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Rachel WardRachel Claire Ward (born at Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire, September 12, 1957), granddaughter of the Third Earl of Dudley, is an English actress (and more recently, a director) who has made most of her career in Australia.

She attended the Byam Shaw School of Art in London before leaving at 16 to become a top fashion model. In 1983 she was voted one of the ten most beautiful women in the United States.

She became well known when she starred opposite Richard Chamberlain in the television mini-series The Thorn Birds. She disappeared from pictures for three years and studied acting. Ward then reappeared in 1987, playing opposite her husband, Bryan Brown (whom she met on the set of The Thorn Birds), in The Good Wife. Married since 1983, they have three children: Rosie, Matilda (who has followed her parents into the acting profession), and Joe.

She briefly dated David Kennedy. In 2003, a portrait of Rachel Ward by artist Jan Williamson won the Packing Room award at the Archibald Prize.

  "Blackbeard" (2006) (mini) TV Series (post-production) .... Sally Dunbar

"What's Going On?"
- Indigenous Children in Australia (????) TV Episode
Johnson County War (2002) (TV) .... Queenie
Bobbie's Girl (2002) (TV) .... Roberta Langham
And Never Let Her Go (2001) (TV) .... Christine Sheve
On the Beach (2000) (TV) .... Moira Davidson

Seasons of Love (1999) (TV) .... Kate Linthorne
My Stepson, My Lover (1997) (TV) .... Caitlin Cory
... aka Love, Murder and Deceit
... aka No Recourse
"Twisted Tales"
... aka Twisted (UK)
- Third Party (1996) TV Episode .... Sara
The Ascent (1994) .... Patricia
Double Obsession (1994) .... Grandmother
Wide Sargasso Sea (1993) .... Annette Cosway
Double Jeopardy (1992) (TV) .... Lisa Burns Donnelly
Christopher Columbus: The Discovery (1992) .... Queen Isabella
... aka Cristóbal Colón: el descubrimiento (Spain)
Black Magic (1992) (TV) .... Lillian Blatman
And the Sea Will Tell (1991) (TV) .... Jennifer Jenkins
After Dark, My Sweet (1990) .... Fay Anderson

Shadow of the Cobra (1989) (TV) .... Chris Royston
How to Get Ahead in Advertising (1989) .... Julia Bagley
The Good Wife (1987) .... Marge Hills
... aka Peter Kenna's The Good Wife
... aka The Umbrella Woman
... aka Who's Zoomin Who (USA)
Hotel Colonial (1987) .... Irene Costa
Fortress (1986) (TV) .... Sally Jones
Against All Odds (1984) .... Jessie Wyler
The Final Terror (1983) .... Margaret
... aka Bump in the Night
... aka Campsite Massacre
... aka Carnivore (USA: TV title)
... aka The Forest Primeval
"The Thorn Birds" (1983) (mini) TV Series .... Meggie Cleary
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (1982) .... Juliet Forrest
... aka Dead Men Wear No Plaid
Sharky's Machine (1981) .... Dominoe
Night School (1981) .... Eleanor Adjai
... aka Terror Eyes
"Dynasty"
- The Dinner Party (1981) TV Episode .... Edna MacReady

Christmas Lilies of the Field (1979) (TV) .... Jenny