Hemant Mahaur was born on 18 August 1976 in Agra, the city of the Taj Mahal in Uttar Pradesh in Northern India in a middle-class family.
He began appearing on stage at the age of six when he took part in his school plays in Hatharas city in Uttar Pradesh.
[citation needed] Hemant Mahaur is science graduate from the Meerut University, with specialisation in biology.
During his college days he started working seriously under theater activists Panchanan Patak and Lalit Mohan Thapaliyal and did many plays as an actor during 1989 to 1994 in Delhi.
[citation needed] Hemant Mahaur did a one-year diploma course in theater from the Sriram Center (SCR), New Delhi, in the year 1994–95.