Catherine Dent

Dent was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. She attended high school at St. Joseph's Academy and later studied at the North Carolina School of the Arts.[2]

Dent began starring in film and television in the early 1990s. Her first feature film was the movie Nobody's Fool (1994).[3] On television she played Janice Talbert in One Life to Live, and made guest appearances on such shows as The Pretender, The X-Files, The Lone Gunmen, The Invisible Man, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, The Sopranos, Frasier, Judging Amy, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Without a Trace, Grey's Anatomy, NCIS, The Mentalist.[4][5][6]

Her breakthrough role came in 2002, as LAPD Officer Danielle "Danni" Sofer on FX's hit drama The Shield.[4][7] On film, she appeared in Replicant (2001), The Majestic (2001), and 21 Grams (2003).[1][7] In 2002 she starred in Taken as Sally Clarke, the Emmy-winning miniseries first aired on the Sci-Fi Channel.

Between 2005 and 2014 Dent appeared in several movies including The Unseen, The Bad Son, Natalee Holloway, Duress, Finding Neighbors, and Guilty at 17.

From 2017-2018, Dent guest starred as General Hale in Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.[8] In February 2020, it was announced that Dent would play Jessica Wolcott in NBC's new show La Brea,[9][10] though the role was ultimately played by Ione Skye.[11] In 2021, she was a guest on Lucifer playing Dr. Alice Porter.[12]

Dent married attorney Peter Eliasberg on March 23, 2002.[1] They have one child.[13]

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