
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.

The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun
as Chou-fleur

Paris Je T'aime
as Le pĂšre (Place des Victoires)

Elisa
as Director

Manon of the Spring
as Bernard Olivier, teacher

Trois Couples en quĂȘte d'orages
as Jean-Xavier

The Girl King
as Ambassador Pierre Hector Chanut

House of 9
as Francis

Two Pianos
as Max

Lady Chatterley
as Clifford

Capital
as Raphaël Sieg

IncontrĂŽlable
as Roger

Modigliani
as Maurice Utrillo

Fort Saganne
as Courette

Mama Weed
as Philippe

The Patriots
as Daniel

Haute Cuisine
as David Azoulay

First Name: Carmen
as Fred

Descent Into Hell
as Philippe Devignat

Le Bon Plaisir
as Pierre

The Target
as Stan

Ismael's Ghosts
as Zwy

Love After Love
as Tom

A Christmas Tale
as Claude Dédalus

Inspector Blunder
as Friend of Michel Clément (uncredited)

Laghat - Un sogno impossibile

The Moustache
as Bruno

Made in Paris
as Antoine Carré

An Open Heart
as Marc

Flight of the Red Balloon
as Marc

The Astronaut
as Monsieur Dominique, Jim's superior at Arianespace

Out of Life
as Patrick Perrault

The Perfume of Yvonne
as Victor Chmara

Follow My Gaze
as Le reporter en Afrique

Quiet Chaos
as Jean Claude

Bird People
as Vengers

Kings & Queen
as MaĂźtre Marc Mamanne

You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet
as Dulac

L'Amour nu
as Hervé

Life of Riley
as Colin

Le Destin de Juliette
as Pierre

Sleeping Sickness
as Gaspard Signac

The Dinner Guest
as Pontignac

The Conquest
as Claude Guéant

Love Without Pity
as Hippo

Off and Running
as L'homme Ă la chemise blanche

Kidon
as Monsieur Garnier

One Day You'll Understand
as Victor

Crime Is Our Business
as le docteur François Lagarde

Barjo
as Barjo

Badinter
as François Mitterand

La face
as Serge Vauban

My Place in the Sun
as François

Jump Tomorrow
as Gérard

Spy(ies)
as Simon

It Will Happen Tonight

Nos amis les flics
as Fatouche

An Irrepressible Woman
as Léon Blum

Toxic Affair
as Georges

Benedict Ironbreaker: The Red Taxis
as Le Commissaire

1914 the Glorious Summer
as Pierre Mercadier

Park Benches
as Executive # 1

La Chartreuse de Parme
as Count Mosca

To Life
as Henri

L'Affaire Ben Barka
as Georges Figon, voyou au cĆur du complot, ami du rĂ©alisateur Georges Franju

Le Voyage en pyjama
as Vladimir Desrosiers

Paradise Calling
as Mark

The Black Book
as (voice)

Un an
as Félix

Resolution 819
as Lherbier

The Girl in the Air
as Philippe

When I Was 5, I Killed Myself
as Dr. Edouard Valmont

Virus au paradis
as Le ministre de la Santé

Long Live the Republic
as Henri

Yuki & Nina
as Frédéric

Top Floor Left Wing
as François Etcheveria

La rupture
as Valéry Giscard d'Estaing

Playing 'In the Company of Men'
as Willian De Lille

Le Viol
as PrĂ©sident cour dâassises

Si j'étais elle
as Alex

Des gens qui passent
as Grabely

Where I've Never Lived
as BenoĂźt

The Edge
as Sam

L'Oiseau rare
as Marc

OĂč avais-je la tĂȘte ?
as Paul-Vincent

L'Aurore boréale
as Le pĂšre

The Prominents
as Leon Blum

The Robin Hoods of the Poor
as le commandant Viennot

Vivre c'est mieux que mourir
as Callaghan

Hands in the Air
as Rodolphe

Parallel Parking
as Hervé

I Got a Woman
as L'acteur

La femme de Jean
as Rémi

On the Sly
as Yves, le patron du club

Les voeux

Le Joueur

L'amant magnifique
as Vincent

Les Héritiers
as Vaillant

Just a Couple of Days
as Laurent

Un moment d'inattention
as Laurent

Lies
as Jean-Louis Richepois

L'Amour ou presque
as Luc

Comme les doigts de la main
as The narrator

AdĂšle et Kamel
as Antoine

Babyphone
as Le Maire

The Rashevski Tango
as Antoine

Le Tigre du Jardin des plantes
as Robinson

DrĂŽle de genre
as Camille Bazin

2018 Der Ălcrash
as Paul

Jésus
as Judas

Premonition
as Marc Bénesteau

Gustave Courbet: The Origins of His World
as (voice)

That's Fine
as Paul
