Sela Ward Net Worth 2026: $50M to $100M Fortune Explained

Sela Ward‘s net worth is estimated at $50 million to $100 million as of October 2026. The spread is the story: one camp of estimators, including several celebrity-finance sites, puts the two-time Emmy winner at about $50 million, while Celebrity Net Worth puts her at $100 million — and both sides are really pricing the same career, a four-decade run of hit television dramas, plus one of the most profitable celebrity property flips of the 2010s. Ward and her husband, private-equity investor Howard Sherman, bought their Bel Air estate for $3.8 million in 2003 and sold it to Jennifer Lopez for $28 million in 2016, a headline price $24.2 million above what they paid before costs and taxes. Add a SoHo loft bought for $4.2 million and listed at $5.795 million, a Miami condo bought for $4 million and sold for $6.3 million, and a television résumé that runs from Sisters to CSI: NY to FBI, and the range starts to make sense.

Early Life and Background

Sela Ann Ward was born on July 11, 1956, in Meridian, Mississippi, a railroad town in the state’s eastern hill country, about 90 miles east of Jackson. Her father, Granberry Holland Ward Jr., was an electrical engineer; her mother, Annie Kate Boswell Ward, kept house. Sela was the eldest of four children, with three younger siblings, and the family’s roots in the Meridian area ran six generations deep. The house she grew up in sat in the Lakemont neighborhood, and in later interviews she described long outdoor days, a close-knit Southern childhood, and a father whose name itself carried a piece of local history — Granberry Ward was named for the man who ran the orphanage where his own grandmother had been raised. That detail would come back, decades later, in the most personal project of Ward’s life.

Meridian in the 1960s and 1970s was not a place that produced many television stars, and nothing in Ward’s early years pointed directly at Hollywood. She attended Lamar School, a small private school in Meridian where her graduating class numbered only about 35 students. She was a popular, visible student — active, social, and already tall and striking — but her ambitions at that stage were closer to art and design than to acting. The through-line of her childhood, as she later wrote in her memoir Homesick, was home itself: a sense of place so strong that it eventually pulled her back to Mississippi even at the height of her television fame, and shaped the charity she built there. She has spoken about her mother with candor in interviews about the book, describing a strong woman in a marriage she could not leave, in an era when divorce still carried shame. That frankness became a signature of Ward’s public voice: direct, unsentimental, and uninterested in polishing the past.

One more early detail matters for understanding the money story that follows. Ward grew up in a household that was comfortable but not wealthy, and her first working years in New York were spent earning, not spending. Modeling paid the rent while she took acting classes, and advertising work used the degree she had actually trained for. The financial pattern of her adult life — steady professional income, invested in property rather than burned on lifestyle — was set early, before fame arrived.

Education

Ward enrolled at the University of Alabama, where she double-majored in fine art and advertising and graduated in 1977. Campus life suited her: she was homecoming queen, a cheerleader, and a member of the Chi Omega sorority. The fine-art training is easy to overlook in a net-worth profile, but it explains two threads of her later life that had nothing to do with acting. First, she is a serious painter, a pursuit she has returned to in every gap between acting jobs, including the long stretch after FBI ended in 2019. Second, her eye for design shows up in the property record — the Bel Air house she and Sherman rebuilt with reclaimed Mississippi and Louisiana wood, antique French doors and stone, and the SoHo loft whose 19th-century bones they preserved through a year-long renovation. She did not simply buy houses; she remade them, and the resale prices reflect that work.

After graduation, Ward moved to New York, a decision she later described in the plainest possible terms: the city spoke to her. She worked in advertising — storyboard art was part of that early grind — and, on a friend’s suggestion that she was tall and good-looking enough to model, signed with the Wilhelmina Agency. Modeling brought commercials, including work for Maybelline cosmetics, and a living wage while she studied acting. It also brought her first lesson in how the entertainment business prices a face: modeling paid by the day, acting paid by the episode, and the gap between those two economies would define her earning life. She has said she never dreamed of becoming an actress as a girl; modeling was a way to supplement her income that turned, gradually and then decisively, into a career.

