Becker attended the Conservatory of Dramatic Art in France, the court Florent (Olga Hörstig Prize) and the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art of London. He was part of the promotion of Young Talents Cannes in 2010. That same year, he made his debut on screen in a variety of roles. He played a young politician in ''
L'Assaut, directed by Julien Leclercq, an alcoholic hitchhiker in La Proie'', directed by Eric Valette, a student in Marie-Castille Mention Schaar's
Ma Première Fois and a young businessman in
La Croisière, by Pascale Pouzadoux. In 2010, he made his debut in
Hollywood, playing Louis Grimaldi, Prince of Monaco, in the
CW drama
Gossip Girl. Initially, he signed on for two episodes in the fourth season. Later, his role was extended for another eighteen episodes. In 2011, he played Xavier in the American film
Damsels in Distress, directed by
Whit Stillman. The film closed the 68th Venice Film Festival and was selected at the Toronto Film Festival. In 2012, Becker starred as Antoine Lavoisier in the American docufiction
Mystery of the Matter, directed by Mr. Meyer. In 2013, Hugo played Isaac Dreyfuss, a football star involved in a terrorist affair, for two episodes of the
BBC1 series
Silent Witness. In 2014, he played the role of Romain in the 6 episodes of the miniseries
Chefs alongside
Clovis Cornillac, for which he received the Adami Prize for the best promising actor at the Luchon festival. Since 2014, he has been one of the producers at Nouvelle Donne Productions. In 2015 and 2018, he played the lead role of André Merlaux, a young recruit to the French secret service in the year 1960, in the two seasons (24 episodes) of the French television series
Au service de la France, known in English as
A Very Secret Service. In 2016, he began playing the role of Cyril Balsan in the political drama series
Baron Noir alongside
Niels Arestrup,
Kad Merad and
Anna Mouglalis. In the same year, he starred in a main role alongside
Yon González and
Lluís Homar in the Spanish crime drama series
Bajo sospecha. He played the role of a police officer infiltrated to find a missing person in a hospital in Madrid. He also played the role of Guillaume in the comedy
Un jour mon prince, directed by Flavia Coste. In 2018, he starred in Xavier Durringer's
Paradise Beach alongside
Sami Bouajila,
Kool Shen,
Seth Gueko and
Tewfik Jallab. In the same year, he starred in ''Jusqu'ici tout va bien'', by Mohamed Hamidi, alongside
Gilles Lellouche,
Malik Bentalha and
Sabrina Ouazani. In 2019, he starred as Paul Vanhove in the
Netflix science fiction series
Osmosis. He is set to play a role as Paul WR in ''Le dernier voyage de l'énigmatique Paul W.R.
by Romain Quirot and as Max in the film Döner'' directed by Jean-Luc Herbulot. Hugo Becker is fluent in
English and
Spanish. ==Filmography==