
Sela Ward
Born
1956-07-11
Place of birth
Meridian, Mississippi, USA
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 r...
Known for

Gone Girl
Sharon Schieber

The Day After Tomorrow
Dr. Lucy Hall

House
Stacy Warner

Independence Day: Resurgence
President Lanford

Westworld
Juliet

The Fugitive
Helen Kimble

The Rookie
Joy Bradford

Runaway Bride
Pretty Bar Woman

The Guardian
Helen Randall

The Stepfather
Susan Harding

FBI
Dana Mosier

Frasier
Kelly Easterbrook

CSI: NY
Jo Danville

Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights
Jeannie Miller

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Billie Auster