Hippolyte Girardot
Known for Acting · 136 credits
- Born
- 1955-10-10 (age 70)
- Place of birth
- 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.
Known For
TV Shows (23)
Champs-Elysées
1982
as Self
Murders in...
2013
as Demeziere
The Hitchhiker
1983
as Paul
Capitaine Marleau
2015
as Pierre Claudel
Patrick Melrose
2018
as Jacques D'Alantour
Marseille
2016
as Le docteur Osmond / Le docteur Osmond (uncredited)
Occupied
2015
as French EU Commissioner
Irma Vep
2022
as Robert Danjou
Munch
2016
as Mathieu
Grand Hôtel
2020
as Paul Andrieux
No Second Chance
2015
as Tessier
Bardot
2023
as Louis Bardot
Inside
2019
as Raphaël Santi
Off Prime
2007
Paris etc.
2017
as Bruno
Chère Marianne
1999
as Legarrec
Thanksgiving
2019
as L'homme de Mobun
Voltaire in Love
2021
as Duc de Sully
Dolmen
2005
as Pierre-Marie de Kersaint
Lanester
2014
as Professeur Vincent Gerhardt
Sud-est
The Charterhouse of Parma
2012
as Conte Mosca
Rallye 82
Movies (113)
The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun
2021
as Chou-fleur
Paris Je T'aime
2006
as Le père (Place des Victoires)
Lady Chatterley
2006
as Clifford
Elisa
2025
as Director
Capital
2012
as Raphaël Sieg
The Patriots
1994
as Daniel
Incontrôlable
2006
as Roger
Manon of the Spring
1986
as Bernard Olivier, teacher
Two Pianos
2025
as Max
The Target
1997
as Stan
Fort Saganne
1984
as Courette
House of 9
2005
as Francis
First Name: Carmen
1983
as Fred
Trois Couples en quête d'orages
2005
as Jean-Xavier
Modigliani
2004
as Maurice Utrillo
Haute Cuisine
2012
as David Azoulay
The Girl King
2015
as Ambassador Pierre Hector Chanut
Ismael's Ghosts
2017
as Zwy
Mama Weed
2020
as Philippe
Descent Into Hell
1986
as Philippe Devignat
Made in Paris
2006
as Antoine Carré
Quiet Chaos
2008
as Jean Claude
Laghat - Un sogno impossibile
2025
Le Bon Plaisir
1984
as Pierre
Kidon
2013
as Monsieur Garnier
The Moustache
2005
as Bruno
Love After Love
1992
as Tom
A Christmas Tale
2008
as Claude Dédalus
Inspector Blunder
1980
as Friend of Michel Clément (uncredited)
Flight of the Red Balloon
2007
as Marc
Off and Running
2008
as L'homme à la chemise blanche
The Perfume of Yvonne
1994
as Victor Chmara
Bird People
2014
as Vengers
An Open Heart
2012
as Marc
Love Without Pity
1989
as Hippo
Kings & Queen
2004
as Maître Marc Mamanne
The Astronaut
2023
as Monsieur Dominique, Jim's superior at Arianespace
Spy(ies)
2009
as Simon
Yuki & Nina
2009
as Frédéric
Follow My Gaze
1986
as Le reporter en Afrique
The Dinner Guest
2007
as Pontignac
One Day You'll Understand
2008
as Victor
Jump Tomorrow
2001
as Gérard
Le Destin de Juliette
1983
as Pierre
Sleeping Sickness
2011
as Gaspard Signac
You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet
2012
as Dulac
Crime Is Our Business
2008
as le docteur François Lagarde
Le Viol
2017
as Président cour d’assises
Park Benches
2009
as Executive # 1
My Place in the Sun
2007
as François
Parallel Parking
2007
as Hervé
Si j'étais elle
2004
as Alex
Resolution 819
2008
as Lherbier
Playing 'In the Company of Men'
2003
as Willian De Lille
To Life
2014
as Henri
It Will Happen Tonight
2026
L'Amour nu
1981
as Hervé
Benedict Ironbreaker: The Red Taxis
2014
as Le Commissaire
Badinter
2026
as François Mitterand
Toxic Affair
1993
as Georges
Life of Riley
2014
as Colin
An Irrepressible Woman
2020
as Léon Blum
1914 the Glorious Summer
1996
as Pierre Mercadier
The Conquest
2011
as Claude Guéant
Out of Life
1991
as Patrick Perrault
Virus au paradis
2003
as Le ministre de la Santé
Where I've Never Lived
2017
as Benoît
Top Floor Left Wing
2010
as François Etcheveria
When I Was 5, I Killed Myself
1994
as Dr. Edouard Valmont
The Prominents
as Leon Blum
Des gens qui passent
2013
as Grabely
La face
2016
as Serge Vauban
The Girl in the Air
1992
as Philippe
Barjo
1992
as Barjo
Paradise Calling
1988
as Mark
The Black Book
2020
as (voice)
Un an
2006
as Félix
Le Voyage en pyjama
2024
as Vladimir Desrosiers
The Rashevski Tango
2003
as Antoine
Nos amis les flics
2004
as Fatouche
Comme les doigts de la main
1985
as The narrator
L'Affaire Ben Barka
2008
as Georges Figon, voyou au cœur du complot, ami du réalisateur Georges Franju
Just a Couple of Days
2024
as Laurent
Premonition
2006
as Marc Bénesteau
Les Héritiers
2021
as Vaillant
The Edge
2011
as Sam
Babyphone
2023
as Le Maire
Drôle de genre
2003
as Camille Bazin
La rupture
2013
as Valéry Giscard d'Estaing
Long Live the Republic
1997
as Henri
Les voeux
Où avais-je la tête ?
2008
as Paul-Vincent
La Chartreuse de Parme
2012
as Count Mosca
L'Oiseau rare
2001
as Marc
L'Aurore boréale
2013
as Le père
Vivre c'est mieux que mourir
2006
as Callaghan
Hands in the Air
2010
as Rodolphe
Le Joueur
Un moment d'inattention
1986
as Laurent
Le Tigre du Jardin des plantes
1982
as Robinson
That's Fine
2021
as Paul
La femme de Jean
1974
as Rémi
L'Amour ou presque
1985
as Luc
L'amant magnifique
1986
as Vincent
I Got a Woman
1997
as L'acteur
The Robin Hoods of the Poor
2011
as le commandant Viennot
Jésus
1999
as Judas
French Lovers
1985
Lies
2010
as Jean-Louis Richepois
On the Sly
2018
as Yves, le patron du club
Adèle et Kamel
2005
as Antoine
Gustave Courbet: The Origins of His World
2007
as (voice)
2018 Der Ölcrash
2005
as Paul
About 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 B… With 136 credits spanning from 1974 to 2026, Hippolyte Girardot has appeared in 113 films and 23 TV shows.
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- The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun (2021) — as Chou-fleur
- Paris Je T'aime (2006) — as Le père (Place des Victoires)
- Lady Chatterley (2006) — as Clifford
- Elisa (2025) — as Director
- Capital (2012) — as Raphaël Sieg
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