Robert de Hoog was born in Leiderdorp (near Leiden), The Netherlands on November 18th, 1988. He was raised in Alphen aan den Rijn and now lives in Amsterdam. In 2008 he was accepted by the Amsterdam drama academy. In that same year Robert played his first feature film role in Skin (2008/II). Skin (2008/II) is about a Jewish boy that turns skinhead, based on the first racial murder in The Netherlands. For his performance in Skin (2008/II) Robert won the Golden Calf for Best Actor at the 'Netherlands Film Festival'. He was also nominated for an International Emmy Award as Best Actor. Robert and Skin (2008/II) director Hanro Smitsman joined forces again for the Dutch thriller Schemer (2010) (aka Dusk). The cast consists of promising young Dutch talents such as Gaite Jansen , Matthijs van de Sande Bakhuyzen and Melody Klaver . De Hoog also starred in The Domino Effect (2010) by director Paula van der Oest .

He got an actual nose bleed during the filming of one of the scenes of Skin (2008/II). The scene made it to the final cut.