Susan Ward (born Michelle Ward on 15 April 1976 in Monroe, Louisiana)
is an American actress and model.
She started modeling at the age of 13, leaving school and moving to
New York to do so, deciding to try her hand at acting several years
later. After a few years of small TV jobs, she landed her first main
role as the heroine on Aaron Spelling's daytime soap opera Sunset
Beach, where she played the virginal heroine Meg Cummings.
In 1999, wanting to pursue a movie career, she had a radical image
makeover, both of her physical image (including breast implants and
other cosmestic surgery) and of her personality as portrayed in the
press (from a "good girl" image to a wild child persona based on
provocative interviews). Ward's first movie was in 2000, in the erotic
thriller The In Crowd, in which she went fully nude and performed sex
scenes including lesbian oral sex. The movie flopped in theaters but,
not surprisingly, had some success on cable and home video.
The following year, Ward played a small role in the hit movie Shallow
Hal. She has also acted in three other straight-to-video and
made-for-cable movies, and has guest starred in four TV series, most
notable Friends.
Ward is married to David C. Robinson, the Vice President of Morgan
Creek Studios, the movie studio that made The In Crowd. They met when
he cast her in the movie in 1999 and wed on June 4, 2005. Her
gynecologist Dr. D.H. Clark performed the ceremony.