Tracy-Louise Ward
- Actress
- Director
- Producer
The niece of the Earl of Dudley, she was expelled from two schools, once for slapping a teacher who told her off for giggling in church. After taking her A-levels she was sent to Paris to study French, but walked out after two months in order to work as a model. She was a rebellious child: at first shut away and brought up by a nanny, and then sent to a boarding school where she was bored. At the age of 17 she studied art in Italy for a year, then went to America where she sold yoghurt cones in New York. Returning to London she earned her Equity card by doing a one-woman show around pubs and clubs in London, peeling down to a camisole and suspender belt while lacing a monologue with four-letter words. She is married to Henry John Fitzroy Somerset, the son of the 11th Duke of Beaufort.
