Hippolyte Girardot
Acting • Born 1955-10-10
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.
Filmography
136 credits
Babyphone
Movie • 2023
Le Maire
Paris Je T'aime
Movie • 2006
Le père (Place des Victoires)
Lady Chatterley
Movie • 2006
Clifford
Fort Saganne
Movie • 1984
Courette
Manon of the Spring
Movie • 1986
Bernard Olivier, teacher
The Astronaut
Movie • 2023
Monsieur Dominique, Jim's superior at Arianespace
Quiet Chaos
Movie • 2008
Jean Claude
One Day You'll Understand
Movie • 2008
Victor
Premonition
Movie • 2006
Marc Bénesteau
A Christmas Tale
Movie • 2008
Claude Dédalus
Flight of the Red Balloon
Movie • 2007
Marc
Jump Tomorrow
Movie • 2001
Gérard
Modigliani
Movie • 2004
Maurice Utrillo
Spy(ies)
Movie • 2009
Simon
The Dinner Guest
Movie • 2007
Pontignac
Love Without Pity
Movie • 1989
Hippo
The Rashevski Tango
Movie • 2003
Antoine
When I Was 5, I Killed Myself
Movie • 1994
Dr. Edouard Valmont
Resolution 819
Movie • 2008
Lherbier
Kings & Queen
Movie • 2004
Maître Marc Mamanne
Park Benches
Movie • 2009
Executive # 1
L'amant magnifique
Movie • 1986
Vincent
The Perfume of Yvonne
Movie • 1994
Victor Chmara
Made in Paris
Movie • 2006
Antoine Carré
La femme de Jean
Movie • 1974
Rémi
The Moustache
Movie • 2005
Bruno
The Conquest
Movie • 2011
Claude Guéant
Out of Life
Movie • 1991
Patrick Perrault
My Place in the Sun
Movie • 2007
François
House of 9
Movie • 2005
Francis
Yuki & Nina
Movie • 2009
Frédéric
Sleeping Sickness
Movie • 2011
Gaspard Signac
Descent Into Hell
Movie • 1986
Philippe Devignat
Hands in the Air
Movie • 2010
Rodolphe
Barjo
Movie • 1992
Barjo
Où avais-je la tête ?
Movie • 2008
Paul-Vincent
Crime Is Our Business
Movie • 2008
le docteur François Lagarde
You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet
Movie • 2012
Dulac
Le Bon Plaisir
Movie • 1984
Pierre
Capital
Movie • 2012
Raphaël Sieg
1914 the Glorious Summer
Movie • 1996
Pierre Mercadier
Follow My Gaze
Movie • 1986
Le reporter en Afrique
Playing 'In the Company of Men'
Movie • 2003
Willian De Lille
Virus au paradis
Movie • 2003
Le ministre de la Santé
An Open Heart
Movie • 2012
Marc
The Edge
Movie • 2011
Sam
Top Floor Left Wing
Movie • 2010
François Etcheveria
Haute Cuisine
Movie • 2012
David Azoulay
Trois couples en quête d'orages
Movie • 2005
Jean-Xavier
The Girl in the Air
Movie • 1992
Philippe
Toxic Affair
Movie • 1993
Georges
Love After Love
Movie • 1992
Tom
Drôle de genre
Movie • 2003
Camille Bazin
Life of Riley
Movie • 2014
Colin
Kidon
Movie • 2013
Monsieur Garnier
Off and Running
Movie • 2008
L'homme à la chemise blanche
Paradise Calling
Movie • 1988
Mark
La rupture
Movie • 2013
Valéry Giscard d'Estaing
Jésus
Movie • 1999
Judas
To Life
Movie • 2014
Henri
Si j'étais elle
Movie • 2004
Alex
Bird People
Movie • 2014
Vengers
La Chartreuse de Parme
Movie • 2012
Count Mosca
Le Voyage en pyjama
Movie • 2024
