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

• 2023Candy Cane Lane — Lee
• 2023Moving On — Molly
• 2023Rachel Hendrix — Em Evans
• 2022Blonde — Jean
• DAVE — Debbie
• 9-1-1 — Detective Phelps
• Magnum P.I. — Georgia Preston
• 2017Halfway There — Jennifer Morgan
• Imposters — Cynthia Van Duzer
• Lucifer — Dr. Alice Porter
• Fear the Walking Dead — Melissa Geary
• Stitchers — Dr. Ellen Goodkin
• The Astronaut Wives Club — Beverly Davis
• The Player — Barbara Lee
• 2014Drew Peterson: Untouchable — Karen Chojnacki
• 2014Galyntine
• 2014Guilty at 17 — Melanie Scott
• How to Get Away with Murder — Ford
• 2013Finding Neighbors — Mary
• Ironside — Mrs. Rachel Watson
• Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. — General Hale
• Arrow — Alexa Van Owen
• Longmire
• Touch — Abigail Kelsey
• 2011Carjacked — Therapist
• Law & Order: LA — Sarah Witmer
• Castle — Beth Tanner
• 2009Duress — Jenny
• Lie to Me — Faye Sheridan
• 2009Natalee Holloway — Carol
• Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles — Agent Greta Simpson
• The Mentalist — Susan Darcy
• Chuck — Jane
• 2007The Bad Son — Ronnie McAdams
• Criminal Minds — Ellen Dent
• Grey's Anatomy — Cathy Rogerson
• Numb3rs — Naomi Vaughn
• The Closer — Melissa Disken
• 2005The Unseen — Ms. Lucille
• 2005Tides of War — Claire Trifoli
• 200321 Grams — Ana
• NCIS — Whitney Sharp
• 2002Auto Focus — Susan
• Taken — Sally Clarke
• The Shield — Danielle 'Danny' Sofer
• 2002Venomous — Susan Edmonton
• Without a Trace — Lindsay Bynum
• 2001Replicant — Angie
• 2001Someone Like You... — Alice, Jane's Sister
• The Lone Gunmen
• 2001The Majestic — Mabel
• CSI: Crime Scene Investigation — Kay Marquette / Irene
• The Invisible Man — Dr. Elizabeth Rendell
• Law & Order: Special Victims Unit — Deborah Latrell
• The Sopranos — Arlene Riley
• Third Watch — Doris Fontaine
• 1998Dangerous Proposition — Laura
• 1998Jaded — Lisa Heller
• L.A. Doctors — Alice Field
• Dharma & Greg — Cynthia
• Nash Bridges — Tara Browning
• The Pretender — Dr. Carla Goetz
• Chicago Hope — Tanya Anderson
• 1994Nobody's Fool — Charlotte Sullivan
• 1993A Girl's Guide to Sex — Tracy Pixel
• Frasier — Claudia Kynock
• The X-Files — June Gurwich
• Law & Order — Dena Carter
• Day One

Appearances as themselves (1)

• 2006The Shield: Wrap Day — Self