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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 (Oscar nominated for his film Metropolitan). 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.
In 2015, 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 of the French secret service, in the year 1960.
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!, 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.
Since 2014, he is one of the producers at Nouvelle Donne Productions.- Jeanne de Funès was born on 1 February 1914 in Nancy, Meurthe-et-Moselle, Lorraine, France. She was an actress and writer, known for Louis de Funès, la comédie humaine (2003), Louis de Funès intime (2007) and Champs-Elysées (1982). She was married to Louis de Funès. She died on 7 March 2015 in Ballainvilliers, Essonne, France.
- Actor
- Director
- Writer
Raphaël Lenglet was born on 10 December 1975 in Metz, Moselle, Lorraine, France. He is an actor and director, known for Elle (2016), High Lane (2009) and Candice Renoir (2013).- Actor
- Director
- Writer
Marc Barbé was born on 6 May 1961 in Nancy, Meurthe-et-Moselle, Lorraine, France. He is an actor and director, known for La Vie En Rose (2007), Gauguin: Voyage to Tahiti (2017) and La serre de glace (2006).- Director
- Editor
- Producer
Jean-Marie Straub was born on 8 January 1933 in Metz, Moselle, Lorraine, France. He was a director and editor, known for Class Relations (1984), The Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach (1968) and Sicily! (1999). He was married to Danièle Huillet. He died on 20 November 2022 in Rolle, Switzerland.- Actor
- Composer
- Writer
Darry Cowl was born on 27 August 1925 in Vittel, Vosges, Lorraine, France. He was an actor and composer, known for Not on the Lips (2003), Jaloux comme un tigre (1964) and Le triporteur (1957). He was married to Rolande Kalis and Nelly Marcon. He died on 14 February 2006 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, Ile-de-France, France.- Fred Doederlein was born on 24 April 1906 in Lorraine, France. He was an actor, known for Scanners (1981), Hundert Tage (1935) and Peer Gynt (1934). He was married to Ursula von Arnim. He died on 23 April 1985.
- Actor
- Writer
- Music Department
Redouanne Harjane was born on 6 February 1984 in Lorraine, France. He is an actor and writer, known for M (2017), Earth and Blood (2020) and Anything for Alice (2014).- Line Noro was born on 22 February 1900 in Houdelaincourt, Meuse, Lorraine, France. She was an actress, known for L'assommoir (1933), I Accuse (1938) and The Well-Digger's Daughter (1940). She died on 4 November 1985 in Paris, France.
- Production Manager
- Producer
- Director
Charles Henri David, writer, producer and director, was born on May 4, 1906 in the Lorraine region, in the city of Metz.
He entered the movie industry in the early 1930s, working for Pathé studios in France; he would become director of Pathé-Natan, and later in mid-1930s Head Producer (Directeur de production). There he met and worked with some of the would-be famous French directors, screenwriters and movie people of the time : Jean Renoir, Marc Allegret, Marcel Carné and the brothers Pierre and Jacques Prévert, often in his position as production manager of a series of films : Baby's Laxative (1931), La Chienne (1931) and Mam'zelle Nitouche (1931), It's in the Bag (1932) or Bizarre, Bizarre (1937).
He then started a collaboration with Zoltan and Alexander Korda, working as assistant producer in Sudan for The Four Feathers (1939) and assistant director in the British version of The Thief of Bagdad (1940).
He married his first wife Terese in 1928. They had a son and a daughter. They would later divorce.
