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