Hippolyte Girardot
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
- 2025 · Elisa as Director
- 2023 · The Astronaut as Monsieur Dominique, Jim's superior at Arianespace
- 2022 · Irma Vep as Robert Danjou
- 2021 · The French Dispatch as Chou-fleur
- 2020 · Mama Weed as Philippe
- 2018 · Patrick Melrose as Jacques D'Alantour
- 2016 · Munch as Mathieu
- 2015 · Occupied as French EU Commissioner
- 2015 · Capitaine Marleau as Pierre Claudel
- 2014 · To Life as Henri
- 2013 · Kidon as Monsieur Garnier
- 2013 · Murders in... as Demeziere
- 2012 · Capital as Raphaël Sieg
- 2011 · The Robin Hoods of the Poor as le commandant Viennot
- 2011 · Sleeping Sickness as Gaspard Signac
- 2011 · The Conquest as Claude Guéant
- 2009 · Spy(ies) as Simon
- 2008 · Resolution 819 as Lherbier
- 2008 · Quiet Chaos as Jean Claude
- 2007 · Flight of the Red Balloon as Marc
- 2006 · Lady Chatterley as Clifford
- 2006 · Paris Je T'aime as Le père (Place des Victoires)
- 2004 · Kings & Queen as Maître Marc Mamanne
- 2004 · Modigliani as Maurice Utrillo
- 1994 · The Patriots as Daniel
- 1992 · The Girl in the Air as Philippe
- 1991 · Out of Life as Patrick Perrault
- 1986 · Manon of the Spring as Bernard Olivier, teacher
- 1984 · Fort Saganne as Courette
- 1983 · First Name: Carmen as Fred
- 1983 · The Hitchhiker as Paul
- 1982 · Champs-Elysées as Self
- Future · The Prominents as Leon Blum
- 2025 · Two Pianos as Max
- 2021 · Voltaire in Love as Duc de Sully
- 2020 · Grand Hôtel as Paul Andrieux
- 2020 · An Irrepressible Woman as Léon Blum
- 2017 · Le Viol as Président cour d’assises
- 2017 · Ismael's Ghosts as Zwy
- 2016 · Marseille as Le docteur Osmond
- 2016 · Marseille as Le docteur Osmond (uncredited)
- 2015 · The Girl King as Ambassador Pierre Hector Chanut
- 2014 · Benedict Ironbreaker: The Red Taxis as Le Commissaire
- 2014 · Bird People as Vengers
- 2013 · La rupture as Valéry Giscard d'Estaing
- 2013 · Des gens qui passent as Grabely
- 2012 · Haute Cuisine as David Azoulay
- 2012 · An Open Heart as Marc
- 2010 · Top Floor Left Wing as François Etcheveria
- 2010 · Hands in the Air as Rodolphe
- 2009 · Yuki & Nina as Frédéric
- 2008 · Crime Is Our Business as le docteur François Lagarde
- 2008 · A Christmas Tale as Claude Dédalus
- 2008 · L'Affaire Ben Barka as Georges Figon, voyou au cœur du complot, ami du réalisateur Georges Franju
- 2007 · Off Prime as
- 2006 · Incontrôlable as Roger
- 2005 · House of 9 as Francis
- 2005 · The Moustache as Bruno
- 2001 · L'Oiseau rare as Marc
- 1994 · The Perfume of Yvonne as Victor Chmara
- 1993 · Toxic Affair as Georges
- 1992 · Barjo as Barjo
- 1986 · Descent Into Hell as Philippe Devignat
- 1986 · Un moment d'inattention as Laurent
- 1986 · Follow My Gaze as Le reporter en Afrique
- Future · It Will Happen Tonight as
- 2025 · Nous voilà grands ! as (Voice)
- 2024 · Just a Couple of Days as Laurent
- 2024 · Le Voyage en pyjama as Vladimir Desrosiers
- 2023 · Bardot as Louis Bardot
- 2023 · Babyphone as Le Maire
- 2021 · Les Héritiers as Vaillant
- 2021 · That's Fine as Paul
- 2020 · The Black Book as (voice)
- 2019 · Inside as Raphaël Santi
- 2019 · Thanksgiving as L'homme de Mobun
- 2018 · On the Sly as Yves, le patron du club
- 2017 · Paris etc. as Bruno
- 2017 · Where I've Never Lived as Benoît
- 2016 · La face as Serge Vauban
- 2015 · No Second Chance as Tessier
- 2014 · Life of Riley as Colin
- 2014 · Lanester as Professeur Vincent Gerhardt
- 2013 · L'Aurore boréale as Le père
- 2012 · You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet as Dulac
- 2012 · La Chartreuse de Parme as Count Mosca
- 2011 · The Edge as Sam
- 2010 · Lies as Jean-Louis Richepois
- 2009 · Park Benches as Executive # 1
- 2008 · Off and Running as L'homme à la chemise blanche
- 2008 · Où avais-je la tête ? as Paul-Vincent
- 2008 · One Day You'll Understand as Victor
- 2007 · The Dinner Guest as Pontignac
- 2007 · My Place in the Sun as François
- 2007 · Parallel Parking as Hervé
- 2007 · Gustave Courbet: The Origins of His World as (voice)
- 2006 · Made in Paris as Antoine Carré
- 2006 · Premonition as Marc Bénesteau
- 2006 · Un an as Félix
- 2006 · Vivre c'est mieux que mourir as Callaghan
- 2005 · Adèle et Kamel as Antoine
- 2005 · Dolmen as Pierre-Marie de Kersaint
- 2005 · Trois couples en quête d'orages as Jean-Xavier
- 2005 · 2018 Der Ölcrash as Paul
- 2004 · Si j'étais elle as Alex
- 2004 · Nos amis les flics as Fatouche
- 2003 · The Rashevski Tango as Antoine
- 2003 · Virus au paradis as Le ministre de la Santé
- 1999 · Chère Marianne as Legarrec
- 1997 · Long Live the Republic as Henri
- 1997 · The Target as Stan
- 1996 · 1914 the Glorious Summer as Pierre Mercadier
- 1992 · Love After Love as Tom
- 1989 · Love Without Pity as Hippo
- 1985 · L'Amour ou presque as Luc
- 1985 · Comme les doigts de la main as The narrator
- 1981 · L'Amour nu as Hervé
- Future · Sud-est as
- 2003 · Playing 'In the Company of Men' as Willian De Lille
- 2003 · Drôle de genre as Camille Bazin
- 2001 · Jump Tomorrow as Gérard
- 1999 · Jésus as Judas
- 1997 · I Got a Woman as L'acteur
- 1994 · When I Was 5, I Killed Myself as Dr. Edouard Valmont
- 1988 · Paradise Calling as Mark
- 1986 · L'amant magnifique as Vincent
- 1985 · French Lovers as
- 1984 · Le Bon Plaisir as Pierre
- 1983 · Le Destin de Juliette as Pierre
- 1982 · Le Tigre du Jardin des plantes as Robinson
- 1980 · Inspector Blunder as Friend of Michel Clément (uncredited)
- 1974 · La femme de Jean as Rémi