Sela Ward
Acting
Born: Jul 11, 1956
From: Meridian, Mississippi, USA
Credits: 30 titles
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 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 TV movie Almost Golden: The Jessica Savitch Story, which remains Lifetime's most watched TV movie to date. In 1995, she was passed over for a Bond girl role, learning that even though then-Bond Pierce Brosnan was 42, the casting director said …
Filmography
| Title | Character | Year | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| Independence Day: Resurgence | President Lanford | 2016 | 5.356 |
| Gone Girl | Sharon Schieber | 2014 | 7.889 |
| The Stepfather | Susan Harding | 2009 | 5.8 |
| The Guardian | Helen Randall | 2006 | 7.127 |
| The Day After Tomorrow | Dr. Lucy Hall | 2004 | 6.553 |
| Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights | Jeannie Miller | 2004 | 6.42 |
| Suburban Madness | Bobbi Bacha | 2004 | 6.667 |
| The Badge | Carla Hardwick | 2002 | 5.75 |
| Catch a Falling Star | Sydney Clarke | 2000 | 5.938 |
| Runaway Bride | Pretty Bar Woman | 1999 | 6.107 |
| Passion's Way | Anna Leath | 1999 | 5.0 |
| 54 | Billie Auster | 1998 | 5.853 |
| Rescuers: Stories of Courage - Two Women | Marie-Rose Gineste (segment "Woman on … | 1997 | 8.5 |
| My Fellow Americans | Kaye Griffin | 1996 | 6.041 |
| Almost Golden: The Jessica Savitch Story | Jessica Savitch | 1995 | 6.333 |
| The Fugitive | Helen Kimble | 1993 | 7.5 |
| Killer Rules | Dorothy Wade | 1993 | 10.0 |
| Double Jeopardy | Karen Hart | 1992 | 5.179 |
| Child of Darkness, Child of Light | Sister Anne McBain | 1991 | 6.0 |
| Rainbow Drive | Laura Demming | 1990 | 5.125 |
| The Haunting of Sarah Hardy | Sarah York | 1989 | 4.75 |
| Bridesmaids | Caryl | 1989 | 7.0 |
| Cameo by Night | Jennifer / Cameo | 1987 | 9.0 |
| Hello Again | Kim Lacey | 1987 | 5.745 |
| Steele Justice | Tracy | 1987 | 4.815 |
| The King of Love | Annie Larkspur | 1987 | — |
| Nothing in Common | Cheryl Ann Wayne | 1986 | 5.866 |
| Rustlers' Rhapsody | Colonel's Daughter | 1985 | 5.587 |
| Night Court TV | Heather | 1984 | 7.318 |
| The Man Who Loved Women | Janet Wainwright | 1983 | 4.8 |
| Known for | Acting |
| Credits | 30 |
| Born | 1956 |
| From | Meridian, Mississippi, USA |