Rachel Ward
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| Stunningly beautiful brunette with seductively husky voice, initially seen in standard parts but latterly in some interesting, offbeat roles. A former model, she appeared in two schlocky horror films, Night School and The Final Terror before attracting attention as the highclass hooker in Sharky's Machine (all 1981). She played an admirably deadpan femme fatale in Steve Martin's private-eye spoof Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (1982), then tackled a similar part in earnest for Against All Odds (1984), a reworking of the classic noir thriller Out of the Past. Ward was off the big screen for several years, but impressed the few moviegoers who saw her in The Good Wife (1986), playing the insulated, bored spouse of Bryan Brown (her real-life hubby, with whom she also costarred in the popular 1983 miniseries, "The Thorn Birds"). That same year she provided a little light and heat in the otherwise tepid Hotel Colonial Ward showed surprising aptitude for black comedy as the patient wife of wacky Richard E. Grant in How to Get Ahead in Advertising (1989), and appeared at her sultriest as the treacherous temptress in After Dark, My Sweet (1990), an updated noir from the pen of Jim Thompson. Recent credits include Terror Eyes (1991), Christopher Columbus-The Discovery (1992, as Queen Isabella), Wide Sargasso Sea (1993), and a number of TV movies, including Double Jeopardy and Black Magic (both 1992). |