Profile: Susan Ward
Born: April 15, 1976, Monroe, Louisana, USA
Occupation: Actress
Height: 5' 4"
Education: River Oaks High School in Monroe (1994); attended Northeast Louisiana University in Monroe for a semester (psychology)
Quote: “I was out with a few friends one night and this guy just walked up to me and ran his hand up my leg! I asked him just what he thought he was doing, and he told me my legs were like buttermilk pancakes. I’m still trying to figure that one out!”
Susan Ward Biography
When Susan Ward was just a toddler, she followed the local veterinarian on his rounds and brought every stray animal she found to the private menagerie she and her parents called home. As a teenager, she had every intention of becoming a vet, until a modeling agent spotted her in a mall at the age of 13. Ward and her mom were convinced to travel to New York to investigate modeling opportunities. Ward saw it as the perfect way to finance her veterinary training and therefore was immediately enthused. Little did she know that the weeklong mother/daughter adventure in the Big Apple would lead to a contract with the prestigious Ford modeling agency.
"What just happened here?" Her mother asked as they left the agency, and then cried all the way back to their hometown of Monroe, La., over her daughter's good fortune. Over the next several years, Ward traveled back and forth between New York and Monroe as she built a solid modeling career and subsequently completed high school and several college courses.
After appearing in numerous public service announcements for the Northeast Louisiana Alcohol and Drug Abuse Association, she began taking acting lessons and soon thereafter embarked on a full-fledged acting career. She captured a small role on the popular daytime drama "All My Children" and a year later returned to the show as a recurring player. In June of 1995, she auditioned for a part on the NBC prime-time series from Aaron Spelling, "Malibu Shores." More than six months later, she was asked to fly to Los Angeles to test for the role. "I had completely forgotten about it," Ward recalls. It was at the test that she was first introduced to Aaron Spelling, a meeting which she describes as "very overwhelming": "I was very nervous at first, but he is one of the nicest men I've ever met and put me totally at ease." Needless to say, she got the role.
Ward feels a kinship to her "Sunset Beach" character, Meg, who leaves her longtime boyfriend at the altar in Kansas and travels across the country in search of a man she's never met: "She follows her heart -- she wants to find out what the world has to offer. Finding this man is the first thing she has ever been passionate about."
Ward is single and lives in Los Angeles. As a child, she raced the BMX bicycle circuit in Louisiana but now settles for a more relaxing mode of transportation: rollerblading. She still has a love for animals and the outdoors but also enjoys the company of a good book, especially classics and murder mysteries.
Susan Ward Filmography
Cruel World (2005) (V)--Ashley
Wild Things 2 (2004) (V)--Brittney Havers
Would I Lie to You? (2002)--Olivia
Shallow Hal (2001)--Jill
Going Greek (2001)--Wendy
The In Crowd (2000)--Brittany Foster
Poison Ivy: The New Seduction (1997)--Sandy
Sunset Beach (1997) TV Series--Meg Cummings
Malibu Shores (1996) TV Series--Bree
All My Children TV Series--Camille (1994-1995)
Swans Crossing (1992) TV Series--Girl at Soda Shop
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