American actress

Sela Ward

Sela Ann Ward is an American actress. Her breakthrough TV role was as Teddy Reed in the NBC drama series Sisters (1991–96), 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 – Television Series Drama for the leading role of Lily Manning in the ABC drama series Once and Again (1999–2002). 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 (2010–13) and starred as Dana Mosier in the CBS police procedural series FBI (2018–19).

Born

1956

July 11

Died

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1950s

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Key dates

1956 Born

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What else happened on this day, through history

813 Byzantine emperor Michael I, under threat by conspiracies, abdicates in favor of his general Leo the Armenian, and becomes a monk (under the name Athanasius).
911 Signing of the Treaty of Saint-Clair-sur-Epte between Charles the Simple and Rollo of Normandy.
1174 Baldwin IV, 13, becomes King of Jerusalem, with Raymond III, Count of Tripoli as regent and William of Tyre as chancellor.
1302 Battle of the Golden Spurs (Guldensporenslag in Dutch): A coalition around the Flemish cities defeats the king of France's royal army.

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The world in 1956

When Sela arrived

april 19 Actress Grace Kelly marries Prince Rainier of Monaco.
april 26 SS Ideal X, the world's first successful container ship, leaves Port Newark, New Jersey, for Houston, Texas.
april 3 Hudsonville–Standale tornado: The western half of the Lower Peninsula of Michigan is struck by a deadly F5 tornado.
april 30 Former Vice President and Democratic Senator Alben Barkley dies during a speech in Virginia.

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Same-year contemporaries

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Aldo Nova 1956– Canadian singer-songwriter and musician Andreas Floer 1956–1991 German mathematician and academic (died 1991) Angelika Machinek 1956–2006 German glider pilot (died 2006) Ashoke Sen 1956– Indian theoretical physicist and string theorist Bernard Sumner 1956– English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer Bernie Wagenblast 1956– transportation journalist, founder of Transportation Communications Newsletter Bill Emmott 1956– English journalist and author Bob Saget 1956–2022 American comedian, actor, and television host (born 1956) Carrie Fisher 1956–2016 American actress, screenwriter, author, producer, and speaker (born 1956)

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