1955-10-10 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.
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Nous voilà grands ! | (Voice) | 2025-04-02 |
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Deux pianos | Max | 2025-10-15 |
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Elisa | Director | 2025-09-05 |
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Quelques jours pas plus | Laurent | 2024-04-03 |
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Le Voyage en pyjama | Vladimir Desrosiers | 2024-01-17 |
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L'Astronaute | Monsieur Dominique, Jim's superior at Arianespace | 2023-02-15 |
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Babyphone | Le Maire | 2023-01-13 |
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The French Dispatch | Chou-fleur | 2021-10-21 |
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Va bene così | Paul | 2021-03-26 |
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Les Héritiers | Vaillant | 2021-09-13 |
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Vie et destin du Livre noir, la destruction des Juifs d'URSS | (voice) | 2020-12-13 |
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La Daronne | Philippe | 2020-09-09 |
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Je ne rêve que de vous | Léon Blum | 2020-01-15 |
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La Surface de réparation | Yves, le patron du club | 2018-01-17 |
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Dove non ho mai abitato | Benoît | 2017-10-12 |
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Les Fantômes d'Ismaël | Zwy | 2017-05-17 |
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Le Viol | Président cour d’assises | 2017-09-19 |
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La face | Serge Vauban | 2016-05-24 |
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The Girl King | Ambassador Pierre Hector Chanut | 2015-12-11 |
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À la vie | Henri | 2014-11-26 |
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Bird People | Vengers | 2014-06-04 |
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Aimer, boire et chanter | Colin | 2014-03-26 |
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Benoît Brisefer : Les taxis rouges | Le Commissaire | 2014-12-17 |
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L'Aurore boréale | Le père | 2013-08-23 |
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Des gens qui passent | Grabely | 2013-06-04 |
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La rupture | Valéry Giscard d'Estaing | 2013-11-26 |
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כידון | Monsieur Garnier | 2013-08-24 |
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À cœur ouvert | Marc | 2012-08-08 |
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Le Capital | Raphaël Sieg | 2012-11-14 |
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Vous n'avez encore rien vu | Dulac | 2012-09-01 |
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Les Saveurs du Palais | David Azoulay | 2012-09-17 |
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La Certosa di Parma | Count Mosca | 2012-03-04 |
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Les Robins des pauvres | le commandant Viennot | 2011-10-25 |
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La Conquête | Claude Guéant | 2011-05-18 |
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La lisière | Sam | 2011-04-27 |
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Schlafkrankheit | Gaspard Signac | 2011-06-23 |
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Dernier étage gauche gauche | François Etcheveria | 2010-11-15 |
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Les Mensonges | Jean-Louis Richepois | 2010-03-10 |
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Les mains en l'air | Rodolphe | 2010-07-06 |
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Bancs publics (Versailles rive droite) | Executive # 1 | 2009-07-08 |
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Yuki & Nina | Frédéric | 2009-11-27 |
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Espion(s) | Simon | 2009-01-28 |
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Résolution 819 | Lherbier | 2008-10-27 |
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Où avais-je la tête ? | Paul-Vincent | 2008-01-23 |
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L'Affaire Ben Barka | Georges Figon, voyou au cœur du complot, ami du réalisateur Georges Franju | 2008-01-21 |
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Plus tard tu comprendras | Victor | 2008-01-01 |
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Le crime est notre affaire | le docteur François Lagarde | 2008-10-02 |
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Caos calmo | Jean Claude | 2008-02-08 |
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Passe passe | L'homme à la chemise blanche | 2008-04-16 |
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Un conte de Noël | Claude Dédalus | 2008-05-21 |
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Gustave Courbet: les origines de son monde | (voice) | 2007-01-01 |
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Le créneau | Hervé | 2007-01-31 |
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Le Voyage du ballon rouge | Marc | 2007-05-17 |
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L'Invité | Pontignac | 2007-09-19 |
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Ma place au soleil | François | 2007-03-14 |
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Vivre c'est mieux que mourir | Callaghan | 2006-05-05 |
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Un an | Félix | 2006-06-28 |
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Je pense à vous | Antoine Carré | 2006-11-29 |
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Paris, je t'aime | Le père (Place des Victoires) | 2006-06-21 |
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Le Pressentiment | Marc Bénesteau | 2006-10-04 |
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Incontrôlable | Roger | 2006-02-08 |
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Lady Chatterley | Clifford | 2006-11-01 |
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Adèle et Kamel | Antoine | 2005-11-23 |
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2018 Der Ölcrash | Paul | 2005-02-15 |
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La Moustache | Bruno | 2005-06-09 |
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House of 9 | Francis | 2005-06-19 |
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Trois couples en quête d'orages | Jean-Xavier | 2005-04-27 |
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Nos amis les flics | Fatouche | 2004-06-18 |
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Rois et Reine | Maître Marc Mamanne | 2004-12-22 |
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Si j'étais elle | Alex | 2004-12-15 |
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Modigliani | Maurice Utrillo | 2004-05-18 |
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En jouant 'Dans la compagnie des hommes' | Willian De Lille | 2003-05-15 |
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Le tango des Rashevski | Antoine | 2003-09-03 |
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Virus au paradis | Le ministre de la Santé | 2003-06-23 |
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Drôle de genre | Camille Bazin | 2003-04-11 |
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Jump Tomorrow | Gérard | 2001-11-09 |
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L'Oiseau rare | Marc | 2001-05-14 |
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Jésus | Judas | 1999-12-15 |
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I Got a Woman | L'acteur | 1997-01-01 |
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Vive la République ! | Henri | 1997-11-05 |
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La Cible | Stan | 1997-04-23 |
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Le bel été 1914 | Pierre Mercadier | 1996-08-21 |
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Les Patriotes | Daniel | 1994-05-18 |
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Le Parfum d'Yvonne | Victor Chmara | 1994-03-24 |
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Quand j'avais 5 ans je m'ai tué | Dr. Edouard Valmont | 1994-02-02 |
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Toxic Affair | Georges | 1993-05-26 |
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Après l'amour | Tom | 1992-04-15 |
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Confessions d'un Barjo | Barjo | 1992-05-12 |
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La Fille de l'air | Philippe | 1992-05-26 |
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Hors la vie | Patrick Perrault | 1991-05-15 |
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Un Monde sans pitié | Hippo | 1989-11-22 |
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Les Pyramides bleues | Mark | 1988-01-02 |
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Descente aux enfers | Philippe Devignat | 1986-11-06 |
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Manon des sources | Bernard Olivier, teacher | 1986-11-19 |
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Suivez mon regard | Le reporter en Afrique | 1986-04-23 |
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L'amant magnifique | Vincent | 1986-06-11 |
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Un moment d'inattention | Laurent | 1986-09-17 |
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L'Amour ou presque | Luc | 1985-11-20 |
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French Lovers | 1985-01-01 | |
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Comme les doigts de la main | The narrator | 1985-01-02 |
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Le Bon Plaisir | Pierre | 1984-01-18 |
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Fort Saganne | Courette | 1984-05-11 |
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Prénom Carmen | Fred | 1983-12-01 |
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Le Destin de Juliette | Pierre | 1983-09-21 |
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Le Tigre du Jardin des plantes | Robinson | 1982-01-01 |
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L'Amour nu | Hervé | 1981-10-07 |
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Inspecteur La Bavure | Friend of Michel Clément (uncredited) | 1980-12-03 |
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La femme de Jean | Rémi | 1974-03-30 |
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The Prominents | Leon Blum | |
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