During World War 2 Charles took the French Army uniform and served as interpreter with the RAF. The family emigrated to America in 1940 in time to escape the Nazi dominion of France. Like many other European emigrés Charles natural destiny was Hollywood. He worked as assistant producer for the Kordas in The Jungle Book (1942), he sold a story ("Fairy Tale Murder") to Universal and was offered to direct it, resulting in River Gang (1945), starring Gloria Jean. Then he became the director of Lady on a Train (1945), starring Deanna Durbin. They would wed in December 21, 1950 in France, and would stay married until his death, which took place in Paris on March 1, 1999, at the age of 92.- Music Department
- Actor
- Composer
Composer, songwriter ("When Love Has Gone"), conductor, pianist, author and arranger, he came to the USA during World War I. He was a pianist in New York Ballrooms, then organized his own orchestra and toured the US in vaudeville. He was a pianist on radio, then a music director and arranger for radio and for television networks. He joined ASCAP in 1939, and his chief musical collaborators included W. Edward Breuder and Paul Rusincky. His other song compositions include "You're Everything That's Lovely", "In the Same Old Way", "In My Little Red Book", "The Wide Open Spaces", "Sam the Vegetable Man", "Let's Make Up a Little Party", and "If You Were Mine".- Actor
- Additional Crew
- Composer
Wolf Ackva was born on 30 July 1911 in Montigny, Metz, Lorraine, Germany [now Montigny-lès-Metz, Moselle, France]. He was an actor and composer, known for The Count of Monte Cristo (1979), Die seltsamen Methoden des Franz Josef Wanninger (1965) and Die Fledermaus (1959). He was married to Els Ackva. He died on 16 January 2000 in Fahrenzhausen, Bavaria, Germany.- Charles Lemontier was born on 21 April 1894 in Toul, Meurthe-et-Moselle, Lorraine, France. He was an actor and writer, known for Crime and Punishment (1935), Ceux du rivage (1943) and Ruy Blas (1948). He died on 28 May 1965 in Paris, France.
- Madeleine Barbulée was born on 2 September 1910 in Nancy, Meurthe-et-Moselle, Lorraine, France. She was an actress, known for A Slightly Pregnant Man (1973), La maison des bories (1970) and Les Misérables (1958). She died on 1 January 2001 in Paris, France.
- Paul Demange was born on 12 April 1901 in Mirecourt, Vosges, Lorraine, France. He was an actor, known for Gigi (1949), Si Paris nous était conté (1956) and Foncouverte (1965). He was married to Marie-Renée Hablizig. He died on 28 November 1983 in Taverny, Val d'Oise, Île-de-France, France.
- Production Manager
- Additional Crew
Séverine Barré was born on 1 December 1983 in Metz, Moselle, Lorraine, France. Séverine is a production manager, known for Revenge (2017), Personal Shopper (2016) and 99 Francs (2007).- Writer
- Producer
- Actor
Walter Ulbrich was born on 15 June 1910 in Metz, Lorraine, Germany. He was a writer and producer, known for Under the Bridges (1946), The Taste of Violence (1961) and Tom Sawyers und Huckleberry Finns Abenteuer (1968). He died on 13 November 1991 in Unterpfaffenhofen, Bavaria, Germany.- Theo Shall was born on 24 February 1896 in Metz, Alsace-Lorraine, Germany [now Moselle, France]. He was an actor, known for Anna Christie (1930), Ten Minute Alibi (1935) and Ernst Thälmann - Führer seiner Klasse (1955). He died on 4 October 1955 in East Berlin, East Germany.
- Director
- Actress
- Writer
Marceline Loridan-Ivens (née Marceline Rosenberg) was an Holocaust survivor. She was born in France, the daughter of Polish Jewish parents who emigrated to France in 1919. She survived Auschwitz, Bergen-Belsen, and Theresienstadt. In WWII she was part of the Résistance. She was captured by the Gestapo and deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau (in the same transport than Simone Veil) on April 13, 1944 (she was then 16 years old). She was transferred to Bergen-Belsen and to Theresienstadt. She was liberated on May 10, 1945.
In 1963 she married Dutch documentary filmmaker Joris Ivens. They remained married until his death.- Writer
- Editor
- Producer
Maykel Stone was born on 5 May 1982 in Sarreguemines, Moselle, Lorraine, France. He is a writer and editor, known for Rien de 9 (2008) and Kaidan: Hazama no sekai (2013). He has been married to Maxime Bobin since 6 October 2018.- Robert Rollis was born on 14 March 1921 in Epinal, Vosges, Lorraine, France. He was an actor, known for La parole est au témoin (1963), La tête du client (1965) and Naughty Girl (1956). He died on 6 November 2007 in Paris, France.