Career Journey

Ward’s screen debut came in 1983, in Blake Edwards’s comedy The Man Who Loved Women, playing Janet Wainwright opposite Burt Reynolds. The same year she landed her first television series, Emerald Point N.A.S., a CBS military soap in which she played Hilary Adams for 22 episodes across the 1983–84 season. The show did not last, but the pattern of her career was already visible: television, not film, would be her home, and she was better in long-form character work than in one-off guest spots. Through the rest of the 1980s she built a film résumé of supporting roles — Rustlers’ Rhapsody (1985), Nothing in Common (1986) with Tom Hanks and Jackie Gleason, Hello Again (1987) — while waiting for a television role with real weight. A guest appearance here and there kept her working, but nothing yet suggested the decade of dominance that was coming.

The 1990s changed the arithmetic. In 1991, NBC cast Ward as Teddy Reed in Sisters, a drama about four sisters in Winnetka, Illinois, and she stayed with the show for six seasons and 127 episodes, through 1996. Teddy — a bohemian, alcoholic fashion designer, funny and self-destructive in equal measure — was the kind of role that makes a career rather than fills one, and it earned Ward her first Primetime Emmy Award in 1994. Film work continued alongside it, most memorably as Helen Kimble, the murdered wife of Harrison Ford’s Dr. Richard Kimble, in The Fugitive (1993), a film that grossed more than $370 million worldwide and holds a 96 percent critics’ score on Rotten Tomatoes. Her screen time in The Fugitive was short — the character is dead before the story starts — but the film’s scale meant that a supporting role in it carried more industry weight than a lead in a small picture, and it kept her visible to film casting directors through the decade. She followed it with My Fellow Americans (1996), 54 (1998) and Runaway Bride (1999).

After Sisters ended, Ward did something unusual for an actress coming off a hit: she waited for a role as good as the last one. She found it in Once and Again, ABC’s drama about two divorced parents falling in love, in which she played Lily Manning for 63 episodes from 1999 to 2002. The show was a critical darling rather than a ratings monster, and it won her the second Emmy of her career plus a Golden Globe for Best Actress in a Television Drama. In the same period she played Jessica Savitch in the television movie Almost Golden (1995), hosted the Lifetime documentary The Changing Face of Beauty (2000) — a project born from her own experience of being told, at 38, that she was too old to play a Bond girl — and published her memoir. The documentary episode is worth pausing on, because it explains Ward’s later career choices: she has said the Bond rejection changed how she thought about Hollywood’s treatment of age, and she spent the rest of her career choosing authority roles — lawyers, investigators, a president — over roles that asked her to be decorative.

The 2000s and 2010s were a run of exactly those authority roles. She played Dr. Lucy Hall in The Day After Tomorrow (2004), the Roland Emmerich disaster film; took the recurring role of Stacy Warner, hospital attorney and former partner of Dr. Gregory House, on Fox’s House in 2005–06; starred opposite Kevin Costner in The Guardian (2006); and played the mother in the thriller The Stepfather (2009). In July 2010 she signed for CSI: NY, replacing Melina Kanakaredes as Jo Danville, an experienced investigator with a complicated past, and stayed through the show’s ninth and final season in 2013 — 57 episodes in all. Film returns followed: Sharon Schieber, the television newswoman in David Fincher’s Gone Girl (2014), and President Elizabeth Lanford in Independence Day: Resurgence (2016), reuniting her with Emmerich. She then headlined the Epix political comedy Graves (2016–17) as Margaret Graves, wife of a former president played by Nick Nolte, for 20 episodes, guested as Juliet on Westworld in 2018, and closed the decade with FBI.

FBI deserves its own paragraph, because it is the role fans still ask about. Ward joined Dick Wolf’s CBS procedural in 2018, stepping in after Connie Nielsen departed following the pilot, and played Special Agent in Charge Dana Mosier — a former profiler and the team’s steady authority figure — for 22 episodes of season one. In the season finale, “Closure,” Mosier let Agent Maggie Bell stay on a case tied to her husband’s death, then told Jubal Valentine she was resigning, concluding that she had let feeling override judgment for the first time in her career. Off screen, the exit was simpler and had been planned from the start: Ward had signed a one-year deal, and it was not renewed. She thanked the cast and crew publicly, and there was no reported falling-out. She later described procedural work with a racehorse metaphor — five gallops out of the gate and then stuck, when she was ready to fly around the track — and said one reason she took the job was that it gave her a reason to be in New York, a city she has wanted to live in since her twenties. After FBI, she stepped back from series television for seven years.

The hiatus ended, at least briefly, in February 2026. Reports in July 2026, including a Women.com profile citing her return, described Ward guesting on ABC’s The Rookie as the mother of Tim Bradford, played by Eric Winter, with the episode airing February 23, 2026. The casting was announced in mid-February 2026 and generated immediate attention precisely because she had been away so long. Whether the appearance becomes a recurring role remains unconfirmed in reliable reporting; for net-worth purposes, its significance is modest but real — a working actress in her seventies, still getting the call, still commanding guest-star terms, rather than living off residuals alone.

Rise to Fame

Ward’s rise was slow by modern standards and durable for exactly that reason. She was 35 when Sisters premiered — an age at which many actresses of her generation were already being pushed toward mother roles and out of leads. Teddy Reed reversed that trajectory: an Emmy at 37, a six-season hit, and a reputation as the rare television actress who could carry a drama’s emotional center without softening its edges. The second Emmy, for Once and Again, did something rarer still. Two lead-actress Emmys for two different series, a decade apart, put her in a small group of performers whose awards record alone guarantees residual and syndication income for life, and whose name on a cast list still signals quality to networks. That reputation is the asset that kept paying: CSI: NY hired her at 54 to steady a veteran procedural, and FBI hired her at 62 to lend instant authority to a brand-new one.

Film fame, for Ward, was always secondary and always supporting — and that is a useful corrective to profiles that credit her fortune to movies. Her biggest films used her briefly: a murdered wife, a newswoman, a president. What those roles bought was not a film-star salary but range on the résumé, which is what television producers pay for. The fame that actually converted to money was television fame, measured in episodes: 127 of Sisters, 63 of Once and Again, 57 of CSI: NY, 22 of FBI, 20 of Graves. Syndication and streaming keep those episodes earning. Sisters and Once and Again remain in circulation decades after airing, and the procedural tail — CSI: NY and FBI reruns and streaming licenses — is the longest-earning part of any television actor’s catalogue.

The other half of her public profile, and the half competitors routinely underplay, is Mississippi. Ward never relocated her identity to Los Angeles. She married a Californian, lived in Bel Air, and still built her defining off-screen project in Meridian, visited her farm there several times a year, and wrote a memoir whose title — Homesick — is the thesis. That dual identity, Hollywood professional and Mississippi daughter, is why her property portfolio spans both worlds, and why her philanthropy, unlike many celebrity charities, is a physical campus with beds in it rather than a foundation name on a letterhead.

Main Sources of Income

Ward’s income breaks into four streams, and their proportions have shifted sharply across her life. The first and largest, historically, is television acting: lead salaries on two long-running dramas, a three-season procedural run, a season of FBI, and a season-plus of Graves, plus residuals from all of them. The second is film: supporting roles in major studio pictures, which pay less per job than a television lead but arrive with backend and residual tails of their own, especially for a film like The Fugitive that never leaves circulation. The third is publishing: Homesick: A Memoir (2002), published by HarperCollins’s ReganBooks imprint, became a New York Times bestseller according to her FBI biography, and continues to sell in paperback and digital editions. The fourth, and the one that most changes the shape of her wealth, is property — not rental income, but a small number of large, well-timed sales, detailed below.

Two smaller streams round out the picture. Early modeling and commercial work — Wilhelmina, Maybelline — mattered in her twenties but is a rounding error in a lifetime total. Painting, her lifelong second art, has produced exhibitions and sales in her later years, though no reliable figure exists for that income and this article does not estimate one. What Ward notably lacks, compared with many actresses of her generation, is a product empire: no beauty line, no fashion label, no tequila brand. Her wealth is old-fashioned by celebrity standards — wages, royalties, and houses — which makes it easier to trace and harder to exaggerate.

Salary and Earnings

Here is the honest gap in the record, and it is one this article will not paper over: no reputable outlet has published Ward’s per-episode salary for any of her series. Profiles that state a salary figure for her are guessing, and the better-known estimators say so themselves — one notes plainly that specific contract details for her television and film roles are not publicly available. That absence is itself informative. Ward’s peak earning years, the 1990s and 2000s, predate the modern era of leaked television salaries, and she was never the tabloid subject that stars of her stature sometimes become. What can be said with sourcing is narrower, but it still frames her earning power.

First, the market context. When Ward joined CSI: NY in 2010, Deadline reported that her predecessor Melina Kanakaredes had been earning in the range of $200,000 per episode, and that the renewal deal on the table would have meant a pay cut. That figure is Kanakaredes’s, not Ward’s, and Ward’s own deal was struck in a different negotiation — but it establishes the pay band for a female lead on a hit CBS procedural at the moment Ward entered one. A lead actress of Ward’s standing, with two Emmys, would not plausibly have been hired far below the established rate for the chair she was filling. Over 57 episodes, even a rate in that general band implies eight-figure gross earnings from CSI: NY alone, before residuals, taxes, agents’ commission and management fees. This is arithmetic about the market, not a claim about her contract, and it is labeled as such.

Second, the shape of a television star’s pay over a long career. Lead salaries in the 1990s, when Sisters and Once and Again aired, were lower in nominal terms than the procedural rates of the 2010s, but they ran for far more episodes — 127 and 63 respectively — and they carried the residual structures of the pre-streaming era, which were generous for network drama. A reasonable way to think about Ward’s lifetime television earnings is therefore as a large but not astronomical sum: tens of millions gross across four decades, reduced by the roughly 20–25 percent that agents, managers and lawyers typically take combined, and by taxes, before a dollar of it ever reached a property purchase. That is consistent with, not proof of, the $50 million end of the published range. The $100 million end requires the property gains, detailed below, to be counted at something close to their headline values — which is exactly why the two estimates diverge.

Third, the film side. Supporting roles in studio films pay in the low-to-mid six figures for most working actresses of Ward’s tier, with occasional seven-figure fees for prestige parts; no source has published her fee for The Fugitive, Gone Girl or Independence Day: Resurgence, and this article does not assign her one. What film did for her financially was steadier than a single paycheck: each major credit raised her television asking price, and each hit film extended the residual tail. The 2014–16 run of Gone Girl and Resurgence is a good example — two high-grossing pictures in three years, both in supporting roles, both keeping her price current for the Graves and FBI negotiations that followed.

Businesses and Investments

Ward has never run a consumer business, and that restraint is itself a financial fact. Her investment record, as far as public reporting shows, is concentrated in two places: property, and her husband’s investment career, which she benefits from as a spouse but which is not her own business. Howard Sherman is the founder and chief executive of Inventure Holdings, a Beverly Hills-based private-equity and venture-capital firm he has led since 2003, and he ran for the United States Senate in Mississippi in 2018, losing in the Democratic primary runoff. Celebrity Net Worth makes a point that matters here and that sloppy profiles blur: its $100 million figure is attributed to Ward herself, and it notes that the couple’s combined marital assets are worth much more than that. In other words, even the highest published figure for Ward excludes a large part of the household balance sheet. Readers who see larger numbers attached to her name elsewhere are usually, knowingly or not, counting her husband’s money as hers.

Within that frame, Ward’s own most consequential business decision was the founding of Hope Village for Children — not a profit-making venture, but an investment of time, money and reputation that she has sustained for more than two decades. The story starts in 1997, on a holiday trip home to Mississippi, when Ward and Sherman toured an emergency shelter in Meridian and met two young brothers in the foster system. What struck her was that siblings were routinely separated when they entered care. She decided to fund and build an alternative: a permanent group home and emergency shelter, with transition houses, on a single campus where brothers and sisters could stay together. Hope Village for Children opened in Meridian in January 2002 on a 30-acre property that had once been a Masonic orphanage, with a capacity of 44 residents and, as of 2015, an average of about 300 children served per year. The foundation behind it was formed in late 2001. The campus includes an emergency shelter for children from birth to 18, cottages for longer-term group living, and transitional housing — and its founding rule, the one Ward refused to compromise on through the licensing process, was that siblings would not be split up. In 2018 she was inducted into the Mississippi Arts and Entertainment Experience Hall of Fame, an honor that recognized both halves of that life.

Beyond Hope Village, Ward’s public investments are her art and her authorship. Homesick (2002) is a memoir of a Mississippi childhood, a Hollywood career, and a marriage, and its status as a New York Times bestseller gave her a second income stream that most television actresses never develop. Painting, the discipline she trained in at Alabama, has become her main creative outlet in the years since FBI: she has described herself in recent profiles as a working painter first and an actress between jobs, and her 2026 return to television was framed in those same profiles as a guest appearance by an artist who had not stopped working, only stopped chasing series.

Brand Deals and Sponsorships

Ward’s endorsement record is thin by design, and that thinness is worth stating plainly because most net-worth profiles inflate it. Her documented commercial work is early: modeling for Wilhelmina in New York, including Maybelline cosmetics commercials, before her acting career took hold. There is no verified record of a major modern endorsement deal — no beauty contract, no fashion ambassadorship, no paid partnership of the kind that pads many celebrity fortunes — and this article does not invent one. In the 2010s and 2020s she lent her name to causes rather than products, above all Hope Village, and to occasional beauty commentary on social media, such as a 2020 post praising a skincare book, which was personal enthusiasm rather than a disclosed paid deal.

The absence matters for the estimate. An actress with a $100 million fortune built on endorsements would look very different from Ward: her money, on the documented record, came from wages and houses. That also means her fortune is less exposed to the boom-and-bust cycle of brand deals. When she stopped doing series television after 2019, no endorsement income vanished with it, because there was little to vanish. The income that continued was residuals, royalties, and the afterglow of property sales already banked.

Houses, Cars and Other Assets

The property record is where Ward’s finances become concrete, because houses leave paper trails that salaries do not. Three transactions, all documented in trade or newspaper reporting, anchor the story.

Bel Air, Los Angeles — bought 2003 for $3.8 million, sold 2016 for $28 million. The estate at 1492 Stone Canyon Road was a French-country house built in 1940 to a design by architect Samuel Marx, set on roughly eight acres minutes from the Hotel Bel-Air. Ward and Sherman bought it in 2003 and rebuilt it thoroughly, using reclaimed wood from Mississippi and Louisiana, antique French doors and stone. The finished house measured about 14,000 square feet, with nine bedrooms and 13 bathrooms, plus a guest house, a pavilion with an outdoor kitchen, and a private lake with its own sandy beach. They listed it in 2015 at $39 million. In 2016, Jennifer Lopez bought it for $28 million. The headline arithmetic — $28 million against a $3.8 million purchase price — is a $24.2 million gross difference, before renovation costs, carrying costs over 13 years, commissions and taxes, none of which are public. Even discounted heavily for those costs, it is a very large gain, and it is the single transaction that makes the $100 million estimate plausible. Lopez herself later sold the same estate in October 2023 for about $34 million, after listing it at $42.5 million — a coda that confirms the property’s enduring value but belongs to Lopez’s ledger, not Ward’s.

SoHo, New York — bought 2016 for $4.2 million, listed 2021 at $5.795 million. The loft at 16 Crosby Street was a three-bedroom co-op in an 1877 factory building converted to 12 co-ops in 1980. Ward and Sherman bought it in 2016 as a pied-à-terre — their main residence at the time was in Mississippi, according to the New York Times reporting cited when it was listed — and spent a year renovating it, preserving 14-foot tin ceilings, exposed brick walls and cast-iron columns while adding a glass mezzanine and contemporary finishes. The home spans more than 3,000 square feet including the mezzanine, with three storage rooms and a 340-square-foot downstairs storage space. They listed it in February 2021 at $5,795,000, saying they wanted a larger apartment closer to Central Park for visits from their children. The asking price sat $1.595 million above the 2016 purchase price, before renovation and transaction costs. No closing price is reliably reported in the sources reviewed, so this article records the list price as a list price, not a sale.

Miami — bought 2020 for $4 million, sold 2022 for $6.3 million. The condo was unit 2902 at One Thousand Museum, 1000 Biscayne Boulevard, in the 62-story tower designed by Zaha Hadid and completed in 2019. The 4,600-square-foot unit had four bedrooms, five full bathrooms and one half bathroom, and sold, according to The Real Deal’s reporting of public records, for $6.3 million — $1,377 per square foot — to David D’Alessandro. The sellers were Ward and Sherman, both individually and as trustees of the Sherman Ward Family Trust. Against a $4 million purchase price in 2020, the headline difference is $2.3 million before costs. Together, the three transactions show a consistent method: buy well, renovate with taste, hold for years, sell into strength. It is the method of a serious property investor, not a celebrity flipping houses for publicity.

The family also keeps a Mississippi base that rarely appears in sale listings because it is not for sale. Honeysuckle Farms, their retreat outside Meridian, covers about 500 acres, and its first building, Rose Cottage, sits at the center of the property, with Ward’s parents and an uncle buried on the hill behind it. The family spends summers and holidays there, and it is the place Ward meant when she said she wanted her children to have a life that was authentic rather than built on striving for material things. No reliable valuation exists for the farm, and this article does not guess one. As for cars, no verified collection exists in public reporting, and this article does not pad the section with one: Ward’s asset story is houses, full stop.

Awards and Achievements

Ward’s awards shelf is short and heavy. She won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series in 1994 for Sisters, and won it again in 2000 for Once and Again — two wins in the same category for two different shows, a feat that places her among the most decorated dramatic television actresses of her generation. The second role also won her the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Television Series – Drama in 2001. She collected further nominations around both wins, including a Golden Globe nomination for Sisters, and CableACE recognition earlier in her career. In 2018, Mississippi honored the other half of her life with induction into the Mississippi Arts and Entertainment Experience Hall of Fame.

Awards convert to money indirectly, and the mechanism is worth naming. Each Emmy raised her asking price for the next negotiation, and the pair of them together made her a safe hire for networks launching or steadying expensive dramas — the reason CSI: NY and FBI both turned to her. The Golden Globe added international syndication value to Once and Again. None of that is a paycheck figure, but it is the reason a career of supporting film roles and television leads adds up to eight or nine figures rather than seven.

Net Worth Growth Over the Years

The table below tracks published estimates, not audited wealth. Because estimators rarely date-stamp their figures, the years mark when a figure was in circulation, and the note column says what was happening in Ward’s financial life at the time. The honest summary is that her published figure has been stable for a decade — the same two numbers, $50 million and $100 million, recur — which suggests estimators are recycling each other rather than re-measuring her. The real growth events are the property sales, which are dated and documented.

How does Ward compare with peers who built similar careers? The table below compares career facts, not invented net worths, for actresses whose television longevity resembles hers. The point is structural: long-running drama leads with awards and procedural second acts are the profile most likely to convert fame into durable wealth, because their income arrives in hundreds of episodes rather than a handful of film fees.

Ward’s profile sits between the single-franchise marathoners and the pure character actresses: two separate signature dramas, two Emmys, and a property portfolio that did much of the compounding her acting income started. That combination — not any single salary — is the best explanation for a fortune that published estimators cannot agree on but cannot push below $50 million either.

Social Media Presence

Ward keeps a public Instagram presence and has used it in recent years to share painting, family moments and career news — including a promotional clip for her 2026 The Rookie appearance. She is not a high-volume poster, and she has never built the kind of follower business that turns social media into a revenue line: no verified follower counts are cited here because they change weekly and add nothing to a net-worth estimate, and no paid-partnership income is attributed to her accounts. Her social presence functions as a noticeboard for a working artist in her seventies, not as a shop window. Fans looking for her will find her under her own name; impersonator accounts exist, as they do for every actress of her generation, and the verified account is the only one worth following.

Personal Life

Ward married entrepreneur Howard Elliott Sherman on May 23, 1992, after meeting him on a blind date during the final season of Sisters. She has said she felt safe with him because he was centered and confident, and that within a month of marrying they began looking for property in Meridian — the seed of Honeysuckle Farms. They have two children: Austin, a Los Angeles-based producer, songwriter and artist, and Anabella, a Brown University graduate with acting in her blood. Both children have now left home, a fact Ward herself has noted in recent profiles as the reason she told her manager, in her own words, “I don’t think I’m done” — the remark that preceded her 2026 television return.

The marriage has lasted more than three decades in an industry where that is rare, and it has survived a public political campaign: Sherman, a venture capitalist, ran for the United States Senate from Mississippi in 2018 and lost in the Democratic primary runoff. Ward’s own public life has stayed closer to home and to Hope Village, where she remains the founder most associated with the campus. She has spoken openly about aging in Hollywood — the Bond-girl rejection at 38, the documentary she made about beauty standards, her exercise routine of daily cardio and workouts three times a week as described in a 2019 magazine profile — with a frankness that has become part of her appeal. She is, by every recent profile, a painter who acts, a Mississippian who lives between coasts, and a television star whose most valuable asset may be the reputation for steadiness that got her hired, decade after decade, to hold a show together.

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