And so I was doing that and starving and somebody said you should model and I ran when they told me how much money you could make and I did a television commercial the first job.

Golden Globe Award Best Actress in a TV Series Drama Once and Again 2001. This pattern persisted until Sela Ward aggressively pursued and won the role of the bohemian alcoholic Teddy Reed on Sisters for which Sela Ward received her first Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series in 1994. followed in the same year.

In 2010 Sela Ward joined the CBS drama CSI: NY as a series regular playing Jo Danville. Sela Ann Ward (born July 11 1956) is an American movie and television actress perhaps best known for her television roles as Teddy Reed on the American TV series Sisters (1991–96) and as Lily Manning on Once and Again (1999–2002).