- Known For
- Acting
- Born
- July 11, 1956
- Place of Birth
- Meridian, Mississippi, USA
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 …
Filmography
tvThe Rookie
2018 · Joy Bradford
tvFBI
2018 · Dana Mosier
tvGraves
2016 · Margaret Graves
tvWestworld
2016 · Juliet
movieIndependence Day: Resurgence
2016 · President Lanford
movieGone Girl
2014 · Sharon Schieber
tvDelirium
2014
tvThe Talk
2010 · Self
movieThe Stepfather
2009 · Susan Harding
movieThe Guardian
2006 · Helen Randall
tvThe Megan Mullally Show
2006 · Self - Guest
tvHouse
2004 · Stacy Warner
movieSuburban Madness
2004 · Bobbi Bacha
tvCSI: NY
2004 · Jo Danville
The Tony Danza Show
tvThe Tony Danza Show
2004 · Self
movieThe Day After Tomorrow
2004 · Dr. Lucy Hall
movieDirty Dancing: Havana Nights
2004 · Jeannie Miller
tvOn Air with Ryan Seacrest
2004 · Self
movieThe Badge
2002 · Carla Hardwick
movieCatch a Falling Star
2000 · Sydney Clarke, Executive Producer
tvOnce and Again
1999 · Lily Manning
movieRunaway Bride
1999 · Pretty Bar Woman
moviePassion's Way
1999 · Anna Leath
movie54
1998 · Billie Auster
movieRescuers: Stories of Courage - Two Women
1997 · Marie-Rose Gineste (segment "Woman on a Bicycle")
tvThe New Batman Adventures
1997 · Calendar Girl / Page Monroe (voice)
tvThe View
1997 · Self
movieMy Fellow Americans
1996 · Kaye Griffin
movieAlmost Golden: The Jessica Savitch Story
1995 · Jessica Savitch
tvIntimate Portrait
1993 · Self
tvFrasier
1993 · Kelly Easterbrook
movieThe Fugitive
1993 · Helen Kimble
movieKiller Rules
1993 · Dorothy Wade
movieDouble Jeopardy
1992 · Karen Hart
tvSisters
1991 · Theodora 'Teddy' Reed
movieChild of Darkness, Child of Light
1991 · Sister Anne McBain
movieRainbow Drive
1990 · Laura Demming
tvChristine Cromwell
1989
movieThe Haunting of Sarah Hardy
1989 · Sarah York
movieBridesmaids
1989 · Caryl
The King of Love
movieThe King of Love
1987 · Annie Larkspur
movieHello Again
1987 · Kim Lacey
movieCameo by Night
1987 · Jennifer / Cameo
movieSteele Justice
1987 · Tracy
tvL.A. Law
1986 · Lynette Pierce
movieNothing in Common
1986 · Cheryl Ann Wayne
movieRustlers' Rhapsody
1985 · Colonel's Daughter
tvNight Court
1984 · Heather
movieThe Man Who Loved Women
1983 · Janet Wainwright
tvEmerald Point N.A.S.
1983 · Hilary Adams
tvHotel
1982
tvSaturday Night Live
1975 · Woman in Fur Coat (uncredited)