Hippolyte Girardot
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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
The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun (2021)
as Chou-fleur
Two Pianos (2025)
as Max
First Name: Carmen (1983)
as Fred
Manon of the Spring (1986)
as Bernard Olivier, teacher
The Dinner Guest (2007)
as Pontignac
Le Viol (2017)
as Président cour d’assises
Paris Je T'aime (2006)
as Le père (Place des Victoires)
Bird People (2014)
as Vengers
Haute Cuisine (2012)
as David Azoulay
Parallel Parking (2007)
as Hervé
Made in Paris (2006)
as Antoine Carré
French Lovers (1985)
Actor
Lies (2010)
as Jean-Louis Richepois
Le Joueur (—)
Actor
La face (2016)
as Serge Vauban
The Target (1997)
as Stan
Le Bon Plaisir (1984)
as Pierre
An Open Heart (2012)
as Marc
The Girl King (2015)
as Ambassador Pierre Hector Chanut
Incontrôlable (2006)
as Roger
Modigliani (2004)
as Maurice Utrillo
Badinter (2026)
as François Mitterand
House of 9 (2005)
as Francis
Laghat - Un sogno impossibile (2025)
Actor
Capital (2012)
as Raphaël Sieg
Descent Into Hell (1986)
as Philippe Devignat
Lady Chatterley (2006)
as Clifford
A Christmas Tale (2008)
as Claude Dédalus
One Day You'll Understand (2008)
as Victor
2018 Der Ölcrash (2005)
as Paul
The Patriots (1994)
as Daniel
Flight of the Red Balloon (2007)
as Marc
Fort Saganne (1984)
as Courette
Love After Love (1992)
as Tom
Les voeux (—)
Actor
Le Destin de Juliette (1983)
as Pierre
The Moustache (2005)
as Bruno
Ismael's Ghosts (2017)
as Zwy
L'amant magnifique (1986)
as Vincent
Elisa (2025)
as Director
Park Benches (2009)
as Executive # 1
It Will Happen Tonight (2026)
Actor
The Rashevski Tango (2003)
as Antoine
Where I've Never Lived (2017)
as Benoît
Trois Couples en quête d'orages (2005)
as Jean-Xavier
The Conquest (2011)
as Claude Guéant
L'Aurore boréale (2013)
as Le père
Barjo (1992)
as Barjo
Paradise Calling (1988)
as Mark
Kings & Queen (2004)
as Maître Marc Mamanne
Inspector Blunder (1980)
as Friend of Michel Clément (uncredited)
Babyphone (2023)
as Le Maire
You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet (2012)
as Dulac
Mama Weed (2020)
as Philippe
Quiet Chaos (2008)
as Jean Claude
1914 the Glorious Summer (1996)
as Pierre Mercadier
I Got a Woman (1997)
as L'acteur
Kidon (2013)
as Monsieur Garnier
Playing 'In the Company of Men' (2003)
as Willian De Lille
The Perfume of Yvonne (1994)
as Victor Chmara
Jésus (1999)
as Judas
Nos amis les flics (2004)
as Fatouche
Off and Running (2008)
as L'homme à la chemise blanche
La femme de Jean (1974)
as Rémi
Crime Is Our Business (2008)
as le docteur François Lagarde
Yuki & Nina (2009)
as Frédéric
Jump Tomorrow (2001)
as Gérard
Love Without Pity (1989)
as Hippo
Out of Life (1991)
as Patrick Perrault
L'Amour nu (1981)
as Hervé
When I Was 5, I Killed Myself (1994)
as Dr. Edouard Valmont
Hands in the Air (2010)
as Rodolphe
L'Oiseau rare (2001)
as Marc
Le Tigre du Jardin des plantes (1982)
as Robinson
An Irrepressible Woman (2020)
as Léon Blum
Resolution 819 (2008)
as Lherbier
My Place in the Sun (2007)
as François
Just a Couple of Days (2024)
as Laurent
Le Voyage en pyjama (2024)
as Vladimir Desrosiers
Follow My Gaze (1986)
as Le reporter en Afrique
Spy(ies) (2009)
as Simon
Où avais-je la tête ? (2008)
as Paul-Vincent
The Astronaut (2023)
as Monsieur Dominique, Jim's superior at Arianespace
Life of Riley (2014)
as Colin
Sleeping Sickness (2011)
as Gaspard Signac
The Girl in the Air (1992)
as Philippe
Toxic Affair (1993)
as Georges
The Prominents (—)
as Leon Blum
Long Live the Republic (1997)
as Henri
On the Sly (2018)
as Yves, le patron du club
La Chartreuse de Parme (2012)
as Count Mosca
To Life (2014)
as Henri
Top Floor Left Wing (2010)
as François Etcheveria
That's Fine (2021)
as Paul
Benedict Ironbreaker: The Red Taxis (2014)
as Le Commissaire
L'Amour ou presque (1985)
as Luc
Drôle de genre (2003)
as Camille Bazin
Si j'étais elle (2004)
as Alex
L'Affaire Ben Barka (2008)
as Georges Figon, voyou au cœur du complot, ami du réalisateur Georges Franju
Des gens qui passent (2013)
as Grabely
Gustave Courbet: The Origins of His World (2007)
as (voice)
The Black Book (2020)
as (voice)
The Robin Hoods of the Poor (2011)
as le commandant Viennot
Virus au paradis (2003)
as Le ministre de la Santé
Premonition (2006)
as Marc Bénesteau
Vivre c'est mieux que mourir (2006)
as Callaghan
Les Héritiers (2021)
as Vaillant
The Edge (2011)
as Sam
Un moment d'inattention (1986)
as Laurent
Un an (2006)
as Félix
Comme les doigts de la main (1985)
as The narrator
La rupture (2013)
as Valéry Giscard d'Estaing
Adèle et Kamel (2005)
as Antoine