Mikkel Becker Hilgart graduated from the Danish School of Performing Arts in Aarhus in 2016. He grew up in Birkerød and began his career as an actor at the age of 11 and was part of Limenas in Birkerød for five years. At the age of 14, he was accepted to the Fairy Tale Theatre's Drama School in Søborg. He had the lead role in the Fairy Tale Theatre's performance of 1001 Nights and in the fall of 2009 played the lead role in a musical in the Glass Hall in Tivoli. Mikkel Becker Hilgart has performed on stages at the Royal Danish Theatre, Husets Theatre, and Nørrebro Theatre, and starred in the TV2 series The New Nurses (2018).