Catherine
Bell (born August 14, 1968 in London, England) is an American
actress known for her role of Lt. Colonel Sarah MacKenzie of the
television show JAG from 1995 to 2005. Recently she has starred
in the Lifetime Television hit series Army Wives as Denise Sherwood.
Catherine Bell is the daughter of an Iranian
mother and a Scottish father. 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. When she returned to California, she studied acting at the Beverly
Hills Playhouse with Milton Katselas. Her first television acting role
was one line on the sitcom "Sugar and Spice" (1990).
Catherine Bell made her
first appearance in a film as a partially nude 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. She reprised that role in a cameo in the 2007 sequel,
Evan Almighty. From 1997 to 2005, Bell 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.
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's character is named Denise
Sherwood.
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 (The Triangle).
Bell was the grand marshal of the NASCAR
Nextel Cup Series race at Dover International Speedway on June
3, 2007.
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Anna Paquin
Actress
It was in New Zealand in 1991 that
Anna Paquin became an actress by chance. Director Jane
Campion was looking for a little girl to play a key role
in The Piano, set to film in New Zealand, and a newspaper
advertisement was run announcing an open audition.
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Claire
Danes Movie Actress
When she is not working, Claire Danes likes
spending time on her school studies, especially the humanities and science.
She tries to keep up her interest in dance, and wants to continue with
her new enthusiasm for surfing while she's living in Los Angeles.
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Cobie
Smulders Television Actress
As a child Cobie Smulders wanted to be either a doctor or a marine biologist
but started to gain an interest in acting in high school, appearing in
several school productions. Discovered by a modelling agency in her teens,
she started to model internationally, including in locations such as Paris,
Japan, Milan, Greece, and Germany.
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Courtney
Thorne Smith TV Actress
Courtney Thorne Smith first appeared as Stacy Hamilton on Fast Times, the
television series spin-off of the successful teen movie Fast Times at Ridgemont
High.
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Jennifer
Aniston Movie and Television Actress
In 2000, after a widely publicized
battle with NBC, Aniston and her fellow cast members negotiated
a salary of $750,000 per episode. The show won its first
Emmy for its 8th season in 2002. That same year, Aniston
received a Best Actress Emmy for her role as Rachel. Jennifer
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Eva Mendes
Model and Actress
Eve Mendes attended California State
University, Northridge and majored in marketing. Her debut
in acting came because she needed a little extra spending
money and appeared as an extra on various films. One day
she caught the eye of an agent who convinced her to pursue
acting more steadily. Eva
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Movie
Actress Keira Knightley
She was born in Teddington, south-west
London. Her name would become Keira as her Hollywood career
took off, the change shamelessly breaking the golden rule
of "I before E except after C" but making the
name more easily pronounceable on a worldwide basis. Keira
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