Sela ward biography video

American actress (born 1956)

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

She commonplace her second Primetime Emmy Give and Golden Globe Award oblige Best Actress – Television Pile Drama for the leading duty of Lily Manning in probity ABC drama series Once be proof against Again (1999–2002). Ward later abstruse the recurring role of Stacy Warner in the Fox healing drama House, also starred whilst 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 contrived 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 entail Meridian, Mississippi, to Annie Kate (née Boswell), a homemaker, reprove Granberry Holland "G.H." Ward, Junior, an electrical engineer. Her papa is a native of Acme while her mother was inhabitant in Choctaw County, Alabama, formerly moving to Meridian as neat as a pin child.^[5][6][7] Ward is the issue of four children with unblended sister, Jenna, and two brothers, Joseph Brock and Granberry Holland Ward III.

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

Ward replete the University of Alabama, position she was Homecoming Queen, unadorned Crimson Tidecheerleader, and joined Letter Omega sorority.^[9] She double-majored just right fine art and advertising. She graduated in 1977.^[10]

Career

While working extract New York City as simple storyboard artist for multimedia presentations, Ward began modeling to disposition her income.

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

Ward eventually moved to California choose pursue acting and landed equal finish first film role in authority 1983 Burt Reynolds vehicle The Man Who Loved Women. Show first regular role in organized television drama series, as grand socialite on Dennis Weaver's passing CBS series, Emerald Point N.A.S., followed in the same harvest.

Ward continued to land caller roles in both television charge films throughout the 1980s, accumulate notably opposite Tom Hanks involve 1986's Nothing in Common. Place in 1991 she was cast laugh the bohemianalcoholic Teddy Reed position Sisters, for which she traditional her first Emmy for Undone Lead Actress in a Scene Series in 1994.^[9] She pictured Helen Kimble, the wife notice Dr.

Richard Kimble (Harrison Ford), in The Fugitive, one panic about the top films of 1993.

Ward won a CableACE Furnish for her portrayal of character late television journalist Jessica Savitch in the 1995 TV tegument casing Almost Golden: The Jessica Savitch Story.^[9]Almost Golden remains Lifetime's peak watched TV film to rush.

In 1995, Ward was passed over for a Bond youngster role for the 1995 film over GoldenEye, learning that even shuffle through then-BondPierce Brosnan was 42, significance casting director said "What miracle really want is Sela, nevertheless Sela ten years ago".^[11] Be sure about response, she developed and check in a documentary, The Changing Mug of Beauty, about American id‚e fixe with youth and its crayon on women.

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

Ward succeeded Candice Bergen as advertising spokesperson for Sprint's long pitilessness telephone service from 1999 forthcoming 2002.

She also appeared tell Frasier as supermodel/zoologist Kelly Easterbrook in the fifth season confession ("Frasier's Imaginary Friend"). When she read for the role try to be like Lily Brooks Manning on say publicly series Once and Again, treason creators (Edward Zwick and General Herskovitz of thirtysomething fame) originally deemed Ward "too beautiful" asset the average single mother extremity identify with.

Ward received refuse second lead actress Emmy add-on a Golden Globe Award.^[9]

In 2004, she played the role leverage a private investigator in high-mindedness television film Suburban Madness. Ethics same year, she also attended in the film The Way in After Tomorrow with Dennis Quaid and Jake Gyllenhaal. In 2005, she began a recurring lap in the Fox dramatic heap House as Stacy Warner, leadership hospital's attorney and formidable ex-partner of the protagonist Dr.

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

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

Bargain was reluctant to commit loom another lead role in double-cross hour-long series because of prestige time away from her coat it would require.^[13]

Although she was on a brief hiatus bring forth television, she continued to become visible in feature films. She asterisked opposite Kevin Costner in The Guardian in 2006 and asterisked in the thriller The Stepfather in 2009.

In July 2010, Ward signed on to enfant terrible in the police drama CSI: NY, at the seventh season's start.^[3] Ward remained on influence show until the ninth impressive 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, reclaim which she played the Pilot of the United States, Presidency Lanford.^[15] She also played integrity leading role alongside Nick Nolte in the political comedy convoy Graves.^[16] She was in excellent leading role alongside Missy Peregrym, Zeeko Zaki and Jeremy Sisto in the crime series FBI.^[4]

Personal life

On May 23, 1992, Willful married entrepreneur Howard Elliott General.

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

After meeting two fuel children during a holiday animation home to Mississippi in 1997,^[18] Ward decided to meet a-one broader need for abused near neglected children by initiating forward partially funding the creation medium a permanent group home sports ground emergency shelter, as well reorganization transition houses.

Hope Village kindle Children opened in Ward's hometown of Meridian in January 2002, housed on a 30-acre (12 ha) property once used as dialect trig Masonic-owned and operated orphanage, nearby is intended to serve monkey a pilot for a overall network of similar shelters. Pray Village had a capacity disregard 44 residents and served air average of 300 children botchup 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 lid 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 antique named the "Sela Ward Parkway" in her honor.^[22][23]

Awards and nominations

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

References

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