I have a very strong mother. She entered me in the Teen Magazine model search when I was 16. I wasn't really that interested. Faith Ford
I love playing moms. It's a lot easier than being a mom, I hear. Faith Ford
I think comedy is one of the hardest things to do. Faith Ford
I wasn't the prom queen, in fact I didn't even go to my prom because they all turned me down. Of course you notice I had to ask them anyway. Faith Ford
I went back to my 10-year reunion. All they cared about is if I'd met Arnold Schwarzenegger yet or who were the big stars, you know. Faith Ford
It takes a lot of energy to work, in general, especially if you're the lead in something. Faith Ford
It's hard to work, in general, in our business, on more than one thing. How some actors go from back-to-back films, I don't know. Faith Ford
My first boyfriend in high school sort of broke up with me because I think I got braces, I don't know. He's an attorney now. His name was Herman Rando. I think he's in Dallas now. Faith Ford
My mother keeps me abreast of all the hometown things. Faith Ford
My theory is, if you can do comedy and you can be in a scene with someone like Brad Garrett and hold your own, you've really got a future in this business. Faith Ford
One thing I think kids need to do is more chores, and take care of their own rooms. Responsibilities are really important to start them with. If they have animals, they have to feed them and care for them. That's the only way I think I could do it. Faith Ford
The only thing that makes you see that Vin is a star is what he's like on film. I think he has amazing presence and he's smart. Faith Ford
To do my show, I'm always in every scene and it's very physical comedy, and even to motivate to want to work at all when I'm off is very challenging. Faith Ford
Usually when you're working is when people want you to work. They don't want you as much when you're not working. That's the frustrating nature of our business. Faith Ford
When I was in school, I was very involved with a lot of things. I was very very active. I couldn't say that I wasn't popular. I was a cheerleader when I was in junior high. I didn't make it in high school so I started a dance line. Faith Ford
When you're an actor and you get offered something, you should pay attention to it. Faith Ford
Faith Ford On-Screen
Actress, Faith Ford
Faith Ford has worked in a variety of tv/film/stage mediums since the beginning of her career at age seventeen. While living in NYC, her first roles were in commercials for Arid Extra Dry and Diet Pepsi. Soon she landed a recurring role on the Soap, "One Life To Live"...that of society teen-snob, Muffy Critchlowe.
Her first major role was to replace Kyra Sedgewick on the Soap, "Another World", where she maintained the character, "Julia Shearer", a young author. There she got to work with some amazing actors like Morgan Freeman, also a regular on "Another World".
Her first feature film, was for the low budget, "You Talkin' to Me" available in limited release on video.
Her move to the west coast at the age of 19 launched a series of acting roles, but one in particular changed her life forever. When auditioning for the part of Corky on the hugely successful CBS' sitcom, Murphy Brown...she was about to leave the room, when the lightbulb clicked on. "Would you like to know how Corky would dance?" Faith flashed a playful grin, and kicked her shoes off and danced right into the role of Corky and a list of Emmy nominations. She made people laugh, and that was what hooked Faith Ford forever in the profession of acting.
Faith Ford
A visit on Politically Incorrect
Faith Ford - ABC's Hope & Faith
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Faith Ford started her career when she became a finalist in Teen Magazine's model search. From there, she landed a regular role on the NBC daytime drama "Another World" (1984-85) before segueing to primetime with guest appearances on "Webster" and "Hardcastle and McCormick". The attractive blonde performer made her TV series debut in the little-seen "Popcorn Kid" (CBS, 1987) but scored the following year when she was cast as Corky Sherwood, the cloying, wholesome, flighty Miss America-cum-newscaster on CBS' long-running "Murphy Brown" (1988-98). Ford branched out into the occasional TV-movie, most effectively in a dramatic turn as a mother convinced that her ex-husband has molested her daughter who goes into hiding in "Her Desperate Choice" (Lifetime, 1996).
Within months of the demise of "Murphy Brown", the actress was back on CBS, headlining her own sitcom "Maggie Winters" (1998-99), about a woman who returns to her hometown after a failed marriage and a string of dead-end jobs. After stints in routine TV movies and an addition to the cast of Norm McDonald's "The Norm Show" (ABC, 1999-2001), Ford found another moderate sit-com hit when she co-starred with Kelly Ripa in the ABC sit-com "Hope & Faith" (2003- ), playing a woman whose normal family life is disrupted when she takes in her self-involved, out-of-work soap actress sister (Ripa). Ford's Disney connections also helped land her a supporting role in the Vin Diesel comedy "The Pacifier" (2005).
News Bulletin
With great sorrow, we say goodbye to Darren McGavin, 83 who passed away from natural causes in a Los Angeles hospital surrounded by his family on Feb. 25, 2006. We have lost many wonderful people I loved and learned from during my life on Murphy Brown. I am blessed to have worked with them as professionals and known them as friends. This is something about Darren (an actor who deserved many many awards!) that I was astonished to read in the Hollywood Reporter:
Despite his busy career in television, McGavin was awarded only one Emmy: in 1990 for an appearance as Candice Bergen's opinionated father on an episode of "Murphy Brown."
Goodbye Darren. The world and I will miss you. -- faith
Faith Ford as Muffy Critchlowe on "One Life to Live"
