the Company of Men'
Character:Willian De Lille
Release Date:15/05/2003
Drôle de genre
Character:Camille Bazin
Release Date:11/04/2003
Jump Tomorrow
Character:Gérard
Release Date:09/11/2001
L'Oiseau rare
Character:Marc
Release Date:14/05/2001
Jésus
Character:Judas
Release Date:15/12/1999
Long Live the Republic
Character:Henri
Release Date:05/11/1997
The Target
Character:Stan
Release Date:23/04/1997
I Got a Woman
Character:L'acteur
Release Date:01/01/1997
1914 the Glorious Summer
Character:Pierre Mercadier
Release Date:21/08/1996
The Patriots
Character:Daniel
Release Date:18/05/1994
The Perfume of Yvonne
Character:Victor Chmara
Release Date:24/03/1994
When I Was 5, I Killed Myself
Character:Dr. Edouard Valmont
Release Date:02/02/1994
Toxic Affair
Character:Georges
Release Date:26/05/1993
The Girl in the Air
Character:Philippe
Release Date:26/05/1992
Barjo
Character:Barjo
Release Date:12/05/1992
Love After Love
Character:Tom
Release Date:15/04/1992
Out of Life
Character:Patrick Perrault
Release Date:15/05/1991
Love Without Pity
Character:Hippo
Release Date:22/11/1989
Paradise Calling
Character:Mark
Release Date:02/01/1988
Manon of the Spring
Character:Bernard Olivier, teacher
Release Date:19/11/1986
Descent Into Hell
Character:Philippe Devignat
Release Date:06/11/1986
Un moment d'inattention
Character:Laurent
Release Date:17/09/1986
L'amant magnifique
Character:Vincent
Release Date:11/06/1986
Follow My Gaze
Character:Le reporter en Afrique
Release Date:23/04/1986
L'Amour ou presque
Character:Luc
Release Date:20/11/1985
Comme les doigts de la main
Character:The narrator
Release Date:02/01/1985
French Lovers
Character:
Release Date:01/01/1985
Fort Saganne
Character:Courette
Release Date:11/05/1984
Le Bon Plaisir
Character:Pierre
Release Date:18/01/1984
First Name: Carmen
Character:Fred
Release Date:01/12/1983
Le Destin de Juliette
Character:Pierre
Release Date:21/09/1983
Le Tigre du Jardin des plantes
Character:Robinson
Release Date:01/01/1982
L'Amour nu
Character:Hervé
Release Date:07/10/1981
Inspector Blunder
Character:Friend of Michel Clément (uncredited)
Release Date:03/12/1980
La femme de Jean
Character:Rémi
Release Date:30/03/1974
Television Appearances
Bardot
Character:Louis Bardot
Irma Vep
Character:Robert Danjou
Voltaire in Love
Character:Duc de Sully
Grand Hôtel
Character:Paul Andrieux
Inside
Character:Raphaël Santi
Thanksgiving
Character:L'homme de Mobun
Patrick Melrose
Character:Jacques D'Alantour
Paris etc.
Character:Bruno
Munch
Character:Mathieu
Marseille
Character:Le docteur Osmond
Marseille
Character:Le docteur Osmond (uncredited)
Occupied
Character:French EU Commissioner
No Second Chance
Character:Tessier
Capitaine Marleau
Character:Pierre Claudel
Lanester
Character:Professeur Vincent Gerhardt
Murders in...
Character:Demeziere
The Charterhouse of Parma
Character:Conte Mosca
Off Prime
Character:
Dolmen
Character:Pierre-Marie de Kersaint
Chère Marianne
Character:Legarrec
The Hitchhiker
Character:Paul
Champs-Elysées
Character:Self
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