Mike Hardy

Mike Hardy was born in Salt Lake City, UT. He came into the acting business late, after pursuing a string of mundane and unsatisfying career paths, but he'd always enjoyed escaping into movie theaters, living vicariously through the exciting worlds presented on the big screen.

His first chance to work on a live film set was in 1982, working as an extra on The Capture of Grizzly Adams, but it wasn't until 1988 when he decided to test the waters, joining Kristi's Modeling and Talent Agency in Scottsdale Arizona, where he was encouraged to audition for theater and was hired as an extra on three additional films.

That same year, he was cast as Roy Selridge in a summer stock production of Biloxi Blues. In 1989, he won the role of Master of Ceremonies for a Broadway musical review presented by the Church Of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, (you know... the Mormons), although not an active member.

He then entered into a five year run with Pages Lane Theatre in Centerville, UT., performing in family themed theater and musical productions including The Unsinkable Molly Brown, You Can't Take it With You and The Miracle Worker.

During this time, he began working steadily as a stand-in on the TV series Touched by an Angel, Promised Land, Everwood, numerous movie of the weeks and feature films.

He has been represented by Talent Management Group in Salt Lake for nearly twenty years, working in dozens of commercials, industrial and print jobs.

In 1996, he was cast in his first feature film, Nightfall, and the USA Original Movie, UnaBomber: The True Story.

In the ensuing years he studied a rotating syllabus of acting for the camera, accents and dialects, acting theory and an introduction to Shakespeare under Frank Gerrish's Fastudio workshop.

His other accomplishments to date include writing and directing the original short film, Invisible, directing his first stage production, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, writing and selling two original short film scripts, and spec work on several other short and feature screenplays.

He plans on moving to the Los Angeles area by years end to continue his adventures in the film industry.