Catherine Bell is a beautiful, talented, sexy and classy Hollywood actress who has blazed up both small and big screen many times. She has a matchless beauty, grace and style. Major Sarah of "Mac" MacKenzie on CBS's military court drama "JAG" has recently made the TV show enter the Top 20 Nielsen list as one of the most watched shows in North America. She is constantly raising the number of her fans. Catherine Bell is of British and Iranian descent and she speaks Farsi fluently.
Childhood
Catherine was born in London, England, on 14th August 1968. Father was an Architect in London and mother was employed as a Nurse. Catherine bell’s family was small with only three members. Bell and her mother (after getting divorced from her husband) migrated to US when she was three years old. Till the age of 12 Catherine Bell considered herself a British citizen. She stayed in Los Angeles along with her mother at her grandparent’s home. Catherine Bell looked like a Tomboy during her early school days but began emerging as natural feminine by the time she came into grade 11.
Catherine became a student of UCLA. She attended the University of California at Los Angeles for two years. During her study in the university, she started part-time modeling at the same place. She was into the work of TV advertisements and catalogues. Eventually, she left for Japan in connection of a modeling assignment and lived there for four months.
Career and Achievements
Catherine bell wanted to be an artist and she had appeared in some commercials as a child. But she happened to be at UCLA to study medicine in order to become a surgeon or a biomedical engineer. However, as a part of change in plan she started modeling while in college on part time basis. She had to stop her study for several months to do a modeling assignment in Japan. Despite modeling at such a level her instinct was accusing her of holding back due to shyness.
That was the time she decided to come into acting and hired a coach to help her get over her shyness. Thereafter she was madly in love with acting profession. Everyone including her parents backed her up to pursue acting. Catherine had to undergo many auditions over a few years to get the break she deserved. Catherine began with appearing as guest star on television shows like Dream On in 1994, Dream On in 1994, Hotline in 1996, Hercules: The Legendary Journeys in 1997, and a role in 1998s Sin City Spectacular.
It was the role of Lt. Col. Sarah “Mac” MacKenzie on JAG that came as leading breakthrough in her acting career. Though Catherine appeared in a very few episodes of the serial she impressed the creator and executive producer so much that she got the lead role in 1997.
Catherine got several film roles also. Isabella Rossellini's body double in 1992's Death Becomes Her; 1994's Men of War; 1996's Crash Dive; 1997's Black Thunder; the made-for-TV-movies Mother of the Bride and Alien Nation: Body and Soul. She also appeared in Hollywood Squares, Cab to Canada and The Time Shifters
