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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 DĂ©co. 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.
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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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Hippolyte Girardot's Filmography
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No Poster
Badinter
as François Mitterand
No Poster
Le Joueur
It Will Happen Tonight
as Olivier
Laghat - Un sogno impossibile
Two Pianos
as Max
Elisa
as Director
Just a Couple of Days
as Laurent
Le Voyage en pyjama
as Vladimir Desrosiers
The Astronaut
as Monsieur Dominique, Jim's superior at Arianespace
Babyphone
as Le Maire
The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun
as Chou-fleur
Les HĂ©ritiers
as Vaillant
That's Fine
as Paul
The Black Book
as (voice)
Mama Weed
as Philippe
An Irrepressible Woman
as LĂ©on Blum
On the Sly
as Yves, le patron du club
Where I've Never Lived
as BenoĂźt
Le Viol
as PrĂ©sident cour dâassises
Ismael's Ghosts
as Zwy
La face
as Serge Vauban
The Girl King
as Ambassador Pierre Hector Chanut
Benedict Ironbreaker: The Red Taxis
as Le Commissaire
To Life
as Henri
Bird People
as Vengers
Life of Riley
as Colin
La rupture
as Valéry Giscard d'Estaing
Kidon
as Monsieur Garnier
L'Aurore boréale
as Le pĂšre
Des gens qui passent
as Grabely
Capital
as Raphaël Sieg
Haute Cuisine
as David Azoulay
You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet
as Dulac
An Open Heart
as Marc
The Robin Hoods of the Poor
as le commandant Viennot
Sleeping Sickness
as Gaspard Signac
The Conquest
as Claude Guéant
The Edge
as Sam
Top Floor Left Wing
as François Etcheveria
Hands in the Air
as Rodolphe
No Poster
Lies
as Jean-Louis Richepois
Yuki & Nina
as Frédéric
Park Benches
as Executive # 1
Spy(ies)
as Simon
Resolution 819
as Lherbier
Crime Is Our Business
as le docteur François Lagarde
A Christmas Tale
as Claude DĂ©dalus
Off and Running
as L'homme Ă la chemise blanche
Quiet Chaos
as Jean Claude
Flight of the Red Balloon
as Marc
OĂč avais-je la tĂȘte ?
as Paul-Vincent
The ben barka affair
as Georges Figon, voyou au cĆur du complot, ami du rĂ©alisateur Georges Franju
One Day You'll Understand
as Victor
The Dinner Guest
as Pontignac
My Place in the Sun
as François
No Poster
Parallel Parking
as Hervé
Gustave Courbet: The Origins of His World
as (voice)
Made in Paris
as Antoine Carré
Lady Chatterley
as Clifford
Premonition
as Marc BĂ©nesteau
Un an
as FĂ©lix
Paris Je T'aime
as Le pĂšre (Place des Victoires)
Vivre c'est mieux que mourir
as Callaghan
IncontrĂŽlable
as Roger
AdĂšle et Kamel
as Antoine
House of 9
as Francis
The Moustache
as Bruno
Trois Couples en quĂȘte d'orages
as Jean-Xavier
No Poster
2018 Der Ălcrash
as Paul
Kings & Queen
as MaĂźtre Marc Mamanne
Si j'Ă©tais elle
as Alex
Nos amis les flics
as Fatouche
Modigliani
as Maurice Utrillo
The Rashevski Tango
as Antoine
Virus au paradis
as Le ministre de la Santé
Playing 'In the Company of Men'
as Willian De Lille
DrĂŽle de genre
as Camille Bazin
Jump Tomorrow
as GĂ©rard
L'Oiseau rare
as Marc
JĂ©sus
as Judas
Long Live the Republic
as Henri
The Target
as Stan
No Poster
I Got a Woman
as L'acteur
1914 the Glorious Summer
as Pierre Mercadier
The Patriots
as Daniel
The Perfume of Yvonne
as Victor Chmara
When I Was 5, I Killed Myself
as Dr. Edouard Valmont
Toxic Affair
as Georges
The Girl in the Air
as Philippe
Barjo
as Barjo
Love After Love
as Tom
Out of Life
as Patrick Perrault
Love Without Pity
as Hippo
Paradise Calling
as Mark
Manon of the Spring
as Bernard Olivier, teacher
Descent Into Hell
as Philippe Devignat
Un moment d'inattention
as Laurent
L'amant magnifique
as Vincent
Follow My Gaze
as Le reporter en Afrique
L'Amour ou presque
as Luc
No Poster
Comme les doigts de la main
as The narrator
French Lovers
Fort Saganne
as Courette
Le Bon Plaisir
as Pierre
First Name: Carmen
as Fred
Le Destin de Juliette
as Pierre
No Poster
Le Tigre du Jardin des plantes
as Robinson
L'Amour nu
as Hervé
Inspector Blunder
as Friend of Michel Clément (uncredited)
La femme de Jean
as RĂ©mi
No Poster
Les voeux
The Prominents
as Leon Blum