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Known For
Acting
Birthday
October 10, 1955
Place of Birth
Boulogne-Billancourt, Hauts-de-Seine, France
Hippolyte Girardot
0.3 Popularity
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.
Known For
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Badinter
2026
7.5
Laghat - Un sogno impossibile
2025
5.2
Max
Two Pianos
2025
6.4
Director
Elisa
2025
6.1
Laurent
Just a Couple of Days
2024
4.8
Vladimir Desrosiers
Le Voyage en pyjama
2024
6.7
Louis Bardot
Bardot
2023
7.1
Monsieur Dominique, Jim's superior at Arianespace
The Astronaut
2023
6.5
Le Maire
Babyphone
2023
6.5
Robert Danjou
Irma Vep
2022
Credits
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Badinter
2026
0.0
Laghat - Un sogno impossibile
2025
7.5
Two Pianos
as Max
2025
5.2
Elisa
as Director
2025
6.4
Just a Couple of Days
as Laurent
2024
6.1
Le Voyage en pyjama
as Vladimir Desrosiers
2024
4.8
Bardot
as Louis Bardot
2023
6.7
The Astronaut
as Monsieur Dominique, Jim's superior at Arianespace
2023
7.1
Babyphone
as Le Maire
2023
6.5
Irma Vep
as Robert Danjou
2022
6.5
The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun
as Chou-fleur
2021
7.0
Les Héritiers
as Vaillant
2021
5.7
That's Fine
as Paul
2021
4.8
Voltaire in Love
as Duc de Sully
2021
7.1
The Black Book
as (voice)
2020
8.0
Mama Weed
as Philippe
2020
5.8
Grand Hôtel
as Paul Andrieux
2020
6.1
An Irrepressible Woman
as Léon Blum
2020
5.3
Inside
as Raphaël Santi
2019
6.3
Thanksgiving
as L'homme de Mobun
2019
4.3
Patrick Melrose
as Jacques D'Alantour
2018
7.6
On the Sly
as Yves, le patron du club
2018
5.5
Paris etc.
as Bruno
2017
3.9
Where I've Never Lived
as Benoît
2017
5.7
Le Viol
as Président cour d’assises
2017
6.2
Ismael's Ghosts
as Zwy
2017
5.6
Munch
as Mathieu
2016
8.1
La face
as Serge Vauban
2016
5.8
Marseille
as Le docteur Osmond
2016
6.2
Marseille
as Le docteur Osmond (uncredited)
2016
6.2
The Girl King
as Ambassador Pierre Hector Chanut
2015
6.2
Occupied
as French EU Commissioner
2015
7.1
No Second Chance
as Tessier
2015
7.0
Capitaine Marleau
as Pierre Claudel
2015
6.0
Benedict Ironbreaker: The Red Taxis
as Le Commissaire
2014
4.5
To Life
as Henri
2014
5.2
Bird People
as Vengers
2014
5.9
Life of Riley
as Colin
2014
5.2
Lanester
as Professeur Vincent Gerhardt
2014
6.5
La rupture
as Valéry Giscard d'Estaing
2013
6.0
Kidon
as Monsieur Garnier
2013
5.1
L'Aurore boréale
as Le père
2013
0.0
Des gens qui passent
as Grabely
2013
0.0
Murders in...
as Demeziere
2013
7.3
Capital
as Raphaël Sieg
2012
6.1
Haute Cuisine
as David Azoulay
2012
6.2
You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet
as Dulac
2012
6.7
An Open Heart
as Marc
2012
5.3
The Charterhouse of Parma
as Conte Mosca
2012
0.0
La Chartreuse de Parme
as Count Mosca
2012
6.9
The Robin Hoods of the Poor
as le commandant Viennot
2011
6.4
Sleeping Sickness
as Gaspard Signac
2011
6.4
The Conquest
as Claude Guéant
2011
5.9
The Edge
as Sam
2011
5.9
Top Floor Left Wing
as François Etcheveria
2010
5.8
Hands in the Air
as Rodolphe
2010
6.0
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Lies
as Jean-Louis Richepois
2010
0.0
Yuki & Nina
as Frédéric
2009
6.7
Park Benches
as Executive # 1
2009
5.3
Spy(ies)
as Simon
2009
5.5
Resolution 819
as Lherbier
2008
6.2
Crime Is Our Business
as le docteur François Lagarde
2008
5.9
A Christmas Tale
as Claude Dédalus
2008
6.8
Off and Running
as L'homme à la chemise blanche
2008
5.4
Quiet Chaos
as Jean Claude
2008
6.5
Où avais-je la tête ?