- Actor
- Director
Charles Willy Kayser was born on 28 January 1881 in Metz, Lorraine, Germany [now Moselle, France]. He was an actor and director, known for Waterloo (1929), Tschetschensen-Rache (1921) and Im Trommelfeuer der Westfront (1936). He died on 10 July 1942.- Denise Bailly was born on 21 May 1912 in Nancy, Meurthe-et-Moselle, Lorraine, France. She was an actress, known for Ronde de nuit (1984), Les trois soeurs (1980) and Les brigades du Tigre (1974). She died on 18 February 2000 in Paris, France.
- Micheline Boudet was born on 28 April 1926 in Metz, Moselle, Lorraine, France. She was an actress, known for Would-Be Gentleman (1958), Le malade imaginaire (1959) and Le barbier de Séville ou La précaution inutile (1960). She was married to Julien Bertheau. She died on 5 July 2022 in Serville, Eure-et-Loir, France.
- Antoine Veil was born on 28 August 1926 in Blâmont, Meurthe-et-Moselle, Lorraine, France. He was married to Simone Veil. He died on 12 April 2013 in Paris, France.
- Director
- Editor
- Set Decorator
Laurent Marmol was born on 4 June 1971 in Nancy, Meurthe-et-Moselle, Lorraine, France. He is a director and editor, known for Whipped Cream and Chocolat Chips (2003), Vespattitude (2004) and La petite reine des Antilles (2002).- Composer
- Actor
- Music Department
Laurent Petitgand was born on 28 September 1959 in Nancy, Meurthe-et-Moselle, Lorraine, France. He is a composer and actor, known for Wings of Desire (1987), Beyond the Clouds (1995) and Fat World (1998).- Actress
- Soundtrack
Elisabeth Grümmer was born on 31 March 1911 in Niederjeutz, Alsace-Lorraine, Germany [now Yutz, Thionville, Moselle, France]. She was an actress, known for Mozart's Don Giovanni (1955), Don Giovanni (1961) and Civilisation (1969). She was married to Detlef Grümmer. She died on 6 November 1986 in Warendorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.- Jessica Plésel was born on 14 December 1962 in Le Lorrain, Martinique. She died on 6 March 2019 in Paris, France.
- Writer
- Actor
- Music Department
Eckart Hachfeld was born on 9 October 1910 in Mörchingen, Lorraine, Germany [now Morhange, Moselle, France]. He was a writer and actor, known for Ich zähle täglich meine Sorgen (1960), Das einfache Mädchen (1957) and Wenn der Vater mit dem Sohne (1955). He was married to Erika Levin. He died on 5 November 1994 in Berlin, Germany.- Actor
Victor Wetter was born on 11 June 1902 in Metz, Alsace-Lorraine, France. He was an actor. He died on 8 December 1990 in New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA.- Actor
- Writer
- Soundtrack
Roger Nicolas was born on 16 January 1919 in Toul, Meurthe-et-Moselle, Lorraine, France. He was an actor and writer, known for Le roi du bla bla bla (1950), Baratin (1956) and Mourez, nous ferons le reste (1954). He was married to Huguette Doornick and Simonne Farber. He died on 17 August 1977 in Saint-Maur-des-Fossés, Val-de-Marne, France.- Actor
- Soundtrack
Jérôme Anthony was born on 11 November 1971 in Nancy, Meurthe-et-Moselle, Lorraine, France. He is an actor, known for Cheating Love (2006), Meurtres à... (2013) and Scènes de ménages (2009).- Director
- Actress
- Writer
Karine Birgé was born in Lorraine, France. She is known for Bon Voyage (2024), Madeleine Collins (2021) and Dem Dikk (2010).- Producer
- Writer
Jean-Marie Cavada was born on 24 February 1940 in Epinal, Vosges, Lorraine, France. He is a producer and writer, known for La marche du siècle (1987), Soir 3 (1978) and Droit de réponse: l'esprit de contradiction (1981).- Marcel Bigeard was born on 14 February 1916 in Toul, Meurthe-et-Moselle, Lorraine, France. He was married to Gabrielle Grandemange. He died on 18 June 2010 in Toul, Meurthe-et-Moselle, Lorraine, France.
