Mickey Hardt was born in Switzerland and raised in Luxembourg by his
Luxembourgish father, who was a professional soccer player and his
Austrian mother who was a singer and theatre actor before becoming a
psychologist.
At the age of eight, he began training martial arts, which became one
of his lifetime passions such as playing guitar and piano. Later,
studying at the university in Brussels, he started working part-time as
a model and discovered a great interest in working in front of the
camera. He enroled in acting classes, first in Paris, then he moved to
Berlin, where, still being an acting student, he was discovered by
Donnie Yen to play the lead role in Europe's first martial arts action
series.
In 2001 he was awarded with the "Shooting Star" at the Berlin
International Filmfestival.