Early Life
Hardwicke was born in Cameron, Texas, the daughter of Jamee Elberta (née Bennett) and John Benjamin Hardwicke. She has a brother named Jack, and a sister named Irene Hardwicke Olivieri, who is an artist. She grew up in McAllen, Texas, on the U.S.–Mexico border, where her family lived on a giant farm off the Rio Grande. "It was a wild life," she would recount. She graduated from McAllen High School, Texas, and was raised in the Presbyterian denomination.
She graduated from Texas University with an architecture degree, and after her father bought a 20-acre real-estate complex, she designed the property’s 120 townhouses. Hardwicke soon realized this was not the career for her and started going to UCLA graduate film school to explore her creative talents. While at UCLA film school during the 1980s, Hardwicke made an award-winning short, Puppy Does the Gumbo. Her knowledge in architecture led her to a job as a production designer where she worked with many talented directors like Cameron Crowe, Richard Linklater, and David O. Russell. She was influenced by many of the directors she worked with and gained experience studying their technics. She picked up useful knowledge listening to their professional conversations and even talking to them about her desire to be a filmmaker, some of them giving her advice and tips.
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