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.
as Leon Blum
as François Mitterand
as Olivier
as Louis Antelme(6 eps)
as Max
as Director
as Laurent
as Vladimir Desrosiers
as Louis Bardot(6 eps)
as Monsieur Dominique, Jim's superior at Arianespace
as Le Maire
as Robert Danjou(8 eps)
as Vaillant
as Paul
as Duc de Sully(4 eps)
as (voice)
as Philippe
as Paul Andrieux(8 eps)
as Léon Blum
as Raphaël Santi(6 eps)
as L'homme de Mobun(3 eps)
as Jacques D'Alantour(1 ep)
as Yves, le patron du club
as Bruno(12 eps)
as Benoît
as Président cour d’assises
as Zwy
as Mathieu(8 eps)
as Serge Vauban
as Le docteur Osmond(6 eps)
as Le docteur Osmond (uncredited)(2 eps)
as Ambassador Pierre Hector Chanut
as French EU Commissioner(4 eps)
as Tessier(6 eps)
as Pierre Claudel(1 ep)
as Le Commissaire
as Henri
as Vengers
as Colin
as Professeur Vincent Gerhardt(3 eps)
as Valéry Giscard d'Estaing
as Monsieur Garnier
as Le père
as Grabely
as Demeziere(1 ep)
as Raphaël Sieg
as David Azoulay
as Dulac
as Marc
as Conte Mosca(2 eps)
as le commandant Viennot
as Gaspard Signac
as Claude Guéant
as Sam
as François Etcheveria
as Rodolphe
as Jean-Louis Richepois
as Frédéric
as Executive # 1
as Simon
as Lherbier
as le docteur François Lagarde
as Claude Dédalus
as L'homme à la chemise blanche
as Jean Claude
as Marc
as Paul-Vincent
as Georges Figon, voyou au cœur du complot, ami du réalisateur Georges Franju
as Victor
as Pontignac
as François
as Hervé
as Antoine Carré
as Clifford
as Marc Bénesteau
as Félix
as Le père (Place des Victoires)
as Callaghan
as Roger
as Antoine
as Francis
as Pierre-Marie de Kersaint(6 eps)
as Bruno
as Jean-Xavier
as Paul
as Maître Marc Mamanne
as Alex
as Fatouche
as Maurice Utrillo
as Antoine
as Le ministre de la Santé
as Willian De Lille
as Camille Bazin
as Gérard
as Marc
as Judas
as Legarrec(1 ep)
as Henri
as Stan
as L'acteur
as Pierre Mercadier
as Daniel
as Victor Chmara
as Dr. Edouard Valmont
as Georges
as Philippe
as Barjo
as Tom
as Patrick Perrault
as Hippo
as Mark
as Bernard Olivier, teacher
as Philippe Devignat
as Laurent
as Vincent
as Le reporter en Afrique
as Luc
as The narrator
as Courette
as Pierre
as Fred
as Paul(1 ep)
as Pierre
as Self(1 ep)
as Robinson
as Hervé
as Friend of Michel Clément (uncredited)
as Rémi
