: Catherine Bell Bell as Emily Paterson in The TriangleBirth nameCatherine Lisa Bell Born August 14 1968 (age 39) London, England Height 5 ft 10 in (178 cm) Official site http://www.
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Catherine Lisa Bell (born August 14, 1968 in London) is a British-born American actress who was the co-star of the hit television show JAG from 1997 to 2005.
Biography
Bell is the daughter of a Scottish father and Iranian mother. ["Catherine Bell", NNDB, Soylent Communications. Retrieved on 2006-06-08.]
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 at Los Angeles (UCLA) with an interest in becoming a 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.
 Bell as Lt. Col. Sarah McKenzie, USMC JAG on JAG, CBS 1995-2005 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 Major Sarah MacKenzie on the television series JAG, as a practicing attorney in the U.S. Navy's Judge Advocate General Corps of legal experts.
Catherine is fluent in Farsi (Persian) and English.
Catherine married Adam Beason on 8 May, 1994.["Catherine Bell Biography", Amazing Catherine. Retrieved on 2006-06-08.]
They have a daughter, Gemma Beason, who was born on 16 April, 2003.
Catherine 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.
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. In a departure from the dedicated, with-it, Major Sarah Mackenzie she portrayed on CBS' "JAG," on "Army Wives" Catherine 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.
Catherine 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)
Scientology
Bell has been affiliated with Scientology/Dianetics since 1990 and has achieved what they call "the state of Clear". [Wachter, Kristi. "Catherine Bell - Scientology Service Completions", The Truth About Scientology. Retrieved on 2006-06-08.]
She has supported Scientology's Hollywood Education and Literacy Project [Bell, Catherine. "Giving Back: This Month", Catherine Bell's Official Website. Retrieved on 2006-06-08.]
In December 2005, Bell helped promote the gala opening of Scientology's controversial "Psychiatry: An Industry of Death" Museum, which puts forth a conspiracy theory connecting Adolf Hitler to the psychiatric profession.[Gumbel, Andrew. "Scientology vs. Science", Los Angeles CityBeat, Southland Publishing, 2006-01-12. Retrieved on 2006-06-08.]
In February 2006, Bell appeared in a Scientology music video called "United". Fox News reporter Roger Friedman said of the video, Bell and other celebrities such as Jenna Elfman and Isaac Hayes were "all sort of nodding in a trance and clapping".[Friedman, Roger. "Now Pitching for Scientology: Katie Holmes", Fox News, 2006-02-03. Retrieved on 2006-06-08.]
Filmography
Actress
Self
Archive Footage
- 1998: JAG" Episode #3.19 - Death Watch as Lt. Diane Schonke
Quotes
- "This huge life-changing moment of going from zero to ninety in two seconds!" (Catherine on her reaction to getting a lead role on JAG)
- "Almost every Marine I've met says I portray a Marine dead-on, which is really, really flattering."
["Catherine Bell Quotes", Brainy Quotes. Retrieved on 2006-06-08.]
- "Women in the military thank me for portraying a character who's feminine and attractive and sexual and yet still strong and intelligent and in the military. I think people have this perception that to be strong and a military woman you have to look a certain way or not be feminine."
- "I don't mind nudity when it's done tasteful and not just gratuitous T and A. They showed my butt! It was fine, though. I think the female body is beautiful." [1]
- "I love beer. There's nothing like having an ice-cold beer. Wine is good, too. My wild partying days of college are behind me, I think. Now if I get wild I seem to remember everything in the morning. It can be scary. For sure." [2]
Trivia
- Vital statistics: 34D-24-35 (inches), 86-61-88 (cm)
- FHM 100 Sexiest Women in the World -- 2003 (#81), 2004 (#47), & 2005 (#100)
- FHM U.S.'s 100 Sexiest Women -- 2001 (#84), 2002 (#38), 2003(#22) & 2004 (#20)
- Named #75 on the Maxim magazine "Hot 100 of 2005" list.
- Was featured in a layout in the July 2000 Australian edition of FHM magazine.
- Was featured in a layout in a 2002 USA edition of FHM magazine.
- Was featuren in an edition of Maxim magaizine in the USA.
- Has a surgical scar running across the lower part of her neck
- Has a tattoo of a heart on her right ankle with the word "love" in the middle of it
- Her hobbies include cross-stitching and making model cars since about the age of 8.
[Betsy Model. "Ma'am Yes Ma'am!", Orange Coast: The Magazine of Orange County, p. 32-37.]
- Studied acting at The Beverly Hills Playhouse with Milton Katselas.
- Before the 2001 NFL season began, in a survey of 70 celebrities who had nothing to do with football conducted by The Sporting News, she correctly predicted that the New England Patriots would eventually beat the St. Louis Rams in Super Bowl XXXVI by the score of 20-17. This amazing prediction was made despite the fact that the vast majority of "football experts" didn't think the Patriots would even make the playoffs. As a result, Bell is the only person to have ever correctly predicted the participants in, winner of, and the final score of a Super Bowl before a season began, whose prediction appeared in a published article in a major sports periodical or book.
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