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Bell is the daughter of a Scottish
father and Iranian mother. Her parents divorced, and then she and her
mother moved to Los Angeles, California when she was three years old. She
became a naturalized citizen of the United States at the age of 12. She
acted in various television advertisements as a child. She attended the
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) with an interest in becoming
either a biomedical engineer or a physician but dropped out to become a
full-time model. One of her first modeling jobs was an extended assignment
in Japan.
Her first appearance in a film was as a body double for Isabella
Rossellini in Death Becomes Her (1992). In 2003, Bell played a supporting
role in the comedy Bruce Almighty, which starred Jim Carrey. From 1997 to
2005, she played U.S. Marine Corps Lt. Col. Sarah MacKenzie on the
television series JAG, as a practicing attorney in the U.S. Navy's Judge
Advocate General's Corps of legal experts.
Bell is fluent in Persian (Farsi) and English.
Bell married Adam Beason on 8 May, 1994. They have a daughter, Gemma, who
was born on 16 April, 2003.
Bell is a survivor of thyroid cancer. She had to have her thyroid gland
removed from her neck in her 20s. She has a small surgical scar on her
neck. At one time, she used to have a message board on her website but
this has been removed citing the inability to constantly monitor it. While
the message board was running, Ms. Bell noted that she has had thyroid
surgery and LASIK done in the past.
On September 14, 2006, Reuters/Hollywood Reporter announced that Catherine
Bell had joined the cast of Lifetime's ensemble drama pilot "Army Wives".
In the projected series, Sally Pressman stars as a sassy woman from the
wrong side of the tracks who marries a soldier, moves her kids to a
military base and becomes friends with a diverse group of Army wives,
three of them played by Catherine Bell, Kim Delaney, and Brigid Brannagh.
Bell will play the wife of a US Army major, a devoted homemaker who is
enduring physical abuse at the hands of her teenage son. In December,
Lifetime announced it would produce 13 episodes of the series for 2007.
Bell has also acted in the Sci-Fi Channel miniseries, The Triangle,
presented in December 2005, where she played the role of an ocean
engineer.
In 2006, she was nominated in Saturn Award of Academy of Science Fiction,
Fantasy & Horror Films for Best Supporting Actress on Television |
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"Army Wives" (2007) TV Series
.... Denise Sherwood
"Law & Order: Special Victims Unit" .... Naomi Cheales (1 episode,
2006)
... aka Law & Order: SVU (USA: promotional abbreviation)
... aka Special Victims Unit (New Zealand: English title)
- Choreographed (2006) TV Episode .... Naomi Cheales
"Threshold" .... Dr. Daphne Larson (1 episode, 2006)
- Outbreak (2006) TV Episode .... Dr. Daphne Larson
Still Small Voices (2006) (TV) .... Michael Summer
Company Town (2006) (TV) .... Maggie Shaunessy
Sci Fi Inside: 'The Triangle' (2005) (TV) .... Emily Patterson
"The Triangle" (2005) (mini) TV Series .... Emily Patterson
"JAG" .... Lt. Col. Sarah 'Mac' MacKenzie / ... (183 episodes,
1996-2005)
- Fair Winds and Following Seas (2005) TV Episode .... Lt. Col.
Sarah 'Mac' MacKenzie
- Dream Team (2005) TV Episode .... Lt. Col. Sarah 'Mac' MacKenzie
- Unknown Soldier (2005) TV Episode .... Lt. Col. Sarah 'Mac'
MacKenzie
- Two Towns (2005) TV Episode .... Lt. Col. Sarah 'Mac' MacKenzie
- San Diego (2005) TV Episode .... Lt. Col. Sarah 'Mac' MacKenzie
(178 more)
Babak & Friends: A First Norooz (2005) (V) .... Layla (English)
"Waking the Dead" .... Sam James (1 episode, 2003)
- Final Cut (2003) TV Episode .... Sam James
Bruce Almighty (2003) .... Susan Ortega
The Time Shifters (1999) (TV) .... Elizabeth Wintern
... aka Thrill Seekers (USA)
Cab to Canada (1998) (TV) .... Sandy
Black Thunder (1998/II) .... Lisa
"Sin City Spectacular" (2 episodes)
... aka Penn & Teller's Sin City Spectacular (USA)
- Episode #1.10 (????) TV Episode
- Episode #1.16 (????) TV Episode
Crash Dive (1997) (V) .... Lt. Cmdr. Lisa Stark
... aka Crash Dive: The Chase Is On
"Hercules: The Legendary Journeys" .... Cynea (1 episode, 1997)
- The Lady and the Dragon (1997) TV Episode .... Cynea
"Hot Line" .... Cat (1 episode, 1996)
- The Brunch Club (1996) TV Episode .... Cat
Hotline Volume 3 (1996) (V)
"The Naked Truth" (1 episode, 1995)
... aka Wilde Again
- Comet Nails Star and Vice Versa! (1995) TV Episode
"Friends" .... Robin (1 episode, 1995)
- The One with the Baby on the Bus (1995) TV Episode .... Robin
Alien Nation: Body and Soul (1995) (TV) .... Cop
"Vanishing Son" .... Kelly / ... (2 episodes, 1995)
- Long Ago and Far Away (1995) TV Episode .... Rachel
- Miracle Under 34th Street (1995) TV Episode .... Kelly
Men of War (1994) .... Grace Lashield
... aka Hombres de acero (Spain)
"Dream On" .... Kay Meadows (1 episode, 1994)
- Those Who Can't, Edit (1994) TV Episode .... Kay Meadows
Mother of the Bride (1993) (TV) .... Chastity |
