Catherine Dent
Catherine Grace Dent is an American actress. She is best known for the role of Danielle "Danny" Sofer in the FX series The Shield.
Early life and career
Dent was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, the daughter of Eleanor Brown and Fred C. Dent, a politician. She attended St. Joseph's Academy high school and graduated in 1993 from the North Carolina School of the Arts.Dent began starring in film and television in the early 1990s. Her first feature film was the movie Nobody's Fool. On television she played Janice Talbert in One Life to Live, and well as made guest appearances on such shows as The Pretender, The X-Files, The Invisible Man, ', The Sopranos, