Actress Faith Alexis Ford was born on September 14, 1964 in Alexandria, Louisiana. While in high school, she began taking small acting assignments, and at age 17, she moved to New York to pursue a modeling career, and find more acting opportunities. She took her first television role in the daytime soap One Life to Live, and later in Another World, taking over the role of Julia Shearer from Kyra Sedgwick.
When producers of Another World let her go, she moved to Los Angeles to look for more projects. After several guest roles on television, she took a regular role in the short-lived sitcom The Popcorn Kid. Following a five-episode run in Thirtysomething, she joined the cast of Murphy Brown, playing scatterbrained former Miss America Corky Sherwood. She played the role until the series ended in 1998, during which she played the lead in the short-lived sitcom Maggie Winters, which she was also executive producer.
Ford then starred in the sitcom The Norm Show, which premiered in 1999; she was part of the cast throughout its three-season run. This was followed by another, arguably more successful sitcom, Hope & Faith, where she played one of the leads alongside Kelly Ripa. She played the role of Hope Shanowski, a caterer who is the more sensible sister, usually reluctant to work with her sister Faith (Ripa) and her schemes. The series lasted three years, and was eventually cancelled after a change of schedule resulted in lower ratings.
Most recently, in 2007, Ford starred in yet another sitcom, Carpoolers, starring opposite Jerry O’Connell. She played the role of Leila Brooker, the sensible wife of Gracen Brooker (Fred Goss) and self-proclaimed resl estate “flipper.” It was not renewed for a second season, after the end of the writers’ strike, but the possibility of a return wasn’t eliminated.