 In 2016 she won the Irish Film and Television Award for Best Director for her work on the 2nd series of Happy Valley.In 2017 "Happy Valley" was awarded the British Academy Television Award for Best Drama Series, with the accolade attributed to Wainwright, Hardiman, Nicola Shindler (executive producer) and Juliet Charlesworth (producer).In 2017 Hardiman directed two episodes of "", an American period drama series created for Amazon Studios that presents a fictionalized account of the life of American socialite, Zelda Fitzgerald.