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The Aussie model has been putting some time into her acting career with a role in the low-budget drama Black Balloon. Critical acclaim for the film which gained 10 nominations for the Inside Film Awards has given Gemma Ward a boost in the acting stakes. She secured a nomination for best actress along side Rhys Wakefield.

However fan’s of her modelling career will be pleased to see her gracing the cover of Marie Claire this month. The magazine which incorporates both fashion and modelling is also well suited to increasing her exposure as an emerging actress.

The Black Balloon’s fortunes continue to rise after winning the a Berlin Film festival award earlier in the year, the low-budget drama has been nominated for 10 Inside Film (IF) Awards, including best actor nods for Gemma as well as her co-star Rhys Wakefield.

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This week she denied rumours that she had ditched the catwalk for the silver screen, but adding acting to her CV paid off big-time last night for the top-earning Perth model Gemma Ward, 20, who won a cinema industry award that has previously gone to Geoffrey Rush, Eric Bana, Heath Ledger and Russell Crowe. Ward was named Australian Star of the Year for her first film, The Black Balloon, about a family with an autistic son.

The warm-hearted drama also starred Toni Collette, Erik Thomson, Luke Ford and Rhys Wakefield, but it was Ward’s performance that the film industry decided was the stand-out from all the roles in all the Australian films released in the past year.

One of the film’s producers, Tristrim Miall, accepted the award for Ward (who is in the US for her day job) during a Venetian masquerade at the Australian International Movie Convention on the Gold Coast.

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