Peter Hardy, who graced the screen as an actor in Australian drama series “McLeod’s Daughters” and film “Chopper”, has died aged 66 after drowning in a snorkeling accident off the Australian coast.
Hardy’s brother, Michael Hardy, shared News in a Facebook post on Thursday, “I am heartbroken to say that my brother, Peter Hardy, passed away suddenly this morning… May my dear little brother rest in peace.”
According to local reports, Hardy died after snorkeling at a beach in Fremantle, Western Australia, after traveling to see his mother in the town near Perth. west australian informed of That, prior to the incident, Hardy had posted on social media and tagged himself at Cottesloe Beach and South Beach in Fremantle just an hour before being pulled out of the water.
In addition to his roles in “McLeod’s Daughters” and “Chopper”, Hardy also appeared in several episodes of the series “Neighbours”, in which he played Jimmy Drain. Off the small screen, Hardy starred in “Mamma Mia! The Musical.”
Starring as Phil Rakich in “McLeod’s Daughters”, Hardy appeared in 44 episodes of the Australian drama series, which ran for eight seasons.
After her death, Andy Burns, a close friend of Hardy’s, who said the pair lived together in Neutral Bay Sydney in the mid-1980s, expressed his heartbreak at the news, noting that he had been devastated by Hardy’s death. are “inconsolable”, adding that “words cannot express how deeply I feel this loss.”
“He was 66 and looked like a Greek god, so fit, and so happy to be back from London to his native WA where he made his home,” Burns wrote in a tribute post on Facebook. The “Chopper” actor decided to buy a canal boat in London and sent him guitar tracks recorded from the boat. “He was a brilliant actor, an amazing singer and guitarist, he also played drums and sax. He always loved performing in theater as well as in film and TV.
