Hippolyte Girardot
Acting
Born: October 10, 1955 (age 70) · Boulogne-Billancourt, Hauts-de-Seine, France
Highest Rated
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.
Known for
The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun
2021
Paris Je T'aime
2006
Manon of the Spring
1986
Patrick Melrose
2018
Haute Cuisine
2012
Mama Weed
2020
House of 9
2005
Modigliani
2004
Inspector Blunder
1980
Quiet Chaos
2008
Ismael's Ghosts
2017
The Girl King
2015
Photos (4)
Movies (102)
The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun
Chou-fleur
Paris Je T'aime
Le père (Place des Victoires)
Manon of the Spring
Bernard Olivier, teacher
First Name: Carmen
Fred
Lady Chatterley
Clifford
Haute Cuisine
David Azoulay
House of 9
Francis
Love After Love
Tom
The Girl King
Ambassador Pierre Hector Chanut
Fort Saganne
Courette
Made in Paris
Antoine Carré
Bird People
Vengers
Flight of the Red Balloon
Marc
Descent Into Hell
Philippe Devignat
A Christmas Tale
Claude Dédalus
Inspector Blunder
Friend of Michel Clément (uncredited)
Laghat - Un sogno impossibile
2025
Mama Weed
Philippe
Capital
Raphaël Sieg
The Target
Stan
The Dinner Guest
Pontignac
Le Viol
Président cour d’assises
Modigliani
Maurice Utrillo
Incontrôlable
Roger
Ismael's Ghosts
Zwy
An Open Heart
Marc
The Patriots
Daniel
The Moustache
Bruno
Le Bon Plaisir
Pierre
La face
Serge Vauban
Babyphone
Le Maire
Two Pianos
Max
The Conquest
Claude Guéant
Quiet Chaos
Jean Claude
Kings & Queen
Maître Marc Mamanne
Park Benches
Executive # 1
Crime Is Our Business
le docteur François Lagarde
Elisa
Director
French Lovers
1985
You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet
Dulac
Just a Couple of Days
Laurent
Where I've Never Lived
Benoît
L'Amour nu
Hervé
Life of Riley
Colin
Follow My Gaze
Le reporter en Afrique
An Irrepressible Woman
Léon Blum
La Chartreuse de Parme
Count Mosca
Le Destin de Juliette
Pierre
Jésus
Judas
The Astronaut
Monsieur Dominique, Jim's superior at Arianespace
The Perfume of Yvonne
Victor Chmara
Toxic Affair
Georges
Resolution 819
Lherbier
Le Voyage en pyjama
Vladimir Desrosiers
Top Floor Left Wing
François Etcheveria
La femme de Jean
Rémi
Spy(ies)
Simon
Hands in the Air
Rodolphe
My Place in the Sun
François
The Girl in the Air
Philippe
That's Fine
Paul
L'Affaire Ben Barka
Georges Figon, voyou au cœur du complot, ami du réalisateur Georges Franju
To Life
Henri
L'amant magnifique
Vincent
L'Aurore boréale
Le père
Trois Couples en quête d'orages
Jean-Xavier
One Day You'll Understand
Victor
The Rashevski Tango
Antoine
L'Oiseau rare
Marc
Paradise Calling
Mark
The Black Book
(voice)
1914 the Glorious Summer
Pierre Mercadier
Out of Life
Patrick Perrault
Playing 'In the Company of Men'
Willian De Lille
Yuki & Nina
Frédéric
Kidon
Monsieur Garnier
La rupture
Valéry Giscard d'Estaing
Benedict Ironbreaker: The Red Taxis
Le Commissaire
Jump Tomorrow
Gérard
Premonition
Marc Bénesteau
The Robin Hoods of the Poor
le commandant Viennot
Barjo
Barjo
The Edge
Sam
Nos amis les flics
Fatouche
Un an
Félix
Love Without Pity
Hippo
Off and Running
L'homme à la chemise blanche
Sleeping Sickness
Gaspard Signac
Virus au paradis
Le ministre de la Santé
Long Live the Republic
Henri
Drôle de genre
Camille Bazin
Les Héritiers
Vaillant
L'Amour ou presque
Luc
Si j'étais elle
Alex
Des gens qui passent
Grabely
Vivre c'est mieux que mourir
Callaghan
Où avais-je la tête ?
Paul-Vincent
Gustave Courbet: The Origins of His World
(voice)
When I Was 5, I Killed Myself
Dr. Edouard Valmont
Adèle et Kamel
Antoine
Un moment d'inattention
Laurent
On the Sly
Yves, le patron du club
TV Shows (21)
Murders in...
Demeziere · 1 eps
The Hitchhiker
Paul · 1 eps
Patrick Melrose
Jacques D'Alantour · 1 eps
Capitaine Marleau
Pierre Claudel · 1 eps
Irma Vep
Robert Danjou · 8 eps
Occupied
French EU Commissioner · 4 eps
Marseille
Le docteur Osmond · 6 eps
Marseille
Le docteur Osmond (uncredited) · 2 eps
Munch
Mathieu · 8 eps
Off Prime
2 eps
Grand Hôtel
Paul Andrieux · 8 eps
No Second Chance
Tessier · 6 eps
Bardot
Louis Bardot · 6 eps
Dolmen
Pierre-Marie de Kersaint · 6 eps
Voltaire in Love
Duc de Sully · 4 eps
Paris etc.
Bruno · 12 eps
Inside
Raphaël Santi · 6 eps
The Charterhouse of Parma
Conte Mosca · 2 eps
Chère Marianne
Legarrec · 1 eps
Thanksgiving
L'homme de Mobun · 3 eps
Lanester
Professeur Vincent Gerhardt · 3 eps
