Cast
Hippolyte Girardot
Acting
Cast
Hippolyte Girardot
Known for
Acting
Born
1955-10-10
From
Boulogne-Billancourt, Hauts-de-Seine, France
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.
★7.0
MOVIE2021
The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun
as Chou-fleur
★5.1
MOVIE2025
Two Pianos
as Max
★6.0
MOVIE1983
First Name: Carmen
as Fred
★7.6
MOVIE1986
Manon of the Spring
as Bernard Olivier, teacher
★5.5
MOVIE2007
The Dinner Guest
as Pontignac
★6.2
MOVIE2017
Le Viol
as Président cour d’assises
★6.8
MOVIE2006
Paris Je T'aime
as Le père (Place des Victoires)
★5.9
MOVIE2014
Bird People
as Vengers
★6.2
MOVIE2012
Haute Cuisine
as David Azoulay
★7.0
MOVIE2007
Parallel Parking
as Hervé
★5.2
MOVIE2006
Made in Paris
as Antoine Carré
★5.0
MOVIE1985
French Lovers
MOVIE2010
Lies
as Jean-Louis Richepois
MOVIETBA
Le Joueur
★5.8
MOVIE2016
La face
as Serge Vauban
★6.3
MOVIE1997
The Target
as Stan
★5.8
MOVIE1984
Le Bon Plaisir
as Pierre
★5.2
MOVIE2012
An Open Heart
as Marc
★6.2
MOVIE2015
The Girl King
as Ambassador Pierre Hector Chanut
★4.0
MOVIE2006
Incontrôlable
as Roger
★7.0
MOVIE2004
Modigliani
as Maurice Utrillo
MOVIE2026
Badinter
as François Mitterand
★5.1
MOVIE2005
House of 9
as Francis
★8.1
MOVIE2025
Laghat - Un sogno impossibile
★6.2
MOVIE2012
Capital
as Raphaël Sieg
★4.9
MOVIE1986
Descent Into Hell
as Philippe Devignat
★6.2
MOVIE2006
Lady Chatterley
as Clifford
★6.8
MOVIE2008
A Christmas Tale
as Claude Dédalus
★5.8
MOVIE2008
One Day You'll Understand
as Victor
★5.0
MOVIE2005
2018 Der Ölcrash
as Paul
★6.7
MOVIE1994
The Patriots
as Daniel
★6.3
MOVIE2007
Flight of the Red Balloon
as Marc
★6.0
MOVIE1984
Fort Saganne
as Courette
★5.5
MOVIE1992
Love After Love
as Tom
MOVIETBA
Les voeux
★7.3
MOVIE1983
Le Destin de Juliette
as Pierre
★6.1
MOVIE2005
The Moustache
as Bruno
★5.5
MOVIE2017
Ismael's Ghosts
as Zwy
★4.8
MOVIE1986
L'amant magnifique
as Vincent
★6.2
MOVIE2025
Elisa
as Director
★5.5
MOVIE2009
Park Benches
as Executive # 1
MOVIE2026
It Will Happen Tonight
★5.3
MOVIE2003
The Rashevski Tango
as Antoine
★5.7
MOVIE2017
Where I've Never Lived
as Benoît
★5.6
MOVIE2005
Trois Couples en quête d'orages
as Jean-Xavier
★5.9
MOVIE2011
The Conquest
as Claude Guéant
MOVIE2013
L'Aurore boréale
as Le père
★4.9
MOVIE1992
Barjo
as Barjo
★3.5
MOVIE1988
Paradise Calling
as Mark
★7.0
MOVIE2004
Kings & Queen
as Maître Marc Mamanne
★6.3
MOVIE1980
Inspector Blunder
as Friend of Michel Clément (uncredited)
★6.5
MOVIE2023
Babyphone
as Le Maire
★6.6
MOVIE2012
You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet
as Dulac
★5.9
MOVIE2020
Mama Weed
as Philippe
★6.5
MOVIE2008
Quiet Chaos
as Jean Claude
★4.8
MOVIE1996
1914 the Glorious Summer
as Pierre Mercadier
MOVIE1997
I Got a Woman
as L'acteur
★5.0
MOVIE2013
Kidon
