GEMMA WARD:
Gemma Ward was born on 3 November 1987 in Perth, Western Australia, She has an older sister, Sophie (who also became a model). She was educated at the Presbyterian Ladies' College and Shenton College.Gemma was the family clown whose ambition was acting.Her passion for acting was born in 1997, when she was cast as the witch in a school play of Hansel and Gretel when she was ten.Ward's brush with modeling was an accidental one.She was discovered in 2002, at the age of fourteen, while accompanying her friends to the Australian modelling competition Search for a Supermodel. As she said herself in a Teen Vogue interview, she 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.' 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 her fragile, unique look, got the attention of a spotter from Vivien's Model Agency who saw her potential and made a show reel. The show reel then landed on the desk of ace model scout David Cunningham from the New York agency IMG. "Look how confident she is. I mean, she looks like she's been doing this for years, and she's a 15-year-old kid walking in an alleyway in Perth She's a supermodel, for sure," Cunningham said.
Gemma Ward was born on 3 November 1987 in Perth, Western Australia, She has an older sister, Sophie (who also became a model). She was educated at the Presbyterian Ladies' College and Shenton College.Gemma was the family clown whose ambition was acting.Her passion for acting was born in 1997, when she was cast as the witch in a school play of Hansel and Gretel when she was ten.Ward's brush with modeling was an accidental one.She was discovered in 2002, at the age of fourteen, while accompanying her friends to the Australian modelling competition Search for a Supermodel. As she said herself in a Teen Vogue interview, she 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.' 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 her fragile, unique look, got the attention of a spotter from Vivien's Model Agency who saw her potential and made a show reel. The show reel then landed on the desk of ace model scout David Cunningham from the New York agency IMG. "Look how confident she is. I mean, she looks like she's been doing this for years, and she's a 15-year-old kid walking in an alleyway in Perth She's a supermodel, for sure," Cunningham said.
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