Hauer-King was inspired to get into the entertainment industry thanks to his mother, Debra Hauer, who was an actor, director, and producer before she became a therapist. "I owe a lot of my love of theatre to her," Hauer-King told Broadway World in October 2016. "She'd always take me to shows, and she gave me quite a diverse exposure to the theatre world. Though I grew up with it, I never really admitted to myself that I wanted to act until my mid-teens."
The reason it took so long for Hauer-King to come to the realization that he wanted to become an actor was that his parents said the industry came with a lot of "uncertainty" and "instability." However, once his mind was made up, he said his parents were "hugely supportive" of his dreams.
He went on to appear in TV series like "Howards End," "Little Women," and "World on Fire," as well as films like "The Last Photograph" and "A Dog's Way Home."
