Marieke Josephine Hardy (born 26 May 1976) is an Australian writer, radio and television presenter, television producer and screenwriter and former television actress. Early life and family Hardy is the granddaughter of Frank Hardy, author of Power Without Glory, 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. Hardy was raised in the Melbourne suburbs of Hawthorn East, Victoria and Richmond, Victoria. Hardy was educated at Carey Baptist Grammar School and Swinburne Senior Secondary College in Melbourne. 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". 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. In December 2009, Hardy announced she was leaving Triple J to concentrate on her writing career. 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 and was cancelled after one series. Hardy was a regular panelist (or book club member) on the ABC1 literary review show, First Tuesday Book Club. 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. Newspaper columnist and blog Hardy formerly penned a blog called Reasons You Will Hate Me under the pseudonym "Ms Fits" which won a Bloggie award for Best Australia/New Zealand blog in 2008. She wrote commentary columns for The Age newspaper's "Green Guide" TV section ("Back