After educating as an actor in Munich and New York, Hardy Hoosman has worked as an actor and director in Germany, Austria and Switzerland since 1986. As an actor, he has received several AZ Stars of the Week, e.g. for the one-person play "Dreck" by Robert Schneider. Highlights include the role of Simon in "Jesus Christ Superstar" by the Broadway Musical Company New York and his collaboration with Heiner Lauterbach and Uwe Ochsenknecht in the play "Ein seltsames Paar" in Munich, Berlin and Hamburg.
As a director, he won the Wolfgang-Anraths-Prize for children's and youth theater with the play "Geheime Freunde" by Rudolf Herfurtner based on the novel "Der gelbe Vogel".
In film and television, he has appeared in various roles in "Marienhof", "Sturm der Liebe", "Soko", "Der Alte" and many more, as well as in supporting roles in cinema, e.g. in "Asterix and Obelix" with Gerard Depardieu or as Drag in "Enemy Mine" by Wolfgang Petersen, starring Dennis Quaid.