Hippolyte Girardot

Acting · 0.7 popularity

Age

Movies

113

Born: October 10, 1955
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.

Works

113 films

The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun

20217.0

Paris Je T'aime

20066.8

First Name: Carmen

19836.0

Descent Into Hell

19864.9

Manon of the Spring

19867.6

The Dinner Guest

20075.5

Two Pianos

20255.1

The Girl King

20156.2

Made in Paris

20065.2

Mama Weed

20205.9

The Target

19976.3

Modigliani

20047.0

House of 9

20055.1

Haute Cuisine

20126.2

Bird People

20145.9

2018 Der Ölcrash

20055.0

Laghat - Un sogno impossibile

20258.1

Fort Saganne

19846.0

Badinter

2026

Lies

2010

Park Benches

20095.4

Capital

20126.2

Incontrôlable

20064.0

Le Viol

20176.2

Inspector Blunder

19806.3

Lady Chatterley

20066.2

Flight of the Red Balloon

20076.3

Le Joueur

2026

A Christmas Tale

20086.8

Le Bon Plaisir

19845.8

La face

20165.8

Les voeux

2026

Babyphone

20236.5

The Conquest

20115.8

An Open Heart

20125.2

Parallel Parking

20077.0

An Irrepressible Woman

20205.3

Paradise Calling

19883.5

Ismael's Ghosts

20175.5

Quiet Chaos

20086.5

Love After Love

19925.5

Benedict Ironbreaker: The Red Taxis

20144.5

The Patriots

19946.7

Kings & Queen

20047.0

The Moustache

20056.1

Jésus

19999.5

L'Amour nu

19815.0

Top Floor Left Wing

20106.0

Where I've Never Lived

20175.7

L'Amour ou presque

19858.0

Trois Couples en quête d'orages

20055.6

Elisa

20256.2

It Will Happen Tonight

2026

Spy(ies)

20095.5

Long Live the Republic

19974.5

French Lovers

19855.0

Le Destin de Juliette

19837.3

La Chartreuse de Parme

20126.9

Crime Is Our Business

20085.9

The Rashevski Tango

20035.3

Love Without Pity

19897.1

One Day You'll Understand

20085.8

Le Tigre du Jardin des plantes

19829.0

Follow My Gaze

19866.2

You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet

20126.6

The Astronaut

20237.1

L'amant magnifique

19864.8

Drôle de genre

20035.3

L'Oiseau rare

20015.7

The Perfume of Yvonne

19945.6

That's Fine

20214.8

Jump Tomorrow

20016.3

Barjo

19924.9

Nos amis les flics

20045.0

Sleeping Sickness

20116.4

On the Sly

20185.5

I Got a Woman

1997

Life of Riley

20145.2

L'Aurore boréale

2013

Just a Couple of Days

20246.1

La femme de Jean

19747.0

To Life

20145.2

Playing 'In the Company of Men'

20037.3

Toxic Affair

19934.8

1914 the Glorious Summer

19964.8

Out of Life

19915.9

Le Voyage en pyjama

20244.4

Kidon

20135.0

The Girl in the Air

19926.6

The Edge

20115.9

Virus au paradis

20034.6

Off and Running

20085.4

The Robin Hoods of the Poor

20116.4

Un moment d'inattention

19867.0

Resolution 819

20086.2

Hands in the Air

20105.9

My Place in the Sun

20075.0

Premonition

20066.1

Vivre c'est mieux que mourir

20066.0

When I Was 5, I Killed Myself

19947.6

Yuki & Nina

20096.7

L'Affaire Ben Barka

20081.0

Des gens qui passent

2013

The Black Book

20208.0

La rupture

20136.0

The Prominents

2026

Si j'étais elle

20044.9

Les Héritiers

20215.7

Comme les doigts de la main

19856.2

Où avais-je la tête ?

20082.0

Un an

20067.0

Gustave Courbet: The Origins of His World

20076.0

Adèle et Kamel

20058.0