Acting
Hippolyte Girardot
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.
Filmography
Le Joueur
Film · 2027
Badinter
Film · 2027
It Will Happen Tonight
Film · 2026
Two Pianos
Film · 2025
Elisa
Film · 2025
Laghat - Un sogno impossibile
Film · 2025
Le Voyage en pyjama
Film · 2024
Just a Couple of Days
Film · 2024
Babyphone
Film · 2023
The Astronaut
Film · 2023
Bardot
Series · 2023
Irma Vep
Series · 2022
The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun
Film · 2021
That's Fine
Film · 2021
Les Héritiers
Film · 2021
Voltaire in Love
Series · 2021
Mama Weed
Film · 2020
An Irrepressible Woman
Film · 2020
The Black Book
Film · 2020
Grand Hôtel
Series · 2020
Thanksgiving
Series · 2019
Inside
Series · 2019
On the Sly
Film · 2018
Patrick Melrose
Series · 2018
Ismael's Ghosts
Film · 2017
Le Viol
Film · 2017
Where I've Never Lived
Film · 2017
Paris etc.
Series · 2017
La face
Film · 2016
Munch
Series · 2016
Marseille
Series · 2016
Marseille
Series · 2016
The Girl King
Film · 2015
No Second Chance
Series · 2015
Occupied
Series · 2015
Capitaine Marleau
Series · 2015
Life of Riley
Film · 2014
To Life
Film · 2014
Bird People
Film · 2014
Benedict Ironbreaker: The Red Taxis
Film · 2014
Lanester
Series · 2014
Kidon
Film · 2013
La rupture
Film · 2013
Des gens qui passent
Film · 2013
L'Aurore boréale
Film · 2013
Murders in...
Series · 2013
You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet
Film · 2012
Capital
Film · 2012
An Open Heart
Film · 2012
Haute Cuisine
Film · 2012
The Charterhouse of Parma
Series · 2012
The Conquest
Film · 2011
Sleeping Sickness
Film · 2011
The Edge
Film · 2011
The Robin Hoods of the Poor
Film · 2011
Hands in the Air
Film · 2010
Top Floor Left Wing
Film · 2010
Lies
Film · 2010
Spy(ies)
Film · 2009
Park Benches
Film · 2009
Yuki & Nina
Film · 2009
Quiet Chaos
Film · 2008
One Day You'll Understand
Film · 2008
A Christmas Tale
Film · 2008
Flight of the Red Balloon
Film · 2008
Resolution 819
Film · 2008
Où avais-je la tête ?
Film · 2008
Crime Is Our Business
Film · 2008
Off and Running
Film · 2008
The ben barka affair
Film · 2008
The Dinner Guest
Film · 2007
My Place in the Sun
Film · 2007
Parallel Parking
Film · 2007
Gustave Courbet: The Origins of His World
Film · 2007
Off Prime
Series · 2007
Paris Je T'aime
Film · 2006
Lady Chatterley
Film · 2006
Premonition
Film · 2006
Made in Paris
Film · 2006
Vivre c'est mieux que mourir
Film · 2006
Incontrôlable
Film · 2006
Un an
Film · 2006
The Moustache
Film · 2005
House of 9
Film · 2005
Trois Couples en quête d'orages
Film · 2005
Adèle et Kamel
Film · 2005
2018 Der Ölcrash
Film · 2005
Dolmen
Series · 2005
Modigliani
Film · 2004
Kings & Queen
Film · 2004
Si j'étais elle
Film · 2004
Nos amis les flics
Film · 2004
The Rashevski Tango
Film · 2003
Playing 'In the Company of Men'
Film · 2003
Virus au paradis
Film · 2003
Drôle de genre
Film · 2003
Jump Tomorrow
Film · 2001
L'Oiseau rare
Film · 2001
Jésus
Film · 1999
Chère Marianne
Series · 1999
The Target
Film · 1997
Long Live the Republic
Film · 1997
I Got a Woman
Film · 1997
1914 the Glorious Summer
Film · 1996
When I Was 5, I Killed Myself
Film · 1994
The Perfume of Yvonne
Film · 1994
The Patriots
Film · 1994
Toxic Affair
Film · 1993
Barjo
Film · 1992
The Girl in the Air
Film · 1992
Love After Love
Film · 1992
Out of Life
Film · 1991
Love Without Pity
Film · 1989
Paradise Calling
Film · 1988
Manon of the Spring
Film · 1986
L'amant magnifique
Film · 1986
Descent Into Hell
Film · 1986
Follow My Gaze
Film · 1986
Un moment d'inattention
Film · 1986
L'Amour ou presque
Film · 1985
French Lovers
Film · 1985
Comme les doigts de la main
Film · 1985
Fort Saganne
Film · 1984
Le Bon Plaisir
Film · 1984
First Name: Carmen
Film · 1983
Le Destin de Juliette
Film · 1983
The Hitchhiker
Series · 1983
Le Tigre du Jardin des plantes
Film · 1982
Champs-Elysées
Series · 1982
L'Amour nu
Film · 1981
Inspector Blunder
Film · 1980
La femme de Jean
Film · 1974
The Prominents
Film
Les voeux
Film
Sud-est
Series
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Series