Lydia Hearst is a talented actress and supermodel who is the great-granddaughter of publishing scion William Randolph Hearst. Born in New Haven, Connecticut, she has spent time living in Los Angeles, New York City, London, and Paris. As a child, she spent time on the set of John Waters' films with her mother, Patricia Hearst, which inspired her to pursue a career in entertainment.
Lydia has a passion for acting, writing, and developing film scripts. After graduating from Wilton High School, she enrolled in Sacred Heart University where she majored in Communications and Technology. However, her career took a different turn when she was discovered by fashion photographer Steven Meisel in 2003 and put on the cover of Vogue Italia in April 2004.
As a supermodel, Lydia has covered countless fashion magazines in Italy, France, Korea, Japan, Latin America, and the United States. She has worked with some of the greatest photographers in the world, including Steven Meisel, Patrick DeMarchelier, Ellen Von Unwerth, Mario Testino, Paulo Roversi, Inez van Lamsweerde & Vinoodh Matadin, Bettina Rheims, Mark Abrams, Peter Lindbergh, and Terry Richardson.
In addition to her modeling career, Lydia has also gained recognition as an actress. She won "Supermodel of the Year" at the 2008 Michael Awards and was acknowledged as "Best International Supermodel" at the Madrid Glamour Awards in 2008. In 2015, she won "Best Actress" at the International Film Festival Manhattan for her role in Stealing Chanel and received the "Rising Star Tribute" at the Napa Valley Film Festival.
At present, Lydia is focusing on her acting career and has become a rising star in Hollywood. With her 5'7" stature and doll-like face, she has been the perfect match for on-screen roles and print-work alike. Since stepping into the limelight, she has set runways, editorials, magazine covers, advertisements, and film sets ablaze with her sophisticated, doll-like style and dedicated no-nonsense attitude.
Lydia has appeared in a number of films and television shows, including Gossip Girl, Two Jacks, Mistresses, Cabin Fever: Patient Zero, Desire, #Horror, Two For One, Automobile Waltz, Condemned, Guys Reading Poems, Downside of Bliss, Stealing Chanel, South of Hell, Swing State, and Z Nation. She has also appeared in the romantic comedy, Between Worlds, co-starring with Hilary Duff in the psychological thriller The Haunting of Sharon Tate, and in supporting roles in Grace & Grit and Root Letter.
In her personal life, Lydia married Chris Hardwick in Pasadena, California on August 20, 2016.
