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
Deux pianos
2025
Nous voilà grands !
(Voice)
2025
Just a Couple of Days
Laurent
2024
Le Voyage en pyjama
Vladimir Desrosiers
2024
Bardot
Louis Bardot · (6 episodes)
2023
The Astronaut
Monsieur Dominique, Jim's superior at Arianespace
2023
Babyphone
Le Maire
2023
Irma Vep
Robert Danjou · (8 episodes)
2022
The French Dispatch
Chou-fleur
2021
Les Héritiers
Vaillant
2021
That's Fine
Paul
2021
Voltaire in Love
Duc de Sully · (4 episodes)
2021
The Black Book
(voice)
2020
Mama Weed
Philippe
2020
Grand Hôtel
Paul Andrieux · (8 episodes)
2020
An Irrepressible Woman
Léon Blum
2020
Inside
Raphaël Santi · (6 episodes)
2019
Thanksgiving
L'homme de Mobun · (3 episodes)
2019
Patrick Melrose
Jacques D'Alantour · (1 episode)
2018
On the Sly
Yves, le patron du club
2018
Paris etc.
Bruno · (12 episodes)
2017
Where I've Never Lived
Benoît
2017
Le Viol
Président cour d’assises
2017
Ismael's Ghosts
Zwy
2017
Munch
Mathieu · (8 episodes)
2016
La face
Serge Vauban
2016
Marseille
Le docteur Osmond · (6 episodes)
2016
Marseille
Le docteur Osmond (uncredited) · (2 episodes)
2016
The Girl King
Ambassador Pierre Hector Chanut
2015
Occupied
French EU Commissioner · (4 episodes)
2015
No Second Chance
Tessier · (6 episodes)
2015
Lanester
Professeur Vincent Gerhardt · (3 episodes)
2014
Murders in...
Demeziere · (1 episode)
2013
Off Prime
(2 episodes)
2007
Gustave Courbet, the Origins of His World
(voice)
2007
Un moment d'inattention
Laurent
1986
The Prominents
Leon Blum
Dolmen
Pierre-Marie de Kersaint · (6 episodes)
2005
I Got a Woman
L'acteur
1997
It Will Happen Tonight
Chère Marianne
Legarrec · (1 episode)
1999
The Hitchhiker
Paul · (1 episode)
1983
Sud-est
(1 episode)
Capitaine Marleau
Pierre Claudel · (1 episode)
2015
Benedict Ironbreaker: The Red Taxis
Le Commissaire
2014
To Life
Henri
2014
Bird People
Vengers
2014
Life of Riley
Colin
2014
La rupture
Valéry Giscard d'Estaing
2013
Kidon
Monsieur Garnier
2013
L'Aurore boréale
Le père
2013
Des gens qui passent
Grabely
2013
Capital
Raphaël Sieg
2012
Haute Cuisine
David Azoulay
2012
You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet
Dulac
2012
An Open Heart
Marc
2012
La Chartreuse de Parme
Count Mosca
2012
The Robin Hoods of the Poor
le commandant Viennot
2011
Sleeping Sickness
Gaspard Signac
2011
The Conquest
Claude Guéant
2011
The Edge
Sam
2011
Top Floor Left Wing
François Etcheveria
2010
Hands in the Air
Rodolphe
2010
Yuki & Nina
Frédéric
2009
Park Benches
Executive # 1
2009
Spy(ies)
Simon
2009
Resolution 819
Lherbier
2008
Crime Is Our Business
le docteur François Lagarde
2008
A Christmas Tale
Claude Dédalus
2008
Off and Running
L'homme à la chemise blanche
2008
Quiet Chaos
Jean Claude
2008
Où avais-je la tête ?
Paul-Vincent
2008
L'Affaire Ben Barka
Georges Figon, voyou au cœur du complot, ami du réalisateur Georges Franju
2008
One Day You'll Understand
Victor
2008
The Dinner Guest
Pontignac
2007
Flight of the Red Balloon
Marc
2007
My Place in the Sun
François
2007
Parallel Parking
Hervé
2007
Made in Paris
Antoine Carré
2006
Lady Chatterley
Clifford
2006
Premonition
Marc Bénesteau
2006
Un an
Félix
2006
Paris Je T'aime
Le père (Place des Victoires)
2006
Vivre c'est mieux que mourir
Callaghan
2006
Incontrôlable
Roger
2006
Adèle et Kamel
2005
House of 9
Francis
2005
The Moustache
Bruno
2005
Trois couples en quête d'orages
Jean-Xavier
2005
2018 Der Ölcrash
Paul
2005
Kings & Queen
Maître Marc Mamanne
2004
Si j'étais elle
Alex
2004
Nos amis les flics
Fatouche
2004
Modigliani
Maurice Utrillo
2004
The Rashevski Tango
Antoine
2003
Virus au paradis
Le ministre de la Santé
2003
Playing 'In the Company of Men'
Willian De Lille
2003
Drôle de genre
Camille Bazin
2003
Jump Tomorrow
Gérard
2001
L'Oiseau rare
Marc
2001
Jésus
Judas
1999
Long Live the Republic
Henri
1997
The Target
Stan
1997
1914 the Glorious Summer
Pierre Mercadier
1996
The Patriots
Daniel
1994
The Perfume of Yvonne
Victor Chmara
1994
When I Was 5, I Killed Myself
Dr. Edouard Valmont
1994
Toxic Affair
Georges
1993
The Girl in the Air
Philippe
1992
Barjo
Barjo
1992
Love After Love
Tom
1992
Out of Life
Patrick Perrault
1991
Love Without Pity
Hippo
1989
Les pyramides bleues
Mark
1988
Manon of the Spring
Bernard Olivier, teacher
1986
Descent Into Hell
Philippe Devignat
1986
L'amant magnifique
Vincent
1986
Follow My Gaze
Le reporter en Afrique
1986
L'Amour ou presque
Luc
1985
Comme les doigts de la main
The narrator
1985
French Lovers
1985
Fort Saganne
Courette
1984
Le Bon Plaisir
Pierre
1984
First Name: Carmen
Fred
1983
Le Destin de Juliette
Pierre
1983
Champs-Elysées
Self · (1 episode)
1982
Le Tigre du Jardin des plantes
Robinson
1982
L'Amour nu
Hervé
1981
Inspector Blunder
Friend of Michel Clément (uncredited)
1980
La femme de Jean
Rémi
1974