Gemma Ward starts career as an actress…

Australian model Gemma Ward is going to exchange her career in fashion industry to career as an actress. She will star in The Black Balloon, a film set in her native country. Gemma who was enthusiastic to pursue a career in film for some time now, will skip most of the catwalks in the upcoming season. She is only expected to appear on Paris’s ready-to-wear catwalk shows.
The Black Balloon film is directed by Elisa Down and it tackles an adolescent boy difficulty in coming to terms with having autistic brother. Gemma Ward will play the girlfriend of the movie’s central character. The role of boy’s mother will be played by celebrated Australian actress Toni Collette.
Ward, who was the face of numerous fashion campaigns, including Prada, Yves Saint Laurent and Calvin Klein will also star in upcoming American horror flick, The Strangers, alongside Liv Tyler.
At just sixteen, Ward was the youngest model chosen to be in a Vogue shoot of nine ‘It Girls’ in the modeling world, including fellow supermodels Daria Werbowy, Natalia Vodianova, Karolina Kurkova and Gisele Bundchen. Gemma Ward, who opened many of the major shows last season has been on catwalks for such designers as Alexander McQueen, Chanel, Gucci and many more. Ward has also appeared on the covers of prestigious fashion magazines such as Vogue, W and Time Magazine’s Style and Design issue.

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