She played Corky Sherwood on the CBS sitcom Murphy Brown, receiving five Primetime Emmy Award nominations.

[7] After the producers let her go, Ford moved to Hollywood, where she got a regular role on the short-lived sitcom The Popcorn Kid.

She then had a five-episode appearance on thirtysomething, played a homeless woman on Family Ties, and joined Murphy Brown.

[3] In the Disney film released in early 2005, The Pacifier, Ford played the mother of a family whose husband had died.

On February 26, 2018, it was announced that Ford would return to a revival of Murphy Brown with costars Candice Bergen, Joe Regalbuto, and Grant Shaud.