Ward has long aspired to pursue acting and drama is a passion that she has held since she was a child. She starred alongside Toni Collette and Rhys Wakefield in Australian director Elissa Down's film "The Black Balloon" as the girlfriend of a boy whose brother has autism. "The Black Balloon" had its world premiere at the 58th Berlin International Film Festival in Germany in February 2008, where it received a Crystal Bear as the best feature-length film in the "Generation 14plus" category. She was also cast opposite Liv Tyler in the suspense thriller "The Strangers" as one of the three masked intruders, "Dollface". In the summer of 2009, she took classes at the Stella Adler Studio of Acting in New York.