About
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...
Known for
The RookieSeries • 2018
HouseSeries • 2004
FBISeries • 2018
FrasierSeries • 1993
WestworldSeries • 2016
CSI: NYSeries • 2004
L.A. LawSeries • 1986
Night CourtSeries • 1984
HotelSeries • 1982
Gone GirlMovie • 2014
The New Batman AdventuresSeries • 1997
Once and AgainSeries • 1999
Independence Day: ResurgenceMovie • 2016
The FugitiveMovie • 1993
The Day After TomorrowMovie • 2004
GravesSeries • 2016
The GuardianMovie • 2006
Runaway BrideMovie • 1999
The StepfatherMovie • 2009
Dirty Dancing: Havana NightsMovie • 2004
Nothing in CommonMovie • 1986
54Movie • 1998
Hello AgainMovie • 1987
My Fellow AmericansMovie • 1996