as Monsieur Garnier
★7.3
MOVIE2003
Playing 'In the Company of Men'
as Willian De Lille
★5.6
MOVIE1994
The Perfume of Yvonne
as Victor Chmara
★9.5
MOVIE1999
Jésus
as Judas
★5.0
MOVIE2004
Nos amis les flics
as Fatouche
★5.4
MOVIE2008
Off and Running
as L'homme à la chemise blanche
★7.0
MOVIE1974
La femme de Jean
as Rémi
★5.9
MOVIE2008
Crime Is Our Business
as le docteur François Lagarde
★6.7
MOVIE2009
Yuki & Nina
as Frédéric
★6.3
MOVIE2001
Jump Tomorrow
as Gérard
★7.1
MOVIE1989
Love Without Pity
as Hippo
★5.9
MOVIE1991
Out of Life
as Patrick Perrault
★5.0
MOVIE1981
L'Amour nu
as Hervé
★7.6
MOVIE1994
When I Was 5, I Killed Myself
as Dr. Edouard Valmont
★5.9
MOVIE2010
Hands in the Air
as Rodolphe
★5.7
MOVIE2001
L'Oiseau rare
as Marc
★9.0
MOVIE1982
Le Tigre du Jardin des plantes
as Robinson
★5.3
MOVIE2020
An Irrepressible Woman
as Léon Blum
★6.2
MOVIE2008
Resolution 819
as Lherbier
★5.0
MOVIE2007
My Place in the Sun
as François
★6.1
MOVIE2024
Just a Couple of Days
as Laurent
★4.4
MOVIE2024
Le Voyage en pyjama
as Vladimir Desrosiers
★6.2
MOVIE1986
Follow My Gaze
as Le reporter en Afrique
★5.5
MOVIE2009
Spy(ies)
as Simon
★2.0
MOVIE2008
Où avais-je la tête ?
as Paul-Vincent
★7.1
MOVIE2023
The Astronaut
as Monsieur Dominique, Jim's superior at Arianespace
★5.2
MOVIE2014
Life of Riley
as Colin
★6.4
MOVIE2011
Sleeping Sickness
as Gaspard Signac
★6.6
MOVIE1992
The Girl in the Air
as Philippe
★4.8
MOVIE1993
Toxic Affair
as Georges
MOVIETBA
The Prominents
as Leon Blum
★4.5
MOVIE1997
Long Live the Republic
as Henri
★5.5
MOVIE2018
On the Sly
as Yves, le patron du club
★6.9
MOVIE2012
La Chartreuse de Parme
as Count Mosca
★5.2
MOVIE2014
To Life
as Henri
★6.0
MOVIE2010
Top Floor Left Wing
as François Etcheveria
★4.8
MOVIE2021
That's Fine
as Paul
★4.5
MOVIE2014
Benedict Ironbreaker: The Red Taxis
as Le Commissaire
★8.0
MOVIE1985
L'Amour ou presque
as Luc
★5.3
MOVIE2003
Drôle de genre
as Camille Bazin
★4.9
MOVIE2004
Si j'étais elle
as Alex
★1.0
MOVIE2008
L'Affaire Ben Barka
as Georges Figon, voyou au cœur du complot, ami du réalisateur Georges Franju
MOVIE2013
Des gens qui passent
as Grabely
★6.0
MOVIE2007
Gustave Courbet: The Origins of His World
as (voice)
★8.0
MOVIE2020
The Black Book
as (voice)
★6.4
MOVIE2011
The Robin Hoods of the Poor
as le commandant Viennot
★4.6
MOVIE2003
Virus au paradis
as Le ministre de la Santé
★6.1
MOVIE2006
Premonition
as Marc Bénesteau
★6.0
MOVIE2006
Vivre c'est mieux que mourir
as Callaghan
★5.7
MOVIE2021
Les Héritiers
as Vaillant
★5.9
MOVIE2011
The Edge
as Sam
★7.0
MOVIE1986
Un moment d'inattention
as Laurent
★7.0
MOVIE2006
Un an
as Félix
★6.2
MOVIE1985
Comme les doigts de la main
as The narrator
★6.0
MOVIE2013
La rupture
as Valéry Giscard d'Estaing
★8.0
MOVIE2005
Adèle et Kamel
as Antoine