Actor
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 ...

Known For
Acting
2016 -- Independence Day: Resurgence | President Lanford
2014 -- Gone Girl | Sharon Schieber
2009 -- The Stepfather | Susan Harding
2006 -- The Guardian | Helen Randall
2004 -- Suburban Madness | Bobbi Bacha
2004 -- The Day After Tomorrow | Dr. Lucy Hall
2004 -- Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights | Jeannie Miller
2002 -- The Badge | Carla Hardwick
2000 -- Catch a Falling Star | Sydney Clarke
1999 -- Runaway Bride | Pretty Bar Woman
1999 -- Passion's Way | Anna Leath
1998 -- 54 | Billie Auster
1997 -- Rescuers: Stories of Courage - Two Women | Marie-Rose Gineste (segment "Woman on a Bicycle")
1996 -- My Fellow Americans | Kaye Griffin
1995 -- Almost Golden: The Jessica Savitch Story | Jessica Savitch
1993 -- The Fugitive | Helen Kimble
1993 -- Killer Rules | Dorothy Wade
1992 -- Double Jeopardy | Karen Hart
1991 -- Child of Darkness, Child of Light | Sister Anne McBain
1990 -- Rainbow Drive | Laura Demming
1989 -- The Haunting of Sarah Hardy | Sarah York
1989 -- Bridesmaids | Caryl
1987 -- The King of Love | Annie Larkspur
1987 -- Hello Again | Kim Lacey
1987 -- Cameo by Night | Jennifer / Cameo
1987 -- Steele Justice | Tracy
1986 -- Nothing in Common | Cheryl Ann Wayne
1985 -- Rustlers' Rhapsody | Colonel's Daughter
1983 -- The Man Who Loved Women | Janet Wainwright
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