Catherine Bell
Biography
Catherine Bell is a British and American actress who won the role of Marine Corps lawyer Sarah MacKenzie on JAG and played her from 1997 to 2005. Born in London and raised in California's San Fernando Valley, she studied acting at the Beverly Hills Playhouse with Milton Katselas. Her first television part was a single line delivered in 1990, and she later worked as a body double for Isabella Rossellini on Death Becomes Her. She starred opposite Dolph Lundgren in Men of War (1994), then became Denise Sherwood on Army Wives from 2007 to 2013. From 2008 she headlined Hallmark's The Good Witch as Cassie Nightingale, in films including The Good Witch's Garden (2009), The Good Witch's Gift (2010) and The Good Witch's Family (2011), and served as a co-executive producer on those movies. Other credits include the Lifetime movie Last Man Standing (2011) and a return to her JAG role on NCIS: Los Angeles in 2019.
58years old
Turns 59 on August 14in 314 days
- Born London
- Star sign: LeoThe sign runs July 23 to August 22
- Catherine Lisa Bell (birth name)
Movie Career
- Films
- 17
- Career span
- 30 years1994 to 2024
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A change of course
Bell enrolled at UCLA and thought about medicine or research, but she left during her second year after being offered a modeling job in Japan, where advertisers value "American beauty".
Big break
In 1995 Bell got a three-line role in an episode of the NBC series JAG. NBC canceled the show, CBS picked it up and restructured it with a female Marine Corps lawyer, Sarah MacKenzie, and Bell won that part.
First role
One of Bell's first parts was as the body double for Isabella Rossellini in the 1992 film Death Becomes Her.
Behind the camera
Bell was Cassie Nightingale, the lead in Hallmark's The Good Witch (2008) and its sequels, and she also served as a co-executive producer on all of the movies.
Catherine Bell movies on Netflix
Best known for
The films on Netflix they are best known for, with the part played in each.
Most often with
Craig Pryce directed five of these films, Martin Wood two and Gail Harvey two. Five actors appear in five of them each. Pick a number on the chart or a name in the list to see the films they share.
Films together
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Catherine Disher's page
Hannah Endicott-Douglas's page
Noah Cappe's page
Peter MacNeill's page
Craig PryceDirector, 5 films, 2008 to 2012
All films by Craig Pryce
Martin WoodDirector, 2 films, 2017 to 2018
All films by Martin Wood
Gail HarveyDirector, 2 films, 2023 to 2024
All films by Gail Harvey
Also four films together1 more actor
- Paul MillerThe Good Witch's Family (2011), The Good Witch's Gift (2010), The Good Witch's Garden (2009) and The Good Witch (2008)
When several people share the same number of films, the ones with the most films on Netflix are in the chart.
Online
Official profiles and reference pages.