- As a young starlet, shared a house with fellow model-actress Daryl Hannah.
- Rachel Ward met her husband, Bryan Brown, while working on The Thorn Birds (1983). She played the heroine, and he played the heroine's husband (who was not however the hero!).
- Longtime companion of Robert F. Kennedy's son David in the late 1970s.
- Voted one of the 10 most beautiful women in the United States (1983).
- Has two daughters, Rosie (born in 1984) and Matilda Brown (born in 1987), and a son, Joe Brown (born in 1992), with husband Bryan Brown.
- 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.
- Former model.
- 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.
- She was awarded the A.M. (Member of the Order of Australia) in the Queen's 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".
- Attended the Byam Shaw School of Art in London.
- Sister of Tracy-Louise Ward (born in 1958)...who married Henry Somerset, Marquess of Worcester, in 1987. Rachel's brother, Alexander Evelyn Giles Ward, was born in 1961.
- Woollahra, New South Wales, Australia (January 2009)
- Her mother, Claire (born 1921) is divorced from her father, Peter Ward.
- Her brother Dudley was married to Maureen Swanson.
- Born on exactly the same date as Hans Zimmer.
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