Sela Ann Ward (born July 11, 1956) is an American actress, author, and
producer. Her breakthrough TV role was as Teddy Reed in the NBC drama
series Sisters (1991â€"96), for which she received her first Primetime
Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series in 1994. She
received her second Primetime Emmy Award and Golden Globe Award for
Best Actress â€" Television Series Drama for the leading role of Lily
Manning in the ABC drama series Once and Again (1999â€"2002). Ward
later had the recurring role of Stacy Warner in the Fox medical drama
House, also starred as Jo Danville in the CBS police procedural CSI:
NY (2010â€"2013) and starred as Dana Mosier in the CBS police
procedural series FBI (2018â€"2019).She also played supporting roles
in films, including The Man Who Loved Women (1983), Rustlers' Rhapsody
(1985), Nothing in Common (1986), Hello Again (1987), The Fugitive
(1993), My Fellow Americans (1996), The Day After Tomorrow (2004), The
Guardian (2006), The Stepfather (2009), and Gone Girl (2014).Ward was
born in Meridian, Mississippi, to Annie Kate (née Boswell), a
housewife, and Granberry Holland "G.H." Ward, Jr., an electrical
engineer. Her father is a native of Meridian while her mother was born
in Choctaw County, Alabama, before moving to Meridian as a child. Ward
is the eldest of four children with a sister, Jenna, and two brothers,
Joseph Brock and Granberry Holland Ward III. She graduated from Lamar
School in Meridian.
producer. Her breakthrough TV role was as Teddy Reed in the NBC drama
series Sisters (1991â€"96), for which she received her first Primetime
Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series in 1994. She
received her second Primetime Emmy Award and Golden Globe Award for
Best Actress â€" Television Series Drama for the leading role of Lily
Manning in the ABC drama series Once and Again (1999â€"2002). Ward
later had the recurring role of Stacy Warner in the Fox medical drama
House, also starred as Jo Danville in the CBS police procedural CSI:
NY (2010â€"2013) and starred as Dana Mosier in the CBS police
procedural series FBI (2018â€"2019).She also played supporting roles
in films, including The Man Who Loved Women (1983), Rustlers' Rhapsody
(1985), Nothing in Common (1986), Hello Again (1987), The Fugitive
(1993), My Fellow Americans (1996), The Day After Tomorrow (2004), The
Guardian (2006), The Stepfather (2009), and Gone Girl (2014).Ward was
born in Meridian, Mississippi, to Annie Kate (née Boswell), a
housewife, and Granberry Holland "G.H." Ward, Jr., an electrical
engineer. Her father is a native of Meridian while her mother was born
in Choctaw County, Alabama, before moving to Meridian as a child. Ward
is the eldest of four children with a sister, Jenna, and two brothers,
Joseph Brock and Granberry Holland Ward III. She graduated from Lamar
School in Meridian.
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