Gemma Ward Fashion Model pictorial

Ward was born in Perth, Western Australia, as the second child of Gary and Claire Ward. Her older sister, Sophie, is also a model and she has younger twin brothers, Oscar and Henry Ward. She was educated at the Presbyterian Ladies' College, Perth and Shenton College.

As said herself in a Teen Vogue interview, she accompanied her friends to a modeling competition and ended up being scouted herself. "I had come straight from my auntie and uncle's farm, and I was wearing this big gray barn jacket with mud all over it. When the scout came up to me, I said, "No, thank you." But my friends were like, "Hell, yes!' They forged my mum's signature (for mandatory parental consent), and pushed me in front of the cameras." Ward didn't win the competition, but Vivien's Model Agency picked her up, and then after seeing a small picture of her in an Australian magazine New York's IMG.

Ward has long aspired to pursue acting and drama is a passion that she has held since she was a child. She has been cast in Australian director Elissa Down's upcoming film 'The Black Balloon' also starring Toni Collette and Rhys Wakefield, as the girlfriend of a boy whose brother has autism. She was recently cast opposite Liv Tyler in the suspense thriller The Strangers as one of the three masked intruders. She also appeared in "Daughters" by John Mayer.

She currently stands at number one on the "Top 50 Models" rating at models.com.