Mike Hardy was born in Salt Lake City, UT. He came into the acting business late, but he'd always enjoyed escaping into movie theaters, living vicariously through the exciting worlds presented on the big screen. His first exposure to the acting world was in 1982, working as an extra on The Capture of Grizzly Adams. In 1988 he signed with Kristi's Modeling and Talent Agency in Scottsdale Arizona, where he was encouraged to audition for theater. That year, he was cast as Roy Selridge in a summer stock production of Biloxi Blues. In 1989, having moved back to Utah, he won the role of Master of Ceremonies in a Broadway musical revue. He then started 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 was 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 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, for the Midvale Main Street Theater, writing and selling two original short film scripts, including Darker Side of the Moon which screened at the 2014 Salt Lake Comic Con festival.