as Paul-Vincent
2008
2.0
L'Affaire Ben Barka
as Georges Figon, voyou au cœur du complot, ami du réalisateur Georges Franju
2008
1.0
One Day You'll Understand
as Victor
2008
5.8
The Dinner Guest
as Pontignac
2007
5.5
Flight of the Red Balloon
as Marc
2007
6.2
Off Prime
2007
5.5
My Place in the Sun
as François
2007
5.0
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Parallel Parking
as Hervé
2007
7.0
Gustave Courbet: The Origins of His World
as (voice)
2007
6.0
Made in Paris
as Antoine Carré
2006
5.3
Lady Chatterley
as Clifford
2006
6.1
Premonition
as Marc Bénesteau
2006
5.8
Un an
as Félix
2006
0.0
Paris Je T'aime
as Le père (Place des Victoires)
2006
6.8
Vivre c'est mieux que mourir
as Callaghan
2006
6.0
Incontrôlable
as Roger
2006
4.0
Adèle et Kamel
as Antoine
2005
0.0
House of 9
as Francis
2005
5.0
Dolmen
as Pierre-Marie de Kersaint
2005
3.9
The Moustache
as Bruno
2005
6.1
Trois couples en quête d'orages
as Jean-Xavier
2005
4.5
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2018 Der Ölcrash
as Paul
2005
5.0
Kings & Queen
as Maître Marc Mamanne
2004
7.0
Si j'étais elle
as Alex
2004
4.3
Nos amis les flics
as Fatouche
2004
4.9
Modigliani
as Maurice Utrillo
2004
7.0
The Rashevski Tango
as Antoine
2003
4.6
Virus au paradis
as Le ministre de la Santé
2003
3.5
Playing 'In the Company of Men'
as Willian De Lille
2003
7.2
Drôle de genre
as Camille Bazin
2003
3.7
Jump Tomorrow
as Gérard
2001
6.2
L'Oiseau rare
as Marc
2001
6.0
Jésus
as Judas
1999
9.0
Chère Marianne
as Legarrec
1999
8.0
Long Live the Republic
as Henri
1997
4.0
The Target
as Stan
1997
5.6
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I Got a Woman
as L'acteur
1997
0.0
1914 the Glorious Summer
as Pierre Mercadier
1996
4.6
The Patriots
as Daniel
1994
6.6
The Perfume of Yvonne
as Victor Chmara
1994
5.5
When I Was 5, I Killed Myself
as Dr. Edouard Valmont
1994
7.8
Toxic Affair
as Georges
1993
4.4
The Girl in the Air
as Philippe
1992
6.4
Barjo
as Barjo
1992
4.7
Love After Love
as Tom
1992
5.3
Out of Life
as Patrick Perrault
1991
5.8
Love Without Pity
as Hippo
1989
7.2
Paradise Calling
as Mark
1988
3.0
Manon of the Spring
as Bernard Olivier, teacher
1986
7.6
Descent Into Hell
as Philippe Devignat
1986
4.7
Un moment d'inattention
as Laurent
1986
0.0
L'amant magnifique
as Vincent
1986
3.5
Follow My Gaze
as Le reporter en Afrique
1986
6.0
L'Amour ou presque
as Luc
1985
0.0
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Comme les doigts de la main
as The narrator
1985
5.8
French Lovers
1985
1.0
Fort Saganne
as Courette
1984
6.0
Le Bon Plaisir
as Pierre
1984
5.7
First Name: Carmen
as Fred
1983
6.0
The Hitchhiker
as Paul
1983
6.1
Le Destin de Juliette
as Pierre
1983
7.0
Champs-Elysées
as Self
1982
6.3
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Le Tigre du Jardin des plantes
as Robinson
1982
0.0
L'Amour nu
as Hervé
1981
4.2
Inspector Blunder
as Friend of Michel Clément (uncredited)
1980
6.3
La femme de Jean
as Rémi
1974
6.6
The Prominents
as Leon Blum
N/A
0.0
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It Will Happen Tonight
N/A
0.0
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Le Joueur
N/A
0.0
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Rallye 82
N/A
0.0
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Sud-est
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0.0