Marco Taradash was born in Livorno on 19 May 1950 from a Tuscan mother and a New Yorker father, who came to Italy with the allied army.

The surname has a Ukrainian Jewish origin, but while the grandmother, Zweig, kept the Jewish faith, the paternal grandfather, who fled as a child with the family to the United States, later converted to Catholicism, and the father to Protestantism.

In the 70s he also began his journalistic career and thanks to "Stampa e Regime", the press review of Radio Radicale, he also obtained one of the most famous Italian journalistic prizes, the Premiolino.

In 2005 he founded, along with Peppino Calderisi and Benedetto Della Vedova, the Liberal Reformers movement.

In 2010, he was elected to the Regional Council of Tuscany for The People of Freedom but in 2013 left it to join the New Centre-Right, a party led by Angelino Alfano.