Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
7/11/1956
Place of Birth
Meridian, Mississippi, USA
Also Known As
Sela Ann Wardسلا وارد
Sela Ward
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
as Sharon Schieber
The Day After Tomorrow
as Dr. Lucy Hall
The Fugitive
as Helen Kimble
The Guardian
as Helen Randall
Independence Day: Resurgence
as President Lanford
Runaway Bride
as Pretty Bar Woman
The Badge
as Carla Hardwick
Rustlers' Rhapsody
as Colonel's Daughter
Bridesmaids
as Caryl
The Stepfather
as Susan Harding
Steele Justice
as Tracy
Double Jeopardy
as Karen Hart
Hello Again
as Kim Lacey
54
as Billie Auster
Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights
as Jeannie Miller
Catch a Falling Star
as Sydney Clarke
Nothing in Common
as Cheryl Ann Wayne
Killer Rules
as Dorothy Wade
My Fellow Americans
as Kaye Griffin
Almost Golden: The Jessica Savitch Story
as Jessica Savitch