Biography
Former model, and daughter of the Earl of Dudley, actress Rachel
Ward has appeared in several mainstream films and on television primarily
during the 1980s.
She attended Byram Art School in London before leaving
at 16 to become a top fashion model who made many television commercials.
In 1983 Ward, with her thick dark hair, husky voice, and large eyes,
was voted one of the ten most beautiful women in the U.S.
Although she
had appeared in two slasher movies, she made her official feature film
debut in Sharky's Machine in 1981.
More films followed, but she didn't
become really well-known until she starred opposite Richard Chamberlain
in the popular television mini-series "The Thorn Birds."
Rachel has gone on to work and she stared in the next movie Against All
Odds (1984) opposite Jeff Bridges.
After that she disappeared from pictures
for some time as she played wife to husband Bryan Brown. Their first
child Rose was born in 1984.
More films followed, but she hasn't appeared
in the "big" movies since the great success of The Thorn Birds.
She preferred family to her career.
She then reappeared
in 1987, playing opposite her husband in The Good Wife. Though she has
continued to work sporadically in films, she has yet to achieve true
stardom.
Rachel has also made her mark as a director of short films.
Her first "Overdose" became
a finalist at Sydney's Tropfest film festival in Sydney and her second, "Blindman's
Bluff" , made its Australian premiere at St Kilda Festival in Melbourne
1999.
The third short film named "The Big House" has won an AFI award
for best short film in Fiction Drama category at St Kilda Film Festival in
2000.
Recently Rachel has just finished a 50-minute feature "Martha's New Coat" again
as a director and as an actress she's appeared in a TV movie Bobbie's Girl with
Bernadette Peters performing a lesbian couple.
Rachel has delivered several outstanding performances on the screen
and has many fans all over the world, we hope that Rachel can make still a
lot of movies both as an actress and a director, with success all over the
world.
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