Hippolyte Girardot Biography

MARITAL STATUS
Professions Actor , Screenwriter , Editor more
Birth name Frédéric Girardot
Nationality French
Birth October 10, 1955 (Boulogne-Billancourt, Hauts-de-Seine – France)

BIOGRAPHY
A solitary child, Hippolyte Girardot seemed destined for a career as a designer. Dreaming of working as an artistic director on film sets, he successfully entered the Arts Déco competition. There, he was asked to make a series of short films with suburban teenagers, as part of a film workshop. Although he made his first appearance on screen as the son of Claude Rich in La Femme de Jean by Yannick Bellon , a friend of his mother, he did not yet consider becoming an actor, and took on more odd jobs.

Hippolyte Girardot acquired a taste for acting on the set of The Destiny of Juliette (1983) by Aline Issermann , a director he would meet again on The Magnificent Lover . Landing a nomination for the César for Most Promising Actor in 1985 for Le Bon Plaisir , this young leading man toured with Godard ( Prenom Carmen ) and took part in several major projects, notably Fort Saganne and Manon des Sources – he played the schoolteacher there. in love with Emmanuelle Béart . Consecration arrived in 1990 with A World Without Pity , a disenchanted observation by Eric Rochant : an entire generation recognized itself in his character of Hippo, an ironic and endearing slacker.

Hippolyte Girardot found a striking new role the following year, that of a photographer taken hostage in Lebanon in Hors la vie de Maroun Bagdadi . While continuing to play the slightly mysterious seducers ( After Love , Le Parfum d’Yvonne ), the actor appears more and more often in comedies: sweet-crazy in Confessions of a Barjo , he plays one of the merry unemployed from Vive la Republique! (1997), by his old accomplice Rochant .

After a few years of absence, he made a notable return in 2003 in Le Tango des Rashevskis . Welcomed into the Desplechin family , he plays a formidable businessman in Léo playing “In the Company of Men” , a trickster lawyer and drug addict in Kings and Queen (2004) and the husband of Anne Consigny in A Tale of Christmas . Other renowned authors, such as Pascal Bonitzer and Pascale Ferran ( Lady Chatterley), then called on an actor who was once again in high demand, who appeared in the credits of no less than six films in 2006. A shady doctor in Crime is Our Business , he multiplies unique experiences: Jérôme Clément ‘s alter ego in Later you will understand from Amos Gitaï , partner of Nanni Moretti in Caos Calmo , he goes behind the camera with Yuki and Nina , co-directed by Nobuhiro Suwa : a delicate work on childhood presented at the Directors’ Fortnight in 2009. He continues also to play in politically engaged films with the anticipation film Les Mains en l’air denouncing a renewal of fascism in Italy (the film takes place in 2067), the black comedy Dernier histoire, gauche, gauche (2010), in which he plays a bailiff taken hostage in an HLM or the film by Xavier Durringer , La Conquête , which recounts the rise to power of Nicolas Sarkozy and in which he is Claude Guéant, the advisor to the candidate for the Presidency.