Tracy Suzanne Hardwick began her performing career at tender age of three appearing as a Bag of Gold in Jack and the Beanstalk. From the role of an inanimate object there followed many summer seasons and pantomimes performing in professional shows in East Anglia in the UK. At 13, she went to study drama, dance, and musical theatre full time at a stage school in London called Italia Conti Academy of Dramatic Art. She was made 'head girl.' At 16 she went onto further studies at Arts Educational Schools in the Barbican Centre, and Old Street. She graduated with a musical theatre diploma.