
Hippolyte Girardot
Known for ActingBorn 1955-10-10 (age 70)Boulogne-Billancourt, Hauts-de-Seine, France
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.Read more
Movies & web series
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Jésus
1999 · Movie
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Chère Marianne
1999 · Series
Le Tigre du Jardin des plantes
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Le Tigre du Jardin des plantes
1982 · Movie
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Laghat - Un sogno impossibile
2025 · Movie
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The Black Book
2020 · Movie
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Munch
2016 · Series
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Adèle et Kamel
2005 · Movie
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L'Amour ou presque
1985 · Movie
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Patrick Melrose
2018 · Series
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When I Was 5, I Killed Myself
1994 · Movie
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Murders in...
2013 · Series
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Manon of the Spring
1986 · Movie
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The Astronaut
2023 · Movie
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Playing 'In the Company of Men'
2003 · Movie
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Voltaire in Love
2021 · Series
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Occupied
2015 · Series
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The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun
2021 · Movie
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Le Destin de Juliette
1983 · Movie
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No Second Chance
2015 · Series
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Modigliani
2004 · Movie
Parallel Parking
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Parallel Parking
2007 · Movie
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Un an
2006 · Movie
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La Chartreuse de Parme
2012 · Movie
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Love Without Pity
1989 · Movie
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Kings & Queen
2004 · Movie
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Bardot
2023 · Series
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A Christmas Tale
2008 · Movie
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Un moment d'inattention
1986 · Movie
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Paris Je T'aime
2006 · Movie
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Yuki & Nina
2009 · Movie
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La femme de Jean
1974 · Movie
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Babyphone
2023 · Movie
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You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet
2012 · Movie
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Irma Vep
2022 · Series
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Lanester
2014 · Series
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The Patriots
1994 · Movie
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Champs-Elysées
1982 · Series
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The Girl in the Air
1992 · Movie
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Quiet Chaos
2008 · Movie
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Sleeping Sickness
2011 · Movie
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The Robin Hoods of the Poor
2011 · Movie
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Inside
2019 · Series
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Elisa
2025 · Movie
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Marseille
2016 · Series
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The Girl King
2015 · Movie
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Flight of the Red Balloon
2007 · Movie
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Le Viol
2017 · Movie
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Just a Couple of Days
2024 · Movie