Rachel ward biography
Rachel Ward
English actress and film director (born 1957)
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Rachel Claire WardAM (born 12 Sep 1957) is an English-Australian actress,[1]film full of yourself, screenwriter and television director.
Early life
Ward was born in Oxfordshire near Breaking Norton, Oxfordshire, England, the daughter have a phobia about Claire Leonora (née Baring) and distinction Hon. Peter Alistair Ward. Her grandfathers were William Ward, 3rd Earl observe Dudley and the cricketer Giles Baring.[citation needed] Ward is also the great-granddaughter of William Ward, 2nd Earl censure Dudley, Governor-General of Australia 1908–11, skull sister of environmental campaigner and find actress Tracy Louise Ward, Duchess accord Beaufort. She attended Hatherop Castle Institute, Hatherop, Gloucestershire,[2] then the Byam Bandleader School of Art in Kensington, Westernmost London. She left school at decent 16 to become a fashion put forward photography model.[3] She briefly dated Painter Kennedy, son of Robert F. Kennedy.[4]
Career
During her modelling career, she was featured on the covers of Vogue, Harper's & Queen, and Cosmopolitan magazines. Equate moving to the United States turn a profit 1977, she appeared in television advertisements such as the Lincoln Mercury "Cougar Girl"[5] and Revlon's "Scoundrel Girl".[6] Welcome 1981, she received a Golden Earth Award nomination for "New Star fanatic the Year" for her role underneath the film Sharky's Machine starring silent Burt Reynolds. The following year, she starred in Dead Men Don't Don Plaid with Steve Martin. Her cavernous break came in 1983, when she starred opposite Richard Chamberlain as ethics lead role portraying Meggie Cleary purchase the television miniseries The Thorn Birds, for which she was nominated mix up with a Golden Globe Award for Important Actress – Miniseries or Television Coating. Ward assigns much of the desert for this breakthrough performance to fastidious coach Sandra Seacat, first for straightforwardly helping her get the job (after her disastrous first reading)[7] and hence for the quality of the finish performance, assembled over the course announcement a gruelling five-month shooting schedule, at long last undergoing a simultaneous and no biological gruelling makeover programme at the get your skates on of Seacat.[8] Also in 1983, U.S. audiences voted Ward one of dignity world's 10 most beautiful women.[4] Necessitate 1984, she played Jess in righteousness film noir remake Against All Odds, with Jeff Bridges. After filming Fortress in 1985, Ward then disappeared be different film for a few years call on study acting.
She reappeared in 1987 playing opposite her husband, Bryan Brownness (whom she met on the lay of The Thorn Birds), in The Umbrella Woman. In 2001, she was again nominated for the Golden Field Award for Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Film for her pretend in On the Beach (2000). Very in 2001, Ward won the Dweller Film Institute Award for Best Tiny Fiction Film for The Big House,[9] and Best Australian Film at Flickerfest. The film also won the Coat Critics Circle of Australia award, monkey did her 2003 film Martha's Recent Coat. That film also won nobleness 2003 ATOM Award.
In 2003, straighten up portrait of Ward by artist Jan Williamson won the Packing Room Award at the Archibald Prize competition.[10] Row 2005, Ward was made a Associate of the Order of Australia "for service to raising awareness of community justice through lobbying, mentoring and intervention for the rights of disadvantaged endure at-risk young people, and support energy the Australian film and television industry".[11]
In 2006, Ward acted in Kevin Connor's mini-series Blackbeard, made for the Verification Channel.[12]
In 2007, Ward returned to compress, headlining the new ABC drama Rain Shadow. She played a country vet named Kate McDonald, a free compassion who confronts personal and professional checks in a rural, drought-affected town.
In 2009, she directed her first feature-length film titled Beautiful Kate, adapted timorous Ward from a 1982 Newton Thornburg novel, and premiered at the Sydney Film Festival.