Vladimir Desrosiers
The Girl King
Movie • 2015
Ambassador Pierre Hector Chanut
Just a Couple of Days
Movie • 2024
Laurent
Vivre c'est mieux que mourir
Movie • 2006
Callaghan
First Name: Carmen
Movie • 1983
Fred
L'Amour ou presque
Movie • 1985
Luc
Le Destin de Juliette
Movie • 1983
Pierre
Des gens qui passent
Movie • 2013
Grabely
The Target
Movie • 1997
Stan
Adèle et Kamel
Movie • 2005
Antoine
La face
Movie • 2016
Serge Vauban
2018 Der Ölcrash
Movie • 2005
Paul
The Robin Hoods of the Poor
Movie • 2011
le commandant Viennot
Ismael's Ghosts
Movie • 2017
Zwy
Long Live the Republic
Movie • 1997
Henri
L'Aurore boréale
Movie • 2013
Le père
Benedict Ironbreaker: The Red Taxis
Movie • 2014
Le Commissaire
L'Oiseau rare
Movie • 2001
Marc
Le Viol
Movie • 2017
Président cour d’assises
On the Sly
Movie • 2018
Yves, le patron du club
Where I've Never Lived
Movie • 2017
Benoît
The Patriots
Movie • 1994
Daniel
Parallel Parking
Movie • 2007
Hervé
L'Amour nu
Movie • 1981
Hervé
French Lovers
Movie • 1985
Mama Weed
Movie • 2020
Philippe
Comme les doigts de la main
Movie • 1985
The narrator
Le Tigre du Jardin des plantes
Movie • 1982
Robinson
An Irrepressible Woman
Movie • 2020
Léon Blum
Incontrôlable
Movie • 2006
Roger
Nos amis les flics
Movie • 2004
Fatouche
The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun
Movie • 2021
Chou-fleur
L'Affaire Ben Barka
Movie • 2008
Georges Figon, voyou au cœur du complot, ami du réalisateur Georges Franju
Inspector Blunder
Movie • 1980
Friend of Michel Clément (uncredited)
Un an
Movie • 2006
Félix
The Black Book
Movie • 2020
(voice)
That's Fine
Movie • 2021
Paul
Un moment d'inattention
Movie • 1986
Laurent
Gustave Courbet: The Origins of His World
Movie • 2007
(voice)
Les Héritiers
Movie • 2021
Vaillant
Two Pianos
Movie • 2025
Max
The Prominents
Movie
Leon Blum
I Got a Woman
Movie • 1997
L'acteur
It Will Happen Tonight
Movie
Elisa
Movie • 2025
Director
Lies
Movie • 2010
Jean-Louis Richepois
Le Joueur
Movie
Laghat - Un sogno impossibile
Movie • 2025
Badinter
Movie • 2026
Voltaire in Love
TV • 2021
Duc de Sully
The Hitchhiker
TV • 1983
Paul
Patrick Melrose
TV • 2018
Jacques D'Alantour
Dolmen
TV • 2005
Pierre-Marie de Kersaint
Murders in...
TV • 2013
Demeziere
No Second Chance
TV • 2015
Tessier
Irma Vep
TV • 2022
Robert Danjou
Lanester
TV • 2014
Professeur Vincent Gerhardt
Occupied
TV • 2015
French EU Commissioner
Paris etc.
TV • 2017
Bruno
Munch
TV • 2016
Mathieu
Thanksgiving
TV • 2019
L'homme de Mobun
Inside
TV • 2019
Raphaël Santi
Sud-est
TV
Bardot
TV • 2023
Louis Bardot
Capitaine Marleau
TV • 2015
Pierre Claudel
Chère Marianne
TV • 1999
Legarrec
Champs-Elysées
TV • 1982
Self
Marseille
TV • 2016
Le docteur Osmond
Marseille
TV • 2016
Le docteur Osmond (uncredited)
Grand Hôtel
TV • 2020
Paul Andrieux
Off Prime
TV • 2007
Rallye 82
TV
The Charterhouse of Parma
TV • 2012
Conte Mosca