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Full Name: Sela Ward
Height: 5' 7 1/2"
Date of Birth: 11 July 1956
Place of Birth: Meridian, Mississippi, USA
At a Glance:
Sela is a 1977 graduate of the University of Alabama, an Art and Advertising major. In Tuscaloosa, Sela was a cheerleader, homecoming queen, and a member of the Chi Omega sorority. She also dated football hero and future Miami Dolphin legend Bob Baumhower while at the Capstone.
Sela's first job was as a public appearance spokes model for Pepsi in Memphis. Shortly thereafter she moved to New York - a city she'd fallen in love with during a basketball tournament in her cheering days - and worked at an advertising firm. Her first acting break was as one of the objects of the title in Burt Reynolds' 1983 film The Man Who Loved Women.
Sela won critical acclaim and a Cable Ace Award for her 1995 role as real-life anchorwoman Jessica Savitch in the Lifetime Network movie Almost Golden: The Jessica Savitch Story. She also appeared as Helen Kimble, the murdered wife in the Oscar-nominated Harrison Ford
starrier The Fugitive.
She developed and produced a documentary (The Changing Face of Beauty) about America's youth obsession and it's effect on women and has been very frank when confronted by and questioned on ageism. She's also won another Emmy and a Golden Globe playing a forty-plus divorced mother on Once and Again and is universally adored by men as the television spokesperson for Sprint's long distance service.
Sela is very serious about being a mom herself. She has two children: Austin Ward Sherman, born May 1994, and Anabella Raye Sherman, born May 1998. She regards the show's end as a blessing personally, freeing her from the arduous schedule of a one-hour drama that kept her from her family. Sela has written a memoir, Homesick, published in October 2002.
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