Sela Ward

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". In response, she developed and produced a documentary, The Changing Face of Beauty, about American obsession with youth and its effect on women. Ward succeeded Candice Bergen as commercial spokesperson for Sprint's long distance phone service (1999-2002). She also appeared on Frasier as supermodel/ zoologist Kelly Easterbrook in the 5th season opener ("Frasier's Imaginary Friend"). When she read for the role of Lily Brooks Manning on the ABC drama series Once and Again (1999–2002), its creators (Edward Zwick and Marshall Herskovitz of thirtysomething fame) initially deemed her "too beautiful" for the average single mother to identify with. Ward received her 2nd lead actress Primetime Emmy Award and a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Drama In 2004, she played the a private investigator in the TV movie Suburban Madness and she also appeared in the feature film The Day After Tomorrow with Dennis Quaid and Jake Gyllenhaal. In 2005, she landed a recurring role in the Fox series House as Stacy Warner, the hospital's attorney and formidable ex-partner of the protagonist Dr. Gregory House (Hugh Laurie), until her character was written off the show in 2006. She was originally offered both the role of Megan Donner on CSI: Miami and Susan Mayer on Desperate Housewives, but turned both down. She was reluctant to commit to another lead role in an hour-long series because of the time away from her family it would require. Although she was on a brief hiatus from TV, she continued to appear in feature films. She starred opposite Kevin Costner in The Guardian in 2006 and starred in the thriller The Stepfather in 2009. In July 2010, she signed on to star in CSI: NY at the start of the 7th season and remained until the 9th and final season'. She appeared as newswoman Sharon Schieber in Gone Girl (2014), and co-starred as the President of the United States in Independence Day: Resurgence (2016). She also played the leading role alongside Nick Nolte in the political comedy series Graves. She had a leading role in the crime series FBI (2018) for its' 1st season.

Known For: Acting

Born: Meridian, Mississippi, USA, 1956-07-11

Died: null

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1983	The Man Who Loved Women	Janet Wainwright	48
2	1985	Rustlers' Rhapsody	Colonel's Daughter	55
3	1986	Nothing in Common	Cheryl Ann Wayne	58
4	1987	Steele Justice	Tracy	47
5	1987	Cameo by Night	Jennifer / Cameo	0
6	1987	Hello Again	Kim Lacey	58
7	1987	The King of Love	Annie Larkspur	0
8	1989	Bridesmaids	Caryl	60
9	1989	The Haunting of Sarah Hardy	Sarah York	47
10	1990	Rainbow Drive	Laura Demming	46
11	1991	Child of Darkness, Child of Light	Sister Anne McBain	57
12	1992	Double Jeopardy	Karen Hart	52
13	1993	Killer Rules	Dorothy Wade	0
14	1993	The Fugitive	Helen Kimble	75
15	1995	Almost Golden: The Jessica Savitch Story	Jessica Savitch	55
16	1996	My Fellow Americans	Kaye Griffin	60
17	1997	Rescuers: Stories of Courage - Two Women	Marie-Rose Gineste (segment "Woman on a Bicycle")	70
18	1998	54	Billie Auster	59
19	1999	Passion's Way	Anna Leath	40
20	1999	Runaway Bride	Pretty Bar Woman	61
21	2000	Catch a Falling Star	Sydney Clarke	56
22	2002	The Badge	Carla Hardwick	59
23	2004	Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights	Jeannie Miller	64
24	2004	The Day After Tomorrow	Dr. Lucy Hall	65
25	2004	Suburban Madness	Bobbi Bacha	50
26	2006	The Guardian	Helen Randall	71
27	2009	The Stepfather	Susan Harding	58
28	2014	Gone Girl	Sharon Schieber	79
29	2016	Independence Day: Resurgence	President Lanford	53

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1982	Hotel		68
2	1983	Emerald Point N.A.S.	Hilary Adams	50
3	1984	Night Court	Heather	74
4	1986	L.A. Law	Lynette Pierce	71
5	1989	Christine Cromwell		73
6	1991	Sisters	Theodora 'Teddy' Reed	72
7	1993	Frasier	Kelly Easterbrook	77
8	1993	Intimate Portrait	Self	45
9	1997	The View	Self	45
10	1997	The New Batman Adventures	Calendar Girl / Page Monroe (voice)	80
11	1999	Once and Again	Lily Manning	68
12	2004	On Air with Ryan Seacrest	Self	95
13	2004	The Tony Danza Show	Self	61
14	2004	CSI: NY	Jo Danville	74
15	2004	House	Stacy Warner	86
16	2006	The Megan Mullally Show	Self - Guest	42
17	2014	Delirium		97
18	2016	Westworld	Juliet	80
19	2016	Graves	Margaret Graves	51
20	2018	FBI	Dana Mosier	79

Sela Ward

Film

Television