After starring in the 1980s television adaptation of Colleen McCullough’s The Thorn Birds, English-born actress Rachel Ward married her co-star Bryan Brown and moved to Australia, where they raised their three children. Over the years, Ward has moved away from acting in favour of directing, writing and activism. Most recently, she has turned her hand to agriculture, transforming her rural New South Wales property into a regenerative farm, a transition she documents in the feature-length film Rachel’s Farm, playing at the upcoming Doc Edge Festival.
Your lineage goes back to Henry VIII. What was childhood like for a posh kid in the Cotswolds?
I was sent to boarding school when I was
