 faith ford (born september 14, 1964) is an american actress, known for her roles as corky sherwood in the cbs sitcom murphy brown and hope fairfield-shanowski on abc sitcom hope & faith. she was nominated for five primetime emmy awards for her role in murphy brown. ==early life== ford was born as alexis ford in alexandria, louisiana, the younger daughter of pat, a schoolteacher, and charles ford, an insurance agent. ford lived in nearby pineville and began acting while attending pineville high school. she moved to manhattan at the age of 17 and began to model and find commercial work. ==career==  in 1983, ford gained her first television role on abc's one life to live; her first major role was on the nbc soap opera another world, where she played julia shearer (a role previously played by kyra sedgwick) for several years. ford was let go by the producers and soon moved to hollywood, where she got a regular role on the short-lived sitcom, the popcorn kid, a five-episode appearance on thirtysomething and later her role on murphy brown. after a ten-year run, the series ended, and ford immediately pursued other tv endeavors. in 1998, she executive produced her own short-lived sitcom maggie winters. ford also appeared on the norm show with norm macdonald, laurie metcalf and artie lange from 1999 to 2001. ford starred with kelly ripa in hope & faith as hope shanowski, a homemaker who lives a peaceful life until her sister, an actress and hollywood star, moves to live with her and complicates her life in a variety of wild and surreal situations, where she managed a catering business; the sitcom lasted three seasons. the show was pulled from the abc lineup in may 2006 after a decline in ratings following a switch from fridays to tu
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