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Hippolyte Girardot

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69 Years Old

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.

Born

Boulogne-Billancourt, Hauts-de-Seine, France on 10th October 1955

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