- André Rousselet was born on 22 October 1922 in Nancy, Meurthe-et-Moselle, Lorraine, France. He died on 29 May 2016 in France.
- Matthias Sachot was born on 22 September 1994 in Nancy, Meurthe-et-Moselle, Lorraine, France. He is an actor, known for A Childhood (2015).
- Damien Marsic was born on 16 September 1964 in Nancy, Meurthe-et-Moselle, Lorraine, France.
- Writer
- Editor
- Producer
Ghislaine Pujol was born on 27 August 1974 in Epinal, Vosges, Lorraine, France. She is a writer and editor, known for Rebrousse-temps (2008), Jade Armor (2022) and Marblegen (2018).- Director
- Producer
- Writer
Jean-Marie Drot was born on 2 March 1929 in Nancy, Meurthe-et-Moselle, Lorraine, France. He was a director and producer, known for Le musée imaginaire des personnalités (1957), Les Artistes vivants (1958) and Poètes et écrivains (1958). He was married to Marcelle Schreiner. He died on 23 September 2015 in Chatou, Île-de-France, France.- Visual Effects
- Special Effects
Gaëlle Minisini was born on 23 May 1994 in Nancy, Meurthe-et-Moselle, Lorraine, France. She is known for Annihilation (2018), Wonder Woman (2017) and Independence Day: Resurgence (2016).- Writer
- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
- Director
Toni Huppertz was born on 5 November 1900 in Sarreguemines, Moselle, Lorraine, France. Toni was a writer and assistant director, known for Soldier Comrades (1936), Das Ehesanatorium (1938) and La signora di Montecarlo (1938). Toni died in April 1945 in Marostica, Veneto, Italy.- Writer
- Actress
- Producer
Marianne Oswald was born on 9 January 1901 in Sarreguemines, Moselle, Lorraine, France. She was a writer and actress, known for Montparnasse 19 (1958), Charmant Mathurin (1957) and The Adventures of Remi (1958). She died on 25 February 1985 in Villecresnes, Val-de-Marne, France.- Aurélie Bastian was born in 1981 in Lorraine, France.
- Valerie Bergere was born on 2 February 1875 in Metz, Lorraine, Germany [now Metz, Moselle, France]. She was an actress, known for It's Love I'm After (1937), The Wild Girl (1917) and Absent Minded Abner (1932). She was married to Herbert Warren. She died on 16 September 1938 in Hollywood, California, USA.
- Georg Herzig was born on 3 July 1941 in Metz, Lorraine, Germany. He was an actor, known for Tre per una rapina (1964), Ranch of the Ruthless (1965) and Express (1968). He died on 13 June 2008 in Bonn, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
- Pierre Grappin was born on 31 May 1915 in Coussey, Vosges, Lorraine, France. He died on 14 June 1997 in France.
- Music Department
- Actor
- Soundtrack
Michel Beroff was born on 9 May 1950 in Epinal, Vosges, Lorraine, France. He is an actor, known for Camille Claudel (1988), L'Incendiaire (2014) and Camera Three (1955).- Jutta Jol was born on 4 February 1896 in Metz, Lorraine, Germany [now Metz, Moselle, France]. She was an actress, known for Der gefesselte Polo (1929), Ein Lied geht um die Welt (1933) and Love's Carnival (1924). She died on 26 October 1981 in Berlin, Germany.