i'd like to point out that she's sultry and pent-up in "after dark, my sweet" (released 3 years after "the good wife"); funny and exasperated in "how to get ahead in advertising"; tragic in "the thorn birds"; and a femme fatale in "dead men don't wear plaid."
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001829/
think these were her best performances, and that she never became the star it seemed like she would become.
"the good wife" is certainly a good one, though.
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I don't like to be negative about people, but this question would not be asked if Ward was 5 feet tall and weighed 200 pounds. The fact is she was a model who turned to acting and would NOT have gotten parts in those early years based on her acting talent rather than her looks.
To her credit she became a competent actor, but the intervening years of motherhood and mediocre performances meant that she was never going to be a 'star'.
There are probably 1000s of actors out there that never even got a start in the profession because they didn't 'look' right, and this is especially true for young women, so to infer that Ward somehow 'missed out' on opportunity shows an inversion of concern, because she probably did better than talent alone justified.
Again, I don't want to sound mean, Ms Ward comes across as a lovely person, but I'm sure even she would concede that she has been lucky.