As a whirlwind awards season gets under way, Bazaar meets the talented women behind the year’s most exciting film and television projects

Rachel Ward, with actor husband Bryan Brown, in 1983 (below) and on her cattle farm recently (inset) Why do we think it’s acceptable to comment on someone’s looks? Seriously, if I had a quid for every

When Jo Smith turned 50, she didn’t want a quiet dinner or a standard party. Instead, the creative marketing director hired a stately home, invited over 100 guests, and threw herself an epic three-day

Judy Blume’s Superfudge was in our tiny school library, and I wolfed it down at the age of eight. From then, I was side-by-side with all of Judy’s kids, right the way up to 17-year-old Katherine in Fo

THE YEAR IS PROVING TO BE A BIG ONE FOR BREAKOUT STARS OF FILM AND TV, FROM WUTHERING HEIGHTS TO HAMNET TO INDUSTRY AND BRIDGERTON . HERE, THEY WEAR THE SPRING/SUMMER RUNWAY SEASON’S STANDOUT HITS

Actor Jill Halfpenny on losing loved ones, leaving London and moving to the seaside, and starting a podcast