Summary
RACHEL WARD was born into aristocracy, shot to fame romping with a cassock-clad Richard Chamberlain in The Thorn Birds - and then threw it all away.
In this revealing interview, she tells REBECCA HARDY why Rachel Ward was born the niece of the Earl of Dudley and brought up on a 1,800-acre estate in Oxfordshire. It was a life much like the young Princess Diana's, she says, but Rachel hated being an aristocrat. She didn't much like being a Parisian model or a Hollywood actress, either. And when she turned her hand to motherhood in the Sydney suburbs, she found that that wasn't all it was cracked up to be. Indeed, the only thing she seems to have settled upon is her Australian actor husband, Bryan Brown, ten years her senior - and even he says, 'She can be as mad as a cut snake.' I meet Rachel during the Australian Film Festival where she is making her directorial debut with her film Martha's New Coat. Her husband is listed in the credits as executive producer. He is beside her now. Rachel says she's finally comfortable with her lot, but she's not a comfortable person to be with.See the full content of this document
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The Rose with a Thorn in Her Side
Rachel, 46, has spent much of her adult life in Australia after falling in love with Bryan on the set of the made-for-TV drama The Thorn Birds, in 1983.
She was sultry and sensual, with a head of long, wild hair and a bright future - despite a reputation for highhandedness. Indeed, steamy images of Rachel in a revealing red bathing suit were plastered about Hollywood's Sunset Strip to promote her films. But the new Mrs Brown wasn't comfortable with Ms Ward's exhibitionism. Her husband wasn't too keen, either.He took her off to Australia and a farmhouse north of Sydney...See the full content of this document
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