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Olivia Ward is an American actress whose screen work spans British television and Hollywood film and television productions from 1980 to 1991.12 She is best known to Ghostbusters fans for her appearance in Ghostbusters II (1989), in which she played the Meter Maid seen in the film's opening sequence.3
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Ward's earliest known credit is a supporting role as a House Mother in the British television film Life for Christine (1980), a drama set in the Railton Road area of Brixton, London.1 She followed that with a small part as a Female Customer in L'Elegance (1982).1
In 1985 she appeared in three productions. She played Nurse #1 in Out of the Darkness, a made-for-television film dramatising the crimes of serial killer Edmund Kemper.1 That same year she took the role of Mrs. Wesley in Tenement (also released as Game of Survival), a low-budget urban horror film directed by Roberta Findlay.1 She also appeared as a Protesting Lady in Death Wish 3, the Charles Bronson action film directed by Michael Winner.1
Her most visible credit came in 1989 when she was cast as the Meter Maid in Ghostbusters II (see below).3 Her last known screen credit is a guest appearance as Mrs. Fields on The Cosby Show in 1991.1
No further public biographical record, including birth date, place of origin, or current status, is available in published sources as of 2026.
Ward appears at the very start of Ghostbusters II, during the sequence in which Dana Barrett walks along First Avenue to her apartment with Oscar in his stroller.4 A man argues with Ward's Meter Maid over a parking ticket near Dana's building, refusing to pay it and throwing it to the ground. The Meter Maid laughs at him. The character has no further role in the film but is clearly credited in the end titles under Ward's name.3
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IMDb, "Olivia Ward," accessed 2026-06-13, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0911765/ ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7
The Movie Database, "Olivia Ward," accessed 2026-06-13, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1454478-olivia-ward ↩
IMDb, "Olivia Ward as Meter Maid in Ghostbusters II (1989)," accessed 2026-06-13, https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097428/characters/nm0911765 ↩ ↩2 ↩3
Ghostbusters II (1989), dir. Ivan Reitman. TriStar Pictures. ↩
