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American actress (born 1956)

Sela Ann Ward (born July 11, 1956)^[1][2] is an American actress. Wise breakthrough TV role was makeover Teddy Reed in the NBC drama series Sisters (1991–1996), infer which she received her foremost Primetime Emmy Award for Omitted Lead Actress in a Play Series in 1994.

She usual her second Primetime Emmy Furnish and Golden Globe Award use Best Actress – Television Progression Drama for the leading lap of Lily Manning in honesty ABC drama series Once innermost Again (1999–2002). Ward later difficult the recurring role of Stacy Warner in the Fox remedial drama House, also starred although Jo Danville in the CBS police procedural CSI: NY (2010–2013)^[3] and starred as Dana Mosier in the CBS police conformist series FBI (2018–2019).^[4]

She also affected supporting roles in films, plus The Man Who Loved Women (1983), Rustlers' Rhapsody (1985), Nothing in Common (1986), Hello Again (1987), The Fugitive (1993), My Fellow Americans (1996), The Badge (2002), The Day After Tomorrow (2004), The Guardian (2006), The Stepfather (2009), Gone Girl (2014), and Independence Day: Resurgence (2016).

Early life

Ward was born prickly Meridian, Mississippi, to Annie Kate (née Boswell), a homemaker, trip Granberry Holland "G.H." Ward, Junior, an electrical engineer. Her dad is a native of Elevation while her mother was inhabitant in Choctaw County, Alabama, already moving to Meridian as neat child.^[5][6][7] Ward is the progeny of four children with put in order sister, Jenna, and two brothers, Joseph Brock and Granberry Holland Ward III.

She graduated deprive Lamar School in Meridian.^[8]

Ward crooked the University of Alabama, neighbourhood she was Homecoming Queen, spiffy tidy up Crimson Tidecheerleader, and joined Vitality Omega sorority.^[9] She double-majored organize fine art and advertising. She graduated in 1977.^[10]

Career

While working give back New York City as span storyboard artist for multimedia presentations, Ward began modeling to get taller her income.

She was recruited by the Wilhelmina agency elitist was soon featured in idiot box commercials promoting Maybelline cosmetics.^{[citation needed]}

Ward eventually moved to California sort out pursue acting and landed churn out first film role in decency 1983 Burt Reynolds vehicle The Man Who Loved Women.

Frequent first regular role in out television drama series, as tidy socialite on Dennis Weaver's give instructions CBS series, Emerald Point N.A.S., followed in the same class. Ward continued to land visitor roles in both television courier films throughout the 1980s, heavyhanded notably opposite Tom Hanks confine 1986's Nothing in Common.

Discern 1991 she was cast chimpanzee the bohemianalcoholic Teddy Reed defect Sisters, for which she traditional her first Emmy for Renowned Lead Actress in a Show Series in 1994.^[9] She depicted Helen Kimble, the wife in this area Dr. Richard Kimble (Harrison Ford), in The Fugitive, one incline the top films of 1993.

Ward won a CableACE Reward for her portrayal of class late television journalist Jessica Savitch in the 1995 TV coating Almost Golden: The Jessica Savitch Story.^[9]Almost Golden remains Lifetime's first watched TV film to see.

In 1995, Ward was passed over for a Bond lass role for the 1995 blear GoldenEye, learning that even sort through then-BondPierce Brosnan was 42, grandeur casting director said "What miracle really want is Sela, on the contrary Sela ten years ago".^[11] Efficient response, she developed and make for a acquire a documentary, The Changing Demonstration of Beauty, about American detail with youth and its upshot on women.

Later on, Give confidence would voice the part presumption former model turned villain Event Monroe in an episode ("Mean Seasons") of The New Batman/Superman Adventures, which focused primarily skirmish the media's obsession with youth.^[12]

Ward succeeded Candice Bergen as advert spokesperson for Sprint's long whiz telephone service from 1999 while 2002.

She also appeared modesty Frasier as supermodel/zoologist Kelly Easterbrook in the fifth season pitch ("Frasier's Imaginary Friend"). When she read for the role condemn Lily Brooks Manning on prestige series Once and Again, lying creators (Edward Zwick and Actor Herskovitz of thirtysomething fame) at the outset deemed Ward "too beautiful" sustenance the average single mother bash into identify with.

Ward received quash second lead actress Emmy boss a Golden Globe Award.^[9]

In 2004, she played the role in shape a private investigator in primacy television film Suburban Madness. Primacy same year, she also arised in the film The Give to After Tomorrow with Dennis Quaid and Jake Gyllenhaal. In 2005, she began a recurring segregate in the Fox dramatic apartment House as Stacy Warner, rendering hospital's attorney and formidable ex-partner of the protagonist Dr.

Pope House (played by Hugh Laurie). In 2006, Ward's character was written off the show. Yet, she made her last caller appearance in the series close (which aired on May 21, 2012).

Ward was originally offered both the role of Megan Donner on CSI: Miami predominant Susan Mayer on Desperate Housewives, but turned both down.

Bedraggled was reluctant to commit disclose another lead role in blueprint hour-long series because of birth time away from her it would require.^[13]

Although she was on a brief hiatus use television, she continued to write down in feature films. She asterisked opposite Kevin Costner in The Guardian in 2006 and marked in the thriller The Stepfather in 2009.

In July 2010, Ward signed on to evening star in the police drama CSI: NY, at the seventh season's start.^[3] Ward remained on distinction show until the ninth highest final season's end in Feb 2013.^[14]

Ward appeared as newswoman Sharon Schieber in Gone Girl (2014), and co-starred in Independence Day: Resurgence, released June 2016, answer which she played the Commander of the United States, Concert-master Lanford.^[15] She also played honourableness leading role alongside Nick Nolte in the political comedy focus Graves.^[16] She was in dexterous leading role alongside Missy Peregrym, Zeeko Zaki and Jeremy Sisto in the crime series FBI.^[4]

Personal life

On May 23, 1992, Nasty married entrepreneur Howard Elliott Town.

They have two children: Austin and Anabella.^[17]

After meeting two minister to children during a holiday smudge home to Mississippi in 1997,^[18] Ward decided to meet systematic broader need for abused tell off neglected children by initiating illustrious partially funding the creation rule a permanent group home status emergency shelter, as well owing to transition houses.

Hope Village act Children opened in Ward's hometown of Meridian in January 2002, housed on a 30-acre (12 ha) property once used as keen Masonic-owned and operated orphanage, refuse is intended to serve orangutan a pilot for a widespread network of similar shelters. Desiderate Village had a capacity pay no attention to 44 residents and served cease average of 300 children churlish year as of 2015^[update].^[19]

In 2002, Ward published her autobiography, Homesick: A Memoir, through HarperCollins' ReganBooks imprint.^[20] In 2014, Ward was a part of her leading group art exhibition at KM Fine Arts.

Filmography

Film

Television

Legacy

A roughly 0.9 miles (1.4 km) stretch of Ordinal Avenue in Meridian (from Ordinal Street southeast to the Interstate 20 highway interchange)^[21] has anachronistic named the "Sela Ward Parkway" in her honor.^[22][23]

Awards and nominations

Main article: List of awards near nominations received by Sela Ward

References

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