Rachel Claire Ward Wiki: Salary, Married, Wedding, Spouse, Family
Rachel Claire Ward, AM (born 12 September 1957) is an English actress, columnist, film director, and screenwriter who has primarily pursued her career in Australia.
Full Name
Rachel Claire Ward
Net Worth
$1.6 Million
Date Of Birth
September 12, 1957
Place Of Birth
Cornwell Manor, Cornwell, Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire, England, UK
On Richard Chamberlain: I was very green and Richard was less green and incredibly supportive and darling to me. I'd been in love with Richard actually for years.
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I've been as critically rubbished as acclaimed and the worst thing about that is that it usually plays into your own self-criticism.
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Writers are very much undervalued in the creative process.
I always tell young actors to have a back-up. You don't want to find yourself at the age of 30 still struggling to make a living out of acting.
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When I wanted to be an actress, I never wanted really to be the kind of actress I became.
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All anything takes, really, is confidence.
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Having done something like The Thorn Birds (1983) gives you enormous longevity. You can keep picking and choosing the roles for a bit longer.
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There's very little bohemia in Australia and it's one of the things I miss most about not living in Europe.
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I remember having to take detours around the Hollywood sign to avoid having to see this grotesque poster of myself on Sunset Boulevard.
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[on the intensive training received from Sandra Seacat over the course the 5½-month shoot of The Thorn Birds (1983)] She's extraordinary. She made me work in a totally different way than I'd ever worked before. For the first time, I really worked on technique... It was definitely not an easy five months. It was a lot of tying things together and understanding and confusion and frustration and anger. I asked a lot of questions about acting and about me and stuff, and Sandra just had these answers, and they were just like, of course, oh my God, of course!
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If you're going to be an actress in film, you can't be coy.
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Breasts are sexy. I want to see them and audiences want to see them . . . I've certainly had to do my fair share of it. If you're going to be an actress or a model, it's usually part of the package.
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We don't want to see willies because they're ugly.
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"I wish I had [done more nude scenes when I was younger.] I was just a prudish English girl and I wish I had been less prudish about it really. I don't think we have a hell of a lot to be serious about at this point.
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You're in a movie because you're appealing and because you represent the aspiration, the fantasy, the ideal. I resisted that but, when you're in the business, when you're making a film, one doesn't have to take it all too seriously. We're not curing cancer . . . it's entertainment. We want to get people into theatres.
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Woollahra, New South Wales, Australia [January 2009]
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Longtime companion of Robert F. Kennedy's son David in the late 1970s.
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Attended the Byam Shaw School of Art in London.
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Voted one of the ten most beautiful women in the United States (1983).
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She was awarded the A.M. (Member of the Order of Australia) in the Queen's Birthday Honours List in June 2005 for "raising awareness of social justice through lobbying, mentoring and advocacy for the rights of disadvantaged and at-risk young people".
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Has two daughters, Rosie (born in 1984) and Matilda Brown (born in 1987), and a son, Joe Brown (born in 1992), with husband Bryan Brown.
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Rachel Ward met her husband, Bryan Brown, while working on The Thorn Birds (1983). She played the heroine, and he played the heroine's husband (who was not however the hero!).
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She is granddaughter of the 3rd Earl of Dudley and his first wife Lady Rosemary Leveson-Gower (once tipped as a possible bride for the future Edward VIII, later Duke of Windsor). Her uncle the Earl of Dudley is married to former actress Maureen Swanson; her sister Tracy-Louise Ward (now wife of the Marquess of Worcester, eldest son and heir of the 11th Duke of Beaufort) also acted, and her cousin the Honourable Leander Ward is also an actor.
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Born to Peter Alistair Ward, son of the 3rd Earl of Dudley, and his wife Claire Leonora Baring (born on 29 February 1936), daughter of first-class cricketer Giles Baring; her parents later divorced.
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As a young starlet shared a house with fellow model-actress Daryl Hannah.
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Has a sister, Tracy-Louise Ward (born in 1958), who married Henry Somerset, Marquess of Worcester in 1987, and a brother, Alexander Evelyn Giles Ward (born in 1961).
