Jennifer Hardy CK

Jennifer Hardy CK is an actress with a background in film production, animation, illustration, and painting. At the age of fourteen, she suffered a stroke damaging the logical left hemisphere of her brain and causing permanent half-blindness, forcing her to compensate by developing the creative right. For over a decade after her stroke, she relearned basic motor, communication, and memory skills while compensating for her lost peripheral vision. In spite of her adversity, she pursued a degree in drawing and painting at the Ontario College of Art and Design University (OCADU). It was during her studies there that she became fascinated with film production through her study of integrated media. Her degree culminated in an award-winning animated short film, "WSIM: What Suffered Inside Me", which was based on her struggles with cognitive disability and was submitted to over 20 film festivals worldwide. Following graduation, Jennifer teamed up with award-winning film director Philip Sportel and contributed to works such as Colin Monroe's "Will I Stay" and Johnny Polygon's "The Riot Song". She officially began her career as an actress after producing her second animated short film, "Obsessions, Progressions, & Expectations", which has since been a nominee for the Female Eye Film Festival (2016) and well received at both the Toronto International Short Film Festival and Headline International Film Festival. Training with esteemed acting coaches Michael Caruana and Tom Todoroff, she has appeared in several film productions, including a mini performance with Margaret Atwood in "Alias Grace". In 2015, she had her first principal role in Lev Lewis's feature "The Intestine" that was played in Vancouver International Film Festival, and in 2016 she starred in C&Y Cinema's "Spice It Up".