Rachel Ward

Former model.

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).

As a young starlet shared a house with fellow model-actress Daryl Hannah.

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.

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.

Rachel Ward met her husband, Bryan Brown , while working on "The Thorn Birds" . She played the heroine, and he played the heroines husband (who was not however the hero!).

Has two daughters, Rosie (born in 1984) and Matilda Brown , and a son, Joe Brown , with husband Bryan Brown.

She was awarded the A.M. (Member of the Order of Australia) in the Queens 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".

Voted one of the ten most beautiful women in the United States.

Attended the Byam Shaw School of Art in London.

Longtime companion of Robert F. Kennedy s son David in the late 1970s.

(January 2009) Woollahra, New South Wales, Australia

Breasts are sexy. I want to see them and audiences want to see them . .

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!,I remember having to take detours around the Hollywood sign to avoid,having to see this grotesque poster of myself on Sunset Boulevard.

Having done something like "The Thorn Birds" (1983) gives you,enormous longevity. You can keep picking and choosing the roles for a,bit longer.

All anything takes, really, is confidence.

When I wanted to be an actress, I never wanted really to be the kind of,actress I became.

Writers are very much undervalued in the creative process.

You get use to someone—start to like them, even—and they leave. In the end, everyone leaves.

And just when I though things were starting to get better, everything had gone wrong again.

I was tired of being me.

He loved me and I loved him, but the number in my head was telling me that he was going to die today. And the numbers had never been wrong.

And then, a strangely comforting thought trickled through me—I had nothing, so I could do anything now. Anything I wanted. I had nothing left to lose.

Part of me wanted this more than anything else in the world—to have someone to hang out with, be like everyone else for a while. The rest of me screamed to get the hell out of there, not to get sucked in.