Marieke Hardy

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Marieke Hardy
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BornMarieke Josephine Hardy
Melbourne, Australia
Occupation
  • Writer
  • actress
  • television producer
  • radio and television presenter
  • screenwriter
  • actress
LanguageEnglish
Education
Notable works Laid
Packed to the Rafters
Last Man Standing
Short Cuts
Neighbours
Relatives Alan Hardy, Galia Hardy, Frank Hardy, Mary Hardy

Marieke Josephine Hardy is an Australian writer, radio and television presenter, television producer and screenwriter, and former television actress.

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Early life and family

Hardy is the granddaughter of Frank Hardy, author of Power Without Glory , [1] and the grandniece of comedian and radio and television presenter Mary Hardy. Her parents Alan and Galia Hardy were writers, producers and editors on several Australian television series including The Sullivans and All the Rivers Run . [2]

Hardy was raised in the Melbourne suburbs of Hawthorn East and Richmond. [3]

She was a passionate supporter of the Fitzroy Football Club until their disbandment from the AFL competition in 1996. [4]

Career

Radio

Hardy co-hosted Melbourne's 3RRR radio show Best of the Brat on Tuesday nights from April 1996 to December 2007, under the pseudonym Holly C. The show was known as "the most immature show on Australian radio". [5] Almost immediately following her departure from RRR, in January 2008 she began co-hosting the breakfast show on Triple J, the ABC's youth radio station, with Robbie Buck and Lindsay "The Doctor" McDougall. [6] In December 2009, Hardy announced she was leaving Triple J to concentrate on her writing career. [7] On 23 September 2024, it was announced that Hardy had joined former breakfast radio host Jo Stanley alongside several others for the launch of the Broad Radio radio platform, as Broad Radio had been in podcast form since 2020, Hardy had been a co-host previously. [8]

Television

Working in the entertainment industry from a young age as an actress, Hardy appeared in such television programs as The Henderson Kids II, All Together Now , Neighbours , A Country Practice and various television commercials before pursuing a career as a scriptwriter.

In 2005, Hardy co-wrote and produced a 22-episode drama series for the Seven Network called Last Man Standing . The series struggled to gain ratings for its prime-time slot [9] [10] and was cancelled after one series.

Hardy was a regular panellist (or book club member) on the ABC1 literary review show, First Tuesday Book Club . [11]

After leaving Triple J in 2010, Hardy returned to television writing, working on the Comedy Channel advertising industry sitcom 30 Seconds .

Since 2008, Hardy has written 11 episodes of Packed to the Rafters , starting with the third episode of the first series. She has written episodes for every series up to the fourth.

In 2011, with Kirsty Fisher, she co-created and co-wrote a six-part TV series Laid for the ABC. [12]

Newspaper columnist and blog

Hardy formerly penned a blog called Reasons You Will Hate Me under the pseudonym "Ms Fits" [13] which won a Bloggie award for Best Australia/New Zealand blog in 2008. [14]

She wrote commentary columns for The Age newspaper's "Green Guide" TV section ("Back Chat") and "Life & Style" ("formally A2") section, as well a contributing to Frankie magazine. She resigned from the "Green Guide" in November 2009 due to other writing commitments. [15]

Books

Hardy signed a two-book deal with publishers Allen & Unwin, and the first of those books, You'll Be Sorry When I'm Dead, was published in 2011. She began working on the second, a novel, in 2012. [16]

Other work

Hardy started a left-wing political apparel brand with designer Sara-Jane Chase called Polichicks in 2003. [17]

As of October 2008, Hardy became a committed vegan [18] [19] [20] [21] after completing a one-week challenge set by her Triple J co-presenter Lindsay McDougall.

Since 2010, she and writer Michaela McGuire have co-hosted the popular international literary public event Women of Letters, in which five or six women read letters they have written on a set theme. [22]

In October 2010, an article on the Liberal Party politician Christopher Pyne written by Hardy on the ABC The Drum blog site was withdrawn on the grounds that it "failed to meet the standards for argument and well-thought opinion". A public apology was issued to Pyne by The Drum editor "for both the attack and for its deeply personal nature". [23]

In August 2017, it was announced that Hardy would join the annual Melbourne Writers Festival as the event's Artistic Director. She resigned from her three-year contract, with effect December 2019. [24]

Ancestry

Filmography

Feature films
YearTitleCrew roleRoleNotesRef.
1997True Love and ChaosOut of it Woman [25]
Television
YearTitleCrew roleRoleNotesRef.
2013 Mr & Mrs Murder Writer"En Vogue" (#1.3)
2011–present Laid Co-creator, series writer and co-producerAll episodes [26]
2010 Spirited Writer"Cats in the Cradle" (#1.6) [27]
Talkin' 'Bout Your Generation HerselfEpisode: #2.5 [28]
2008–2011 Packed to the Rafters Series writerVarious episodes [29]
2007 Marx and Venus WriterUnknown episodes [30]
2005 Last Man Standing Series writer and producerAll episodes [31]
2003 The Sleepover Club WriterVarious episodes [32]
2002 Short Cuts Series writerJosephine CoxonAll episodes [31]
2001 McLeod's Daughters Writer"Playing to Win" (#1.16) [33]
Always Greener WriterVarious episodes [34]
Horace and Tina WriterVarious episodes [35]
Wild KatWriterVarious episodes [36]
Something in the Air WriterVarious episodes [37]
1998 Thunderstone WriterSophieVarious episodes [38]
Stingers Lara Kelly"Jelly Babies" (#1.9) [39]
Raw FM Lucina"Raw'n'Sore" (#1.8) [40]
1995–2003 Neighbours WriterRhonda BrumbyVarious episodes [41]
1994 Ocean Girl Script assistantUnknown episodes [42]
A Country Practice Yesterday Hubble"Over The Edge" (#1.23) [43]
1993 The Late Show Passer-by in "Kelvin, Son of Melvin, Son of Alvin"Uncredited (#2.17) [44]
R.F.D.S Zoe Solomon [45]
1991 All Together Now WriterUnknown episodes [46]
1987 The Henderson Kids II Sally Marshall [47]

Bibliography

Children's fiction

Humour

Play

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  2. ↑ Sullivan, Jayne: Why Marieke's the natural choice for our first m-book, The Age , 7 October 2009.
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