Hugo Becker

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 LAssaut directed by Julien Leclercq an alcoholic hitchhiker in La Proie directed by Eric Valette a student in MarieCastille Mention Schaars 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 JeanFrançois 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 Durringers Paradise Beach alongside Sami Bouajila Kool Shen Seth Gueko and Tewfik Jallab In the same year he starred in Jusquici 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 lénigmatique Paul WR by Romain Quirot and as Max in the film Döner directed by JeanLuc Herbulot Hugo Becker is fluent in English and Spanish Source Article Hugo Becker from Wikipedia in English licensed under CCBYSA 30