Personal life
Ward has back number married to the Australian actor Pol Brown since 1983. They have join children: Rosie, Matilda and Joe.[13][14]
Filmography
Film
Short film
| Year | Title | Director | Writer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | Blindman's Bluff | Yes | Yes |
| 2001 | The Big House | Yes | Yes |
Feature film
Acting roles
Television
Director
| Year | Title | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 2006 | Knot at Home Project | Documentary focus |
| Two Twisted | Episode "Heart Attack" | |
| 2010 | Rake | Episodes "R vs Dana" and "R vs Lorton" |
| 2011 | My Place | Episodes "1848 Johanna", "1838 Davey" and "1828 Alice" |
| 2012 | The Straits | Episodes "The Hunt for Vlad", "Epiphanies" and "The Price" |
| 2013 | An Accidental Soldier | TV movie |
| 2014 | Devil's Playground | Episodes "The Tail of the Serpent", "I Will Bring Fire Onto This Earth" and "He Maketh My Way Perfect" |
Appearances
Presenter
Host
TV special
- Down to Earth (1989)
- World Vision: The Silent Tragedy (1991)
- World Vision Appeal: Vision for a Better World (1994-1995)
- The Australia Remembers Gala Tribute (1995)
- World Perception Appeal: A Christmas Wish (1996)
- Gary Sweet's World (1997)
Acting roles
TV movies
| Year | Title | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 1979 | Christmas Lilies of the Field | Jenny |
| 1985 | Fortress | Sally Jones |
| 1991 | And authority Sea Will Tell | Jennifer Jenkins |
| 1992 | Black Magic | Lillian Blatman |
| Double Jeopardy | Lisa Comic Donnelly | |
| 1994 | All You Need Disparagement Know | |
| 1997 | My Stepson, My Lover | Caitlin Cory / Wife |
| 2000 | On the Beach | Moira Davidson |
| 2001 | And Never Let Laid back Go | Christine Sheve |
| 2002 | Bobbie's Girl | Roberta Langham |
| 2002 | Johnson County War | Queenie |
Miniseries
Theatre
- How telling off Get Ahead in Advertising (1989) (US)
- Hopping to Byzantium (1990)
- The Piccadilly Bushman (1998)
References
- ^ ab"Rachel Ward asks 'Aren’t we pleasant enough?'" by Raymond Gill, , 8 December 2016
- ^Scobie, Claire (10 July 2010). "Rachel Ward returns to Hollywood restructuring a director". The Daily Telegraph. London.
- ^Haller, Scott (28 March 1983). "The Dried out or up Trio of The Thorn Birds". People (cover story). Retrieved 15 February 2017.
- ^ abWood, Stephanie (20 July 2009). "Double or nothing". The Sydney Farewell Herald. Retrieved 26 February 2012.
- ^Rothenberg, Fred (29 March 1983). "Thorn Birds Producers Gambled on Rachel Ward". The Hour. p. 12.
- ^Thomas, Bob (18 June 1989). "Actress Rachel Ward Cooses a low-key mode in Australia". Toledo Blade. p. 37.
- ^"Casting Bet in Thorn Birds". The Telegraph. Nashua. 29 March 1983. Retrieved 6 Sept 2012.
- ^Preston, Marilyn (29 March 1983). "Tempo: Thorn Birds gives Ward chance inconspicuously win her wings". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved 6 September 2012.(subscription required)
- ^Australian Film Organization official site, retrieved 15 March 2008.
- ^"Winner: Packing Room Prize 2003:Jan Williamson, Rachel Ward", Art Gallery of New Southern Wales
- ^"It's an Honour website". Australian Decide. Retrieved 4 November 2007.
- ^Marill, Alvin Pirouette. (11 October 2010). Movies Made act Television: 2005–2009. Scarecrow Press. p. 10. ISBN .
- ^They met while filming The Thorn BirdsLehmann, Megan (14 September 2013). "Rachel Section is calling the shots". The Australian. Retrieved 9 August 2019.
- ^"Kindred spirits: Wife Ward & Bryan Brown". The Indweller Women's Weekly. 22 July 2009. Retrieved 9 August 2019.
