FAITH FORD (Julie Plummer) earned five Emmy® nominations and two consecutive Golden Globe® Award nominations for her ten-year portrayal of reporter ‘Corky Sherwood’ on the CBS series “Murphy Brown.”
Ford currently stars opposite Kelly Ripa in ABC’s “Hope & Faith.” Her other recent credits include the ABC Family Channel television feature “Moms on Strike,” starring opposite Tim Matheson, Florence Henderson and Spencer Breslin. Ford also starred for two seasons as Shelly Kilmartin, a probation officer who is the object of Norm Macdonald’s affection on the ABC series, “Norm.” Between “Murphy Brown” and “Norm,” Ford headlined her own series, “Maggie Winters,” for CBS.
In addition to her acting career, Ford made her writing debut this spring with an exciting new cookbook, Cooking With Faith. This multi-generational Southern cookbook draws on Ford’s childhood in Louisiana where she learned how to cook down-home food at the knees of her grandmother and mother.
Ford was raised in the quiet community of Pineville, Louisiana. In high school, she acted in school plays, and in her senior year, she was a finalist in Teen Magazine’s annual model search. Faith moved to New York City when she was 17 where she worked in commercials, took acting classes, and did some modeling. At 18, Ford landed a role on the soap “Another World.” After a year on the show, she decided to move to Los Angeles to further pursue her career as an actress.
Relocating to Los Angeles in 1985 and continuing her acting studies, she began acquiring prime time television credits. She was a regular on the series “Popcorn Kid” and a recurring character on “thirtysomething” before meeting “Murphy Brown” executive producer Diane English.
Faith also starred in Rob Reiner’s feature “North,” NBC’s sci-fi action thriller “Night Visitors,” and Lifetime Television’s “Her Desperate Choice.”
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