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
Complete Filmography
Independence Day: Resurgence
2016
as President Lanford
We always knew they were coming back. Using recovered alien technology, the nations of Earth have collaborated on an immense defense program to protec...
Gone Girl
2014
as Sharon Schieber
With his wife's disappearance having become the focus of an intense media circus, a man sees the spotlight turned on him when it's suspected that he m...
The Stepfather
2009
as Susan Harding
Michael Harding returns home from military school to find his mother happily in love and living with her new boyfriend, David. As the two men get to k...
The Guardian
2006
as Helen Randall
A high school swim champion with a troubled past enrolls in the U.S. Coast Guard's 'A' School, where legendary rescue swimmer Ben Randall teaches him ...
Suburban Madness
2004
as Bobbi Bacha
Based on the real story of Clara Harris, the Houston, Texas dentist who made headlines in July 2002 when she killed her adulterous husband by repeated...
The Day After Tomorrow
2004
as Dr. Lucy Hall
After paleoclimatologist Jack Hall is largely ignored by UN officials when presenting his environmental concerns about the beginning of a new Ice Age,...
Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights
2004
as Jeannie Miller
In pre-revolution Cuba, Katey Miller is about to defy everyone's expectations. Instead of a parent-approved suitor, Katey is drawn to the sexy waiter,...
The Badge
2002
as Carla Hardwick
A sheriff begins an investigation into the death of a local transsexual after hearing that high ranking politicians may have been involved. Although h...
Catch a Falling Star
2000
as Sydney Clarke
Stranded in a small town, true love prepares a spoiled movie star for the role of a lifetime... herself.
Catch a Falling Star
2000
Executive Producer
Stranded in a small town, true love prepares a spoiled movie star for the role of a lifetime... herself.
Runaway Bride
1999
as Pretty Bar Woman
Having already left three grooms at the altar, Maggie Carpenter is branded "the runaway bride" by jaded New York journalist Ike Graham. But, after his...
Passion's Way
1999
as Anna Leath
Set in early 1900s France, a widow renews a former romantic interest until it is discovered that he has had a past fling with one of her new employees...
54
1998
as Billie Auster
Shane O'Shea, a Jersey boy with big dreams, crosses the river in hopes of finding another, more exciting life at Studio 54. When Steve Rubell, the mas...
Rescuers: Stories of Courage - Two Women
1997
as Marie-Rose Gineste (segment "Woman on a Bicycle")
First in a series of anthology films dealing with Christians who put their lives on the line to help rescue Jews from the Holocaust. In the first of ...
My Fellow Americans
1996
as Kaye Griffin
They used to run the country. Now they're running for their lives! Two on-the-lam former Presidents of the United States. Framed in a scandal by the c...
Almost Golden: The Jessica Savitch Story
1995
as Jessica Savitch
The story of one of America's first female reporters.
The Fugitive
1993
as Helen Kimble
Wrongfully convicted of murdering his wife and sentenced to death, Richard Kimble escapes from the law in an attempt to find the real killer and clear...
Killer Rules
1993
as Dorothy Wade
Two adoptive brothers -- one a mob hit man, the other a Department of Justice investigator -- who are unaware of each other's existence until they bec...
Double Jeopardy
1992
as Karen Hart
Jack Hart lives with his lawyer wife and yound daughter and enjoys a wonderful life. Jack's old girlfriend, Lisa, comes into town and they have an aff...
Child of Darkness, Child of Light
1991
as Sister Anne McBain
A Catholic priest is sent to investigate reports of two virgin conceptions. One is about to give birth to the child of God and the other is the child ...
Rainbow Drive
1990
as Laura Demming
A Hollywood multiple murder is investigated by a homicide cop, despite high-placed efforts to cover up the crime.
The Haunting of Sarah Hardy
1989
as Sarah York
Sela Ward stars as beautiful, vulnerable heiress Sarah Hardy, recently wed and returning to her isolated childhood home, The Pines, to claim her vast ...
Bridesmaids
1989
as Caryl
Four very different women, best friends during high school many years earlier, gather in the small town where they grew up for a reunion as bridesmaid...
The King of Love
1987
as Annie Larkspur
A publishing empire founder discovers that his rise to power was costly.
Hello Again
1987
as Kim Lacey
A suburban housewife chokes to death and is brought back to life by a spell cast by her wacky sister.
Cameo by Night
1987
as Jennifer / Cameo
Failed TV pilot about Jennifer, a police secretary who goes undercover as rock fan Cameo to search the music scene for a serial killer who preys upon ...
Steele Justice
1987
as Tracy
Steele is ex-cop and Vietnam vet who is determined to bring down Kwan, former South Vietnamese general and now rich and powerful drug lord.
Nothing in Common
1986
as Cheryl Ann Wayne
A successful advertising executive finds his freewheeling life crashing to a halt when his parents end their longtime marriage.
Rustlers' Rhapsody
1985
as Colonel's Daughter
A singing cowboy roams the Wild West with his sidekick, dancing horse and fancy wardrobe.
The Man Who Loved Women
1983
as Janet Wainwright
A womanizing sculptor seeks help from a psychiatrist to cure him of his obsession with women.