Catherine Bell

About Catherine Bell

Catherine Lisa Bell is fluent in Persian[Farsi] and English. She is fond of motorcycling, skiing, snowboarding and kickboxing. Her hobbies include cross-stitching and making model cars, which she has done since age eight years old.

Catherine Bell is an actress perhaps best known for her role on the television series JAG. She was born to an Iranian mother and an English father. Currently she stars in the Lifetime Television series Army Wives as Denise Sherwood.

One of Bell's first modeling jobs was an extended assignment in Japan. When she returned to California, she studied acting at the Beverly Hills Playhouse with Milton Katselas. She was a freelance masseuse whose clientele included singer, Peter Gabriel. She was on the game show, To Tell the Truth, in 1990, where she mentioned that she was a massage therapist. Her first television acting role was one line on the sitcom Sugar and Spice (1990).

In 1996, Bell began her role as Lieutenant Colonel Sarah MacKenzie of the United States Marine Corps Judge Advocate General's Office in the series JAG. She continued in this role until 2005.

Since 2007, Bell has starred in Lifetime's ensemble drama series Army Wives as Denise Sherwood, the wife of a U.S. Army lieutenant colonel, who endured domestic violence at the hands of her teenage son during the show's first season.

Bell also has recently played the main role in Hallmark's The Good Witch (2008), and its sequels The Good Witch's Garden (2009), The Good Witch's Gift (2010),The Good Witch's Family (2011), and The Good Witch's Charm (2012); she co-executive-produced all of the movies. She also starred in another Hallmark movie titled Last Man Standing.

On March 16, 1999, Catherine appeared at the premiere of EDtv, wearing a black top that became transparent in the flashlights of the photographers.

Bell has British and American Citizenship.

As of January 2024, she has amassed 312,000 followers on Instagram.