Lydia Hearst

American model and actress

Lydia Marie Hearst Shaw (born September 19, 1984) is an American fashion model, actress, socialite, and lifestyle blogger. She is a great granddaughter of newspaper publisher and politician William Randolph Hearst and a daughter of the author and actress Patty Hearst.

Hearst Shaw was born in 1984, the daughter of actress Patty Hearst and Bernard L. Shaw, a former San Francisco police officer. She attended Sacred Heart University in Fairfield, Connecticut until 2003, when she began fashion modeling.

Photographer Steven Meisel "discovered" Hearst and shot her first magazine cover for Vogue Italia in April 2004. Since then, she has appeared internationally on a variety of magazine covers such as Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, Elle, Marie Claire, GQ, L'Officiel, and Esquire. She has worked with several well known photographers such as Meisel, Patrick Demarchelier, Ellen Von Unwerth, Mario Testino, Peter Lindbergh, Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin. Hearst has modeled for fashion designers such as Chanel, Fendi, Catherine Malandrino, Nicole Miller, and Jeremy Scott.

Hearst has appeared in advertising campaigns for Prada, Louis Vuitton, Alexander McQueen, Bottega Veneta, Sephora, L'Oreal Ferria, DKNY, MYLA Lingerie, H&M, NARS Cosmetics, MAC Cosmetics, Miss Me Jeans, Moschino Cheap & Chic. In 2007, she appeared in Puma's French 77, after which Puma engaged her to design a line of handbags for their
collection. In Spring of 2012, Swarovski chose Hearst to be its ambassador for its Heart Truth campaign, sponsored by the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, intended to raise women's awareness about heart health.

Hearst was briefly a columnist for Page Six, a feature of the Sunday edition of the New York Post. She also ran a lifestyle and fashion blog.

Hearst made an appearance in the music video for the Miles Fisher cover of "This Must Be the Place". Hearst again starred in a music video in 2011 for Cisco Adler's "Song for All the Girls", where she is graphically murdered by a spin saw. She also has a minor role in Johnny Polygon's "LimoSexSuperstar" video.

Hearst served alongside Anne Vyalitsyna and Naomi Campbell as a supermodel coach for the second edition of Oxygen's The Face modeling reality competition. The season premiered on March 5, 2014.

Hearst married Chris Hardwick on August 20, 2016, in Pasadena, California. Their daughter was born in January 2022.

Her family's tradition of philanthropy inspired Hearst to become a Smile Ambassador for Operation Smile.

Year Title Role Notes Ref. (Reference) 2020 The Shadow Diaries Christine / Lina Voice role

Year Title Artist(s) Ref. (Reference) 2009 "This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody)" Miles Fisher 2011 "Song for All the Girls" Cisco Adler featuring Young Chris 2013 "LimoSexSuperstar" Johnny Polygon 2019 "Ass Level" Santina Muha