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Sela Ward

Sela Ward

Actor · Born 1956-07-11 · Meridian, Mississippi, USA

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Biography

Sela Ward (born July 11, 1956) is an American movie and television actress, producer, author, and former model. She moved to California to pursue acting and landed her first film role in the 1983 Burt Reynolds vehicle The Man Who Loved Women. Her first regular role in a TV drama series, as a socialite on Dennis Weaver's short-lived CBS series, Emerald Point N.A.S., followed in the same year. Ward continued to land guest roles in both TV and movies throughout the 1980s, most notably opposite Tom Hanks in Nothing in Common (1986). In 1991, she was cast as Teddy Reed on Sisters, for which she received her first Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series in 1994. She portrayed Helen Kimble, the wife of Dr. Richard Kimble (Harrison Ford), in The Fugitive, one of the top films of 1993. Ward won a CableACE Award for her portrayal of the late TV journalist Jessica Savitch in the 1995 TV movie Almost Golden: The Jessica Savitch Story, which remains Lifetime's most watched TV movie to date. In 1995, she was passed over for a Bond girl role, learning that even though then-Bond Pierce Brosnan was 42, the casting director said "What we really want is Sela, but Sela ten years ago". I…

Movies & TV Shows

  1. Gone Girl (2014) — Sharon Schieber
  2. The Day After Tomorrow (2004) — Dr. Lucy Hall
  3. House (2004) — Stacy Warner
  4. Independence Day: Resurgence (2016) — President Lanford
  5. Westworld (2016) — Juliet
  6. The Fugitive (1993) — Helen Kimble
  7. The Rookie (2018) — Joy Bradford
  8. Runaway Bride (1999) — Pretty Bar Woman
  9. The Guardian (2006) — Helen Randall
  10. The Stepfather (2009) — Susan Harding
  11. FBI (2018) — Dana Mosier
  12. Frasier (1993) — Kelly Easterbrook
  13. CSI: NY (2004) — Jo Danville
  14. Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights (2004) — Jeannie Miller
  15. 54 (1998) — Billie Auster
  16. Saturday Night Live (1975) — Woman in Fur Coat (uncredited)
  17. The New Batman Adventures (1997) — Calendar Girl / Page Monroe (voice)
  18. My Fellow Americans (1996) — Kaye Griffin
  19. Night Court (1984) — Heather
  20. Nothing in Common (1986) — Cheryl Ann Wayne
  21. The View (1997) — Self
  22. Hello Again (1987) — Kim Lacey
  23. L.A. Law (1986) — Lynette Pierce
  24. The Badge (2002) — Carla Hardwick
  25. The Man Who Loved Women (1983) — Janet Wainwright
  26. Rustlers' Rhapsody (1985) — Colonel's Daughter
  27. On Air with Ryan Seacrest (2004) — Self
  28. Steele Justice (1987) — Tracy
  29. Hotel (1982)
  30. Graves (2016) — Margaret Graves
  31. Once and Again (1999) — Lily Manning
  32. The Haunting of Sarah Hardy (1989) — Sarah York
  33. Double Jeopardy (1992) — Karen Hart
  34. The Talk (2010) — Self
  35. Delirium (2014)
  36. Child of Darkness, Child of Light (1991) — Sister Anne McBain
  37. Sisters (1991) — Theodora 'Teddy' Reed
  38. Rainbow Drive (1990) — Laura Demming
  39. Catch a Falling Star (2000) — Sydney Clarke
  40. The Tony Danza Show (2004) — Self