Hugo Becker attended the Conservatory of dramatic art in France, where he received the Olga Hörstig Prize, and the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art of London.
In 2010, he was part of the promotion of Young Talents Cannes and made his screen debut in various roles, including a young politician in L'Assaut, an alcoholic hitchhiker in La Proie, a student in Ma Première Fois, and a young businessman in La Croisière.
That same year, he made his Hollywood debut, playing Louis Grimaldi, Prince of Monaco, in the CW drama Gossip Girl, initially signing on for two episodes and later extending his role for another eighteen episodes.
In 2011, he played Xavier in the American film Damsels in Distress, directed by Whit Stillman, which 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. The following year, he 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.
The following year, he played the lead role in the 12 episodes French series 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. He also starred in a main role alongside Yon González and Lluís Homar in the Spanish crime drama series Bajo sospecha, playing 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. He also 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 has been one of the producers at Nouvelle Donne Productions.