Hugo Becker

Hugo Becker

Born: May 13, 1987
in Metz, Moselle, France
Hugo Becker (born 13 May 1987) is a French actor, director and producer. He is known for his roles as Louis Grimaldi in the American drama television series Gossip Girl and Romain in the French thriller series Chefs.

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 a BBC3 series.

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 in the 12 episodes French series entitled Au service de la France, written by Jean-François Halin, for the 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.

Source: Article "Hugo Becker" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

Movies for Hugo Becker...

Here and There
Title: Here and There
Character: Julien Bergeron
Released: April 17, 2024
Type: Movie
A visa problem forces Adrien back to Paris after 15 years in Senegal with his wife Aminata. Her cousin Sékou, now distanced from his Senegalese origins, takes in Adrien. As Adrien awaits his return, Sékou shows him France, sparking surprises.
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Title: La Peste
Character: Sylvain Rambert
Released: March 4, 2024
Type: TV
A series of murders take place in 16th-century Seville, where the plague has taken hold; a condemned man faces the Inquisition as he attempts to save the son of a friend by speaking out.
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Title: The New Look
Character: Hervé
Released: February 13, 2024
Type: TV
The shocking story of how fashion icon Christian Dior and his contemporaries including Coco Chanel, Pierre Balmain, and Cristóbal Balenciaga navigated the horrors of World War Il and launched modern fashion.
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Tall
Title: Tall
Character: Sylvain
Released: August 25, 2023
Type: Movie
Hugo is 17 and a member of a handball new talent program, an institution that trains professional athletes. A brilliant and committed player, he is preparing for a crucial match that will determine his career. But the day before the event, his coach has him sit on the bench for substitutes.
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Apaches: Gang of Paris
Title: Apaches: Gang of Paris
Character: Bel Œil
Released: March 29, 2023
Type: Movie
Paris, 1884. The lives of three orphaned children wandering the streets dominated by ruthless criminals change tragically when they carry out a daring robbery.
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For My Country
Title: For My Country
Character: David
Released: February 8, 2023
Type: Movie
Aissa, a young officer of Algerian origin, tragically loses his life during a fresher initiation ritual at the prestigious French military academy of Saint-Cyr. As the death tears through his family, controversy arises over Aissa’s funeral plans when the Army refuses to take responsibility. Ismael, his older, rebellious brother, tries to keep the family united as they fight to win justice for Aissa.
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Vaincre ou mourir
Title: Vaincre ou mourir
Character: Charette
Released: January 25, 2023
Type: Movie
1793, French Revolution. For three years now, Charette, a young man retired from the Royal Navy, has been back home. In the country, the anger of the peasants rumbles: they call on the young retiree to take command of the rebellion. In a few months, the idle sailor becomes a charismatic leader and a shrewd strategist, bringing in his wake peasants, deserters, women, old people and children, of which he makes a formidable army. The fight for freedom has only just begun.
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Ride Above
Title: Ride Above
Character: Pierre
Released: December 21, 2022
Type: Movie
Growing up among horses at her parents' stud farm, Zoé dreams of becoming a jockey and forms a deep bond with a young horse. A terrible accident threatens to end their racing careers, but they fight to reach victory together.
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Title: The King’s Favorite
Character: Henri II
Released: November 7, 2022
Type: TV
It follows Diane de Poitiers, an emeritus huntress whose unalterable beauty fuels rumors and legends during her lifetime - and even in her death.
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The Pilot
Title: The Pilot
Character: Daniel
Released: February 2, 2022
Type: Movie
A drone pilot in Mali whose wife and daughter are kidnapped by terrorists. They will be executed if he doesn't derail the capture by his team of the head of a jihadist network.
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The Last Journey
Title: The Last Journey
Character: Paul W.R
Released: May 19, 2021
Type: Movie
The red moon threatens our existence on earth. Our only hope is the enigmatic Paul WR, the most talented astronaut of its generation. But few hours before the start of the mission, Paul disappears.
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Title: Leonardo
Character: Thierry
Released: March 23, 2021
Type: TV
A fresh look at the life and legacy of the iconic artist Leonardo da Vinci, positing that he was a gay outsider who used his work as a way of hiding his true self. Each episode will examine one of da Vinci’s artworks for hidden clues about a tortured artist struggling for perfection.
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Title: Je te promets
Character: Paul Gallo
Released: February 1, 2021
Type: TV
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Title: Osmosis
Character: Paul Vanhove
Released: March 29, 2019
Type: TV
