Name	Sela Ward
Height	5' 7½
Naionality	American
Date of Birth	11 July 1956,
Place of Birth	Meridian, Mississippi, USA
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Sela is the oldest of four children. Her parents were an electrical engineer and homemaker in Meridian, Mississppi. Her name is a word from biblical Hebrew that has no English meaning but is often translated as "amen," "praise God" or simply "so may it be." She studied art and advertising at the University of Alabama, where she also was a cheerleader and was elected homecoming queen. She moved to New York to do storyboards for an advertising agency, but soon was tapped to be a model. Soon got commercials and decided to move to L.A. to seek a break in films, which she got only two weeks after arriving when she was selected to appear opposite Burt Reynolds in The Man Who Loved Women (1983).