Hippolyte Girardot
Hippolyte Girardot ( born October 10, 1955 in Boulogne- Billancourt, Hauts -de -Seine, Ile -de -France; actually Frédéric Girardot ) is a French actor and director.
Life
Hippolyte Girardot was born in 1955 in Boulogne- Billancourt as Frédéric Girardot. First, he wanted to be a production designer in film. After receiving his diploma from the École nationale supérieure des arts Décoratifs in Paris, he turned to the theater and switched to acting. His mother was a friend of the director Yannick Bellon, in whose film exemption from the marriage (La Femme de Jean) Girardot 1974 for the first time in front of the camera. However, until 1980, he was regularly seen on the screen. In 1985 he was awarded for his performance in Le bon Plaisir - his first nomination for a César Award for Most Promising Actor A political love affair (Le Bon plaisir ) on the side of Catherine Deneuve and Jean -Louis Trintignant.
In Claude Berri's film Manon's Revenge (Manon des sources, 1986), he starred opposite Emmanuelle Béart, Yves Montand and Daniel Auteuil. 1994 Girardot played a starring role in The Perfume of Yvonne (Le Parfum d' Yvonne ), directed by Patrice Leconte. Over the years he also acted in several television productions, as in the mystical television miniseries Dolmen - The sacrilege of the stones ( dolmens, 2005). In 2006 he was part of the star cast of the episodic film Paris, je t'aime. In the same year followed by the award-winning film adaptation Lady Chatterley, in which he played the handicapped husband of the heroine. In 2009 he delivered together with the Japanese filmmaker Nobuhiro Suwa his directorial debut titled Yuki & Nina.
With Annie Girardot he is not related. His daughter, Ana Girardot, which emerged from a relationship with actress Isabel Otero, following in the footsteps of her parents and is also active as an actress. With his wife he had three more children: Lillah, Isaac and Sven.