# Linda Hardy

Linda Hardy (born 11 October 1973) is a French actress, model and beauty pageant titleholder.

## Life and career

Hardy won the title of Miss France in 1992, and represented her country at Miss Universe 1992, Miss World 1992, and Miss Europe 1992.
She then launched an acting career in French cinema, beginning with the 1999 film Recto-verso, which was followed by her role as Charlotte in the TV series H in 2000.
Internationally, her best-known role to date has been as the blue-haired, blue-teared, mutant-woman-turning-human, Jill, in the 2004 science-fiction film, Immortel (released in North America as Immortal). In the film, Hardy is dubbed by an English-speaking actress (Barbara Weber-Scaff), except for one piece of dialogue delivered in her French.
Another of her roles was in a 2006 film titled A House Divided, also known as Mount of Olives. The film tells the story of Romi (Eion Bailey), a Jewish American who falls in love with Joleh (Hardy), a Palestinian woman.
She has also had roles in the film Le Souffleur and the short film Dernière chance. In addition, she has made a number of appearances on television.
From 2010-2019, she appeared in a number of further films and TV series, as below. In 2019, she participated in the tenth season of Danse avec les stars, the French version of Dancing with the Stars. She was partnered with professional dancer Christophe Licata. On November 2, 2019, they were eliminated finishing 5th out of 10.

## Filmography

| Year | Title | Role | Director | Notes |
| 1999 | Recto-verso | Anne | Jean-Marc Longval | |
| 2000-01 | H | Charlotte Strauss | Éric Lartigau, Peter Kassovitz, ... | TV series (8 episodes) |
| 2004 | Immortal | Jill Bioskop | Enki Bilal | |
| 2004 | Dernière chance | The woman | Gaël Cabouat | Short |
| 2004 | Le juge est une femme | Manon | Patrick Poubel | TV series (1 episode) |
| 2005 | Le souffleur | Clara | Guillaume Pixie | |
| 2007 | Léthé | | Antonin Martin-Hilbert | Short |
| 2007 | La taupe | Laure Fanisse | Vincenzo Marano | TV movie |
| 2007 | Martin Paris | Anastasia | Douglas Law | TV movie |
| 2007 | Le vrai coupable | Eva Marie Sebastian | Francis Huster | TV movie |
| 2007 | Le fantôme du lac | Jeanne | Philippe Niang | TV movie |
| 2007 | Commissaire Cordier | Régina Enescu | Henri Helman | TV series (1 episode) |
| 2008 | A House Divided | Joleh Khalid | Mitch Davis | |
| 2008 | A Man and His Dog | | Francis Huster | |
| 2008 | Tu peux garder un secret ? | Nina | Alexandre Arcady | |
| 2008 | La vie à une | Karine | Frédéric Auburtin | TV movie |
| 2008-10 | Section de recherches | Claire Linsky | Gérard Marx, Olivier Barma, ... | TV series (18 episodes) |
| 2009 | La taupe 2 | Laure Fanisse | Vincenzo Marano | TV movie |
| 2009 | L'école du pouvoir | Mathilde Weber | Raoul Peck | TV movie |
| 2009 | The Philanthropist | Isabelle | Duane Clark | TV series (1 episode) |
| 2010 | Undercovers | Carmine | Dan Attias | TV series (1 episode) |
| 2012 | Josephine, Guardian Angel | Aurélia Sternin | Pascal Heylbroeck | TV series (1 episode) |
| 2012-13 | Enquêtes réservées | Diane Delange | Étienne Dhaene, Bénédicte Delmas, ... | TV series (11 episodes) |
| 2012-14 | Mafiosa | Livia Tavera | Hugues Pagan & Pierre Leccia | TV series (11 episodes) |
| 2013 | The Love Punch | Glaxo secretary | Joel Hopkins | |
| 2014 | R.I.S, police scientifique | Lilou | Hervé Brami & Olivier Barma | TV series (4 episodes) |
| 2017 | Mon poussin | Jeanne | Frédéric Forestier | |
| 2017 | Des amours, désamour | Julie | Dominic Bachy | |
| 2017 | Nina | Sabine | Éric Le Roux | TV series (1 episode) |
| 2018 | Le juge est une femme | Hélène Rozan | Jean-Christophe Delpias | TV series (1 episode) |
| Since 2018 | Tomorrow is Ours | Clémentine Doucet | Jérôme Navarro, Thierry Peythieu, ... | TV series (114 episodes) |
| 2019 | Commissaire Magellan | | Stéphane Kopecky | TV series (1 episode) |

## Theater

| Year | Title | Author | Director |
| 2002 | Putain de soirée ! | Daniel Colas | Daniel Colas |
| 2007 | Eva | Nicolas Bedos | Daniel Colas |
| 2008 | Bains de minuit | Jack William Sloane | Daniel Colas |
| 2012 | Ladies Night | Stephen Sinclair & Anthony McCarten | Thierry Laval |
| 2015-17 | Un certain Charles Spencer Chaplin | Daniel Colas | Daniel Colas |

## Personal life

She is mother of a boy, Andréa, born in 2010.