Complex sentence: Hardy was born in Hammersmith, London, the only child of Anne ("née " Barrett), an artist and painter whose family was of Irish descent, and Edward"Chips" Hardy, a novelist and comedy writer.
Split into simpler sentences: Hardy was born in Hammersmith, London, the only child of Anne ("née " Barrett) and Edward"Chips" Hardy. His mother is an artist and painter whose family was of Irish descent, and his father is a novelist and comedy writer.