It's okay to talk about it. Death is so normal, I don't know why everyone gets so hung up about it. We all have to deal with it. Most people that you talk to have lost someone, but nobody talks about it.

In 2003 a portrait of Ward by artist Jan Williamson won the Packing Room Prize at the Archibald Prize competition. Career
In 1981 Rachel Ward received a Golden Globe Award nomination for "New Star of the Year" for her role in the film Sharky's Machine starring with Burt Reynolds. audiences voted Ward one of the world's 10 most beautiful women.

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.