For example, when my mother died, the people who showed up just to put an apron on to cook, people who really do the right thing, so to speak, as my momma would always say to show that they care, a sense of community that we've lost so much in our country.

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).