Career
In 2007, she joined the cast of the American daytime drama General Hospital as Kate Howard. When Ward was four years old, the family moved to Honolulu, Hawaii. At the age of nine, she began doing commercials for local department stores.
In her early teens, she went to Japan for modeling jobs and stayed for several years.
Having previously learned to speak the language from her schooling in Hawaii, she landed a job hosting a Japanese television show, "Science Q," a science television program broadcast in Nippon Hōsō Kyōkai from 1988 to February 1989. After graduating from Kaiser High School, Ward moved to Los Angeles to pursue an acting career, and secured roles in science-fiction and comedy movies (including leading roles in the Charles Band-classics Crash and Burn, Trancers II and Trancers III (as Jack Deth"s future-wife), Arcade, and the 1994 Tom Stern/Alex Winter horror/comedy Freaked).
In the mid-1990s, Ward had a recurring role on the show Party of Five. Following the exit of her Party of Five character, Ward took the lead role in the Cold War unidentified flying object thriller-series Dark Skies.
Since the cancellation of Dark Skies, she was appearing in mainly direct-to-video films such as Tick Tock and Mirror Manitoba as well as television series such as Summerland, Sports Night, Kevin Hill, and Boomtown, in which she had a substantial part.
She later debuted as Kate Howard on General Hospital on May 4, 2007. Ward was taken off contract in March 2009 and remained on the series as a recurring character. In 2010 Ward was dropped completely from the cast of General Hospital.
Most recently, Ward portrayed Michelle in the horror-thriller film The Invited under the direction of Ryan McKinney.