
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.

Jésus

Vie et destin du Livre noir, la destruction des Juifs d'URSS

Munch

Chère Marianne

Quand j'avais 5 ans je m'ai tué

愛と宿命の泉 PART II/泉のマノン

パトリック・メルローズ

Laghat - Un sogno impossibile

Léo, en jouant « Dans la compagnie des hommes »

Meurtres à...

Les Aventures du jeune Voltaire

静かなる侵略

Un Monde sans pitié

L'Astronaute

Modigliani

Le Destin de Juliette

フレンチ・ディスパッチ ザ・リバティ、カンザス・イヴニング・サン別冊

Une chance de trop

キングス&クイーン

La Certosa di Parma

クリスマス・ストーリー

パリ、ジュテーム

Bardot

ユキとニナ

Vous n'avez encore rien vu

La femme de Jean

Les Patriotes

Babyphone

Irma Vep

Lanester

Caos calmo

Schlafkrankheit

La Fille de l'air

Les Robins des pauvres

Elisa

À l'intérieur

Champs-Elysées

Inspecteur La Bavure

Jump Tomorrow

Marseille

Le Voyage du ballon rouge

王となった少女

Le Viol

Résolution 819

大統領の料理人

Lady Chatterley

Quelques jours pas plus

The Hitchhiker

Grand Hôtel

ザ・キャピタル マネーにとりつかれた男

La Moustache

Fort Saganne

Suivez mon regard

La rupture

Vivre c'est mieux que mourir

カルメンという名の女

L'Oiseau rare

Gustave Courbet: les origines de son monde

Capitaine Marleau

La lisière

Le crime est notre affaire

Bird People

La Conquête

Les mains en l'air

La Daronne

Hors la vie

Plus tard tu comprendras

Le Pressentiment

Dernier étage gauche gauche

La face

Le Bon Plaisir

Dove non ho mai abitato

Les Héritiers

La Cible

Espion(s)

Le Parfum d'Yvonne

Les Fantômes d'Ismaël

Off Prime

L'Invité

La Surface de réparation

Bancs publics (Versailles rive droite)

Passe passe

À cœur ouvert

Après l'amour

Je ne rêve que de vous

Je pense à vous

Aimer, boire et chanter

À la vie

כידון

House of 9

Deux Pianos

Ma place au soleil

Nos amis les flics

Va bene così

Descente aux enfers

Confessions d'un Barjo

Le tango des Rashevski

Le bel été 1914

Le Voyage en pyjama

Trois couples en quête d'orages

Benoît Brisefer : Les taxis rouges

Toxic Affair

L'Amour nu

Si j'étais elle

Thanksgiving

Vive la République !

Incontrôlable

Dolmen

Paris etc.

Drôle de genre

L'amant magnifique

Virus au paradis

Les Pyramides bleues

Où avais-je la tête ?

French Lovers

L'Affaire Ben Barka

L'Amour ou presque

Des gens qui passent

Adèle et Kamel

L'Aurore boréale

Un an

Un moment d'inattention

The Prominents

La certosa di Parma