In Paris of the near future, a dating app matches singles with their soul mates by mining their brain data. But decoding true love comes at a price.
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New Biz in the Hood
Title: New Biz in the Hood
Character: Mike
Released: February 27, 2019
Type: Movie
Fred Bartel is the charismatic boss of a trendy Parisian communication agency, Happy Few. After a heated tax audit, he was forced by the administration to relocate overnight his company in La Courneuve. Fred and his team meet Samy, a young suburb who will quickly propose to teach them the rules and practices to adopt in this new environment.
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Paradise Beach
Title: Paradise Beach
Character: Franck
Released: February 20, 2019
Type: Movie
A team of former robbers arrived at Paradise: Phuket, southern Thailand. Now traders, they are happy days. Until the day when the devil arrives: Mehdi, sentenced to 15 years in prison during the robbery, comes to recover his share of the cake.
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Deux gouttes d'eau
Title: Deux gouttes d'eau
Character: Antoine / Tom Delvoye
Released: October 19, 2018
Type: Movie
A woman's dead body is found in her apartment on a winter morning. All the evidence points to her fiancé. But he has an identical twin brother. The detectives have to go beyond appearances and defeat their demons to find the true murderer.
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Title: Tu vivras ma fille
Character: Simon Laffargue
Released: September 8, 2018
Type: TV
When Nathalie learns that her 3-month-old daughter has a fatal orphan disease, she decides to do everything to save her. Is there no treatment? When she find it, nobody wants to finance it? She will move heaven and earth to find the funds and the authorizations. Bianca must be operated before her 6 year, after it will be too late.
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Death in the Soul
Title: Death in the Soul
Character: Tristan Delmas
Released: January 31, 2018
Type: Movie
Marc Lagnier confesses to the murder of his adored son, but refuses to explain.
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The Night Just Before the Forests
Title: The Night Just Before the Forests
Character: l'Homme
Released: June 11, 2017
Type: Movie
Using all the words he can find, a man tries to get a stranger to stay around—a stranger he approached on a street corner, one night when he was alone. He tells him about his world. A suburb where it rains, where everyone is a stranger, where no one works anymore; a nocturnal world that he is passing through, to flee, without looking back; he tells him about everything and about love, things one never talks about, except to a stranger like this one, a child perhaps, silent and motionless.
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1971, Motorcycle Heart
Title: 1971, Motorcycle Heart
Character: Christian Ravel
Released: June 10, 2017
Type: Movie
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Un jour mon prince
Title: Un jour mon prince
Character: Guillaume
Released: January 17, 2017
Type: Movie
There are almost a hundred years that The Sleeping Beauty is asleep No prince charming responsible for waking found favor in his eyes or, if it does not wake up, the world of fairies disappear.
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Mystery at the Opera Garnier
Title: Mystery at the Opera Garnier
Character: Paul Santerre
Released: January 6, 2017
Type: Movie
The Paris opera house is about to give a performance of Carmen, when a young usherette is killed in one of the boxes. Faustine must prove her fiancé’s innocence before it’s too late.
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Title: Baron Noir
Character: Cyril Balsan
Released: February 8, 2016
Type: TV
In a tale of epic scale, French politician Philippe Rickwaert thirsts for revenge against his political enemies. Philippe’s political career is in shambles after he is sacrificed by the presidential candidate from the Left, Francis Laugier, in order to save his election. Step by step, Philippe plots against him and forges an alliance with his closest advisor, Amélie Dorendeu.
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The Last Journey of the Enigmatic Paul W.R
Title: The Last Journey of the Enigmatic Paul W.R
Character: Paul W.R.
Released: December 7, 2015
Type: Movie
The red moon threatens our existence on earth. Our only hope is the the most talented astronaut of his generation, the enigmatic Paul W.R. But a few hours before the start of the Great Mission, Paul disappears.
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Title: A Very Secret Service
Character: André Merlaux
Released: October 29, 2015
Type: TV
At the height of the Cold War in 1960, André Merlaux joins the French Secret Service and contends with enemies both foreign and bureaucratic.
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Title: Call My Agent!
Character: Éric, le producteur
Released: October 14, 2015
Type: TV
At a top Paris talent firm, agents scramble to keep their star clients happy—and their business afloat—after an unexpected crisis.
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Title: The Mystery of Matter: Search for the Elements
Character: Antoine Lavoisier
Released: August 19, 2015
Type: TV
An exciting three-part series about one of the great adventures in the history of science: the long and continuing quest to understand what the world is made of. Three hour-long episodes tell the story of seven of history’s most important scientists as they seek to identify, understand and organize the basic building blocks of matter.
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Title: Bajo sospecha
Character: Alain Juillard
Released: February 17, 2015
Type: TV
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Our Faust
Title: Our Faust
Character: L'autostoppeur
Released: February 13, 2015
Type: Movie
One of the misfortunes of Boris Vian - and a misfortune for those who love him - is to be born and especially to be dead a bit too soon to have known the new wave. We saw him actor in "A pocket love" and "The Bel Age", Pierre Kast, in "Dangerous Liaisons 1960", Roger Vadim, where he held the role of Prévan, which was like a glove . His friend Prévert had designed him the cardinal's role in "Notre-Dame de Paris" by Delannoy. But never did Boris dare to put on the stage what he had written for the screen: he believed the thing impossible. An episode from the tv-mini-series "Collection rue des ravissantes: Boris Vian fait son cinéma."
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Title: Chefs
Character: Romain
Released: February 11, 2015
Type: TV
Every year Le Chef (English: The Chef), owner of the restaurant Le Paris, and a figure in French cuisine incorporates a young offender on probation into his team. Romain, just released from prison, arrives in this new world where gastronomy and excellence mix. After a difficult integration, he shows a real talent for cooking and climbs the ranks.
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Où es-tu maintenant ?
Title: Où es-tu maintenant ?
Character: Mathieu Delmas
Released: October 18, 2014
Type: Movie
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The Hitchhiker
Title: The Hitchhiker
Character: The hitchhiker
Released: August 26, 2014
Type: Movie
A couple runs over a cyclist with their car, but a hitchhiker appears before they can get rid of the lifeless body. They allow the hitchhiker to join them, not knowing what he saw. Doubts overtake them. Playing on the ambiguity of the situation, the hitchhiker will not let the couple come out of this intact.
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Breathe In
Title: Breathe In
Character: Clément
Released: January 18, 2013
Type: Movie
When a foreign exchange student arrives in a small upstate New York town, she challenges the dynamics of her host family's relationships and alters their lives forever.
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Damsels in Distress
Title: Damsels in Distress
Character: Xavier
Released: April 6, 2012
Type: Movie
A trio of beautiful girls set out to revolutionize life at a grungy American university: the dynamic leader Violet Wister, principled Rose and sexy Heather. They welcome transfer student Lily into their group which seeks to help severely depressed students with a program of good hygiene and musical dance numbers.
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Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré
Title: Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré
Released: November 25, 2011
Type: Movie
Time: 7 pm. Place: a mansion in the rue du Faubourg Saint Honoré. A wealthy industrial family is preparing to celebrate the engagement of their only son, a brilliant businessman, to a beautiful young woman. But she seems lost and alone, surrounded by luxury she has rarely experienced ... a moment of doubt ... is she making the right choice?
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Title: Mystère à Paris
Character: Paul Senterre
Released: June 10, 2011
Type: TV
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The Prey
Title: The Prey
Character: L'étudiant auto-stoppeur
Released: April 12, 2011
Type: Movie
A robber escapes from prison with a single objective in mind: to track down his former cellmate, a serial killer who intends to pin his crimes on him. A cop is sent after the robber who, despite his best efforts, soon becomes Public Enemy Number One. As the protagonists are driven to their limits, it becomes increasingly unclear who is the hunter and who is the prey.
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The Assault
Title: The Assault
Character: Leroy
Released: January 17, 2011
Type: Movie
December 1994. On Saturday 24th, four GIA terrorists hijack an Air France A300 Airbus, bound for Paris, with 227 passengers on board, at the Algiers airport.
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Title: Gossip Girl
Character: Louis Grimaldi
Released: September 19, 2007
Type: TV
An exclusive group of privileged teens from a posh prep school on Manhattan's Upper East Side whose lives revolve around the blog of the all-knowing albeit ultra-secretive Gossip Girl.
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Title: Les Disparues de la gare
Character: Franck Vidal
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: TV
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La bonne étoile
Title: La bonne étoile
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
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Title: Concordia
Character: Alexandre
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: TV
Powered by AI surveillance, CONCORDIA is the town of the future and on the verge of expansion when twin catastrophes strike: the first ever murder and a hack of its AI tech. A team race to solve both crimes but, in doing so, uncover a shocking original sin that could bring everything crumbling down.
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Title: Cette nuit-là
Character: Arnaud Fresnel
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: TV