Catherine (Lisa) Bell was born on August 14th, 1968 in London. She moved when she was three years old in Los Angeles with her mother who is named Mina; this one is Iranian. It’s for this reason that Catherine usually speaks about Farsi, a Persian language. In 12 years old Catherine is naturalized American.
She went to the famous faculty of Los Angeles; the UCLA where she was good in math and in biology and intended to become a doctor or an engineer biochemist. But Catherine had the opportunity to become a model and thus left to Japan to exercise this very difficult profession. Indeed, after two years of this unfortunate life Catherine is brought in in the USA. Catherine then old of 20 learn that she is affected by a cancer of Thyroyde. She decides to fight against the disease to be so able to realize her dreams. She goes out grows of this event and she refuses to remove the scar on her neck to not forget that she lived.
Catherine has took acting courses and went out by the Scientology. She gets married to Adam Beason (today scriptwriter but assitant director in this time) in 1994 which she meets on the shooting of her first film in 1992, when she played only the Isabella Roselini's " body " (Death Becomes Her) .Next time, Catherine had small roles on the television; we can see her in Hercule, Dream On, Friends... The real success in which Catherine holds an important role is JAG. She embodies from the second season the character clean of the Major warrant officer Sarah Mackenzie become then Colonel. Her first appearance in the series was during the first season where it embodied Diane Schonke, a friend of Lieutenant Harmon Rabb, which is murdered. Catherine was so appreciated and beating (she passed 4 times the casting! Being refused has every time she writes a letter to Bellisario where she explains him that it is SHE he must to take!) that she was choosed held for the new feminine character from the second season. She has too held by the roles more or less important in some films and television films: Alien Nation: Body and soul, Cab to Canada, Black Tunder, Hot Line, Crash Drive: The Chase Is On, Nuclear Alert, Men of War, Time Shifters, Bruce Almighty, The Good Witch... After stop JAG, Catherine is still very present in the world of the cinema and the television; she enchaine the public appearances and the roles as by examples in Threshold (which was cancelled), The Triangle, Compagny Town (to the highly-rated of Sherry Stringfield (Doctor Susan Lewis in E.R)), Law and Order SVU...
She is going to begin the shooting of the fourth season of "Army Wives" where she embodies with talent Denise Sherwood.