Hippolyte Girardot

Acting · 0.8 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

Manon of the Spring

19867.6

Descent Into Hell

19864.9

First Name: Carmen

19836.0

The Girl King

20156.2

Two Pianos

20255.1

House of 9

20055.1

The Dinner Guest

20075.5

Mama Weed

20205.9

Bird People

20145.9

Lies

2010

The Target

19976.3

Modigliani

20047.0

Haute Cuisine

20126.2

Made in Paris

20065.2

Capital

20126.2

Lady Chatterley

20066.2

La face

20165.8

Badinter

2026

Le Bon Plaisir

19845.8

Fort Saganne

19846.0

2018 Der Ölcrash

20055.0

Les voeux

2026

Flight of the Red Balloon

20076.3

Inspector Blunder

19806.3

Park Benches

20095.4

Quiet Chaos

20086.5

A Christmas Tale

20086.8

Laghat - Un sogno impossibile

20258.1

Incontrôlable

20064.0

Le Viol

20176.2

Le Joueur

2026

An Open Heart

20125.2

The Moustache

20056.1

Parallel Parking

20077.0

The Patriots

19946.7

Ismael's Ghosts

20175.5

The Conquest

20115.8

French Lovers

19855.0

Le Destin de Juliette

19837.3

Kings & Queen

20047.0

L'Amour nu

19815.0

Babyphone

20236.5

Spy(ies)

20095.5

Paradise Calling

19883.5

Trois Couples en quête d'orages

20055.6

Benedict Ironbreaker: The Red Taxis

20144.5

Crime Is Our Business

20085.9

An Irrepressible Woman

20205.3

Where I've Never Lived

20175.7

Jésus

19999.5

Love After Love

19925.5

Elisa

20256.2

Top Floor Left Wing

20106.0

The Perfume of Yvonne

19945.6

One Day You'll Understand

20085.8

The Rashevski Tango

20035.3

Barjo

19924.9

Follow My Gaze

19866.2

It Will Happen Tonight

2026

L'Aurore boréale

2013

Le Tigre du Jardin des plantes

19829.0

You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet

20126.6

Virus au paradis

20034.6

The Astronaut

20237.1

Toxic Affair

19934.8

La Chartreuse de Parme

20126.9

1914 the Glorious Summer

19964.8

That's Fine

20214.8

Love Without Pity

19897.1

L'Amour ou presque

19858.0

I Got a Woman

1997

Drôle de genre

20035.3

L'amant magnifique

19864.8

La femme de Jean

19747.0

Kidon

20135.0

On the Sly

20185.5

Just a Couple of Days

20246.1

Nos amis les flics

20045.0

L'Affaire Ben Barka

20081.0

Sleeping Sickness

20116.4

Life of Riley

20145.2

L'Oiseau rare

20015.7

To Life

20145.2

Out of Life

19915.9

Le Voyage en pyjama

20244.4

Jump Tomorrow

20016.3

Long Live the Republic

19974.5

Off and Running

20085.4

Hands in the Air

20105.9

Playing 'In the Company of Men'

20037.3

Vivre c'est mieux que mourir

20066.0

The Edge

20115.9

The Girl in the Air

19926.6

Resolution 819

20086.2

When I Was 5, I Killed Myself

19947.6

The Black Book

20208.0

Des gens qui passent

2013

The Robin Hoods of the Poor

20116.4

Yuki & Nina

20096.7

Un moment d'inattention

19867.0

Premonition

20066.1

Gustave Courbet: The Origins of His World

20076.0

Si j'étais elle

20044.9

Un an

20067.0

Comme les doigts de la main

19856.2

La rupture

20136.0

My Place in the Sun

20075.0

Les Héritiers

20215.7

Où avais-je la tête ?

20082.0

The Prominents

2026

Adèle et Kamel

20058.0