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Catherine Dent

Born 1965-04-14
📍 Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA

Catherine Dent (born April 14, 1965) is an American actress who has starred in film and in television. Her first feature film was the 1994 movie Nobody's Fool. Dent was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, the daughter of Eleanor Brown and Fred C. Dent, a politician. She attended the North Carolina School of the Arts and graduated in 1993.

Her big breakthrough role came in 2002 as L.A.P.D. Officer Danielle "Danny" Sofer on the FX hit drama The Shield. She has made guest appearances on some TV shows, such as on The Pretender, The X-Files, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, The Sopranos, Frasier, Judging Amy, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Without A Trace, and Grey's Anatomy. She is married and has one child.

Filmography 68

Candy Cane Lane
as Lee
2023
Rachel Hendrix
as Em Evans
2023
Moving On
as Molly
2023
Blonde
as Jean
2022
DAVE
as Debbie
2020
Magnum P.I.
as Georgia Preston
2018
9-1-1
as Detective Phelps
2018
Halfway There
as Jennifer Morgan
2017
Imposters
as Cynthia Van Duzer
2017
Lucifer
as Dr. Alice Porter
2016
The Player
as Barbara Lee
2015
Fear the Walking Dead
as Melissa Geary
2015
The Astronaut Wives Club
as Beverly Davis
2015
Stitchers
as Dr. Ellen Goodkin
2015
How to Get Away with Murder
as Ford
2014
Guilty at 17
as Melanie Scott
2014
Drew Peterson: Untouchable
as Karen Chojnacki
2014
Finding Neighbors
as Mary
2013
Ironside
as Mrs. Rachel Watson
2013
Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
as General Hale
2013
Arrow
as Alexa Van Owen
2012
Longmire
2012
Touch
as Abigail Kelsey
2012
Carjacked
as Therapist
2011
Law & Order: LA
as Sarah Witmer
2010
Duress
as Jenny
2009
Natalee Holloway
as Carol
2009
Castle
as Beth Tanner
2009
Lie to Me
as Faye Sheridan
2009
The Shield: Family Meeting
as Self
2008
The Mentalist
as Susan Darcy
2008
Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
as Agent Greta Simpson
2008
Chuck
as Jane
2007
The Bad Son
as Ronnie McAdams
2007
The Unseen
as Ms. Lucille
2005
Criminal Minds
as Ellen Dent
2005
The Closer
as Melissa Disken
2005
Tides of War
as Claire Trifoli
2005
Grey's Anatomy
as Cathy Rogerson
2005
Numb3rs
as Naomi Vaughn
2005
NCIS
as Whitney Sharp
2003
21 Grams
as Ana
2003
Taken
as Sally Clarke
2002
Auto Focus
as Susan
2002
Without a Trace
as Lindsay Bynum
2002
The Shield
as Danielle 'Danny' Sofer
2002
Venomous
as Susan Edmonton
2002
The Majestic
as Mabel
2001
Replicant
as Angie
2001
Someone Like You...
as Alice, Jane's Sister
2001
The Lone Gunmen
2001
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
as Kay Marquette / Irene
2000
The Invisible Man
as Dr. Elizabeth Rendell
2000
Third Watch
as Doris Fontaine
1999
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
as Deborah Latrell
1999
The Sopranos
as Arlene Riley
1999
L.A. Doctors
as Alice Field
1998
Jaded
as Lisa Heller
1998
Dangerous Proposition
as Laura
1998
Dharma & Greg
as Cynthia
1997
The Pretender
as Dr. Carla Goetz
1996
Nash Bridges
as Tara Browning
1996
Nobody's Fool
as Charlotte Sullivan
1994
Chicago Hope
as Tanya Anderson
1994
Frasier
as Claudia Kynock
1993
The X-Files
as June Gurwich
1993
A Girl's Guide to Sex
as Tracy Pixel
1993
Law & Order
as Dena Carter
1990