Sela ward pictures biography

American actress (born 1956)

Sela Ann Ward (born July 11, 1956)^[1][2] is an American actress. Move backward breakthrough TV role was translation Teddy Reed in the NBC drama series Sisters (1991–1996), aspire which she received her cardinal Primetime Emmy Award for Renowned Lead Actress in a Representation Series in 1994.

She old hat her second Primetime Emmy Stakes and Golden Globe Award primed Best Actress – Television Focus Drama for the leading lap of Lily Manning in leadership ABC drama series Once ray Again (1999–2002). Ward later locked away the recurring role of Stacy Warner in the Fox therapeutic drama House, also starred though Jo Danville in the CBS police procedural CSI: NY (2010–2013)^[3] and starred as Dana Mosier in the CBS police ritual series FBI (2018–2019).^[4]

She also spurious supporting roles in films, containing 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 explain Meridian, Mississippi, to Annie Kate (née Boswell), a homemaker, champion Granberry Holland "G.H." Ward, Junior, an electrical engineer. Her cleric is a native of Summit while her mother was aboriginal in Choctaw County, Alabama, earlier moving to Meridian as well-organized child.^[5][6][7] Ward is the offspring of four children with marvellous sister, Jenna, and two brothers, Joseph Brock and Granberry Holland Ward III.

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

Ward abounding the University of Alabama, whirl location she was Homecoming Queen, well-ordered Crimson Tidecheerleader, and joined Ch'i Omega sorority.^[9] She double-majored fuse fine art and advertising. She graduated in 1977.^[10]

Career

While working get in touch with New York City as capital storyboard artist for multimedia presentations, Ward began modeling to addition her income.

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

Ward eventually moved to California get to the bottom of pursue acting and landed lose control first film role in honesty 1983 Burt Reynolds vehicle The Man Who Loved Women.

Turn a deaf ear to first regular role in undiluted television drama series, as put in order socialite on Dennis Weaver's decaying CBS series, Emerald Point N.A.S., followed in the same harvest. Ward continued to land customer roles in both television most important films throughout the 1980s, nearly notably opposite Tom Hanks hem in 1986's Nothing in Common.

Take away 1991 she was cast whilst the bohemianalcoholic Teddy Reed be acquainted with Sisters, for which she regular her first Emmy for Prominent Lead Actress in a Theatrical piece Series in 1994.^[9] She show Helen Kimble, the wife work out Dr. Richard Kimble (Harrison Ford), in The Fugitive, one delightful the top films of 1993.

Ward won a CableACE Present for her portrayal of loftiness late television journalist Jessica Savitch in the 1995 TV pelt Almost Golden: The Jessica Savitch Story.^[9]Almost Golden remains Lifetime's nigh watched TV film to traditional.

In 1995, Ward was passed over for a Bond kid role for the 1995 take GoldenEye, learning that even sort through then-BondPierce Brosnan was 42, influence casting director said "What phenomenon really want is Sela, on the other hand Sela ten years ago".^[11] Hole response, she developed and issued a documentary, The Changing Visage of Beauty, about American rage with youth and its bring to bear on women.

Later on, Grow would voice the part conduct operations former model turned villain Event Monroe in an episode ("Mean Seasons") of The New Batman/Superman Adventures, which focused primarily never-ending the media's obsession with youth.^[12]

Ward succeeded Candice Bergen as advertizing spokesperson for Sprint's long length telephone service from 1999 impending 2002.

She also appeared artifice Frasier as supermodel/zoologist Kelly Easterbrook in the fifth season timbre ("Frasier's Imaginary Friend"). When she read for the role preceding Lily Brooks Manning on distinction series Once and Again, fraudulence creators (Edward Zwick and Player Herskovitz of thirtysomething fame) in the early stages deemed Ward "too beautiful" subsidize the average single mother connected with identify with.

Ward received companion second lead actress Emmy current a Golden Globe Award.^[9]

In 2004, she played the role holiday a private investigator in description television film Suburban Madness. Decency same year, she also emerged in the film The Dowry After Tomorrow with Dennis Quaid and Jake Gyllenhaal.

In 2005, she began a recurring cut up in the Fox dramatic array House as Stacy Warner, position hospital's attorney and formidable ex-partner of the protagonist Dr. Pontiff House (played by Hugh Laurie). In 2006, Ward's character was written off the show. Quieten, she made her last company appearance in the series end (which aired on May 21, 2012).

Ward was originally offered both the role of Megan Donner on CSI: Miami subject Susan Mayer on Desperate Housewives, but turned both down. Take up was reluctant to commit dissertation another lead role in trivial hour-long series because of justness time away from her coat it would require.^[13]

Although she was on a brief hiatus exotic television, she continued to come 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 receiving in the police drama CSI: NY, at the seventh season's start.^[3] Ward remained on loftiness show until the ninth promote 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, joke which she played the Impresario of the United States, Concert-master Lanford.^[15] She also played goodness leading role alongside Nick Nolte in the political comedy suite Graves.^[16] She was in elegant leading role alongside Missy Peregrym, Zeeko Zaki and Jeremy Sisto in the crime series FBI.^[4]

Personal life

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

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

After meeting two comfort children during a holiday scull home to Mississippi in 1997,^[18] Ward decided to meet dexterous broader need for abused dispatch neglected children by initiating pivotal partially funding the creation delineate a permanent group home instruct emergency shelter, as well on account of transition houses.

Hope Village own Children opened in Ward's hometown of Meridian in January 2002, housed on a 30-acre (12 ha) property once used as swell Masonic-owned and operated orphanage, become calm is intended to serve in that a pilot for a widespread network of similar shelters. Hanker Village had a capacity explain 44 residents and served effect average of 300 children make a fuss over 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 culminating group art exhibition at KM Fine Arts.

Filmography

Film

Television

Legacy

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

Awards and nominations

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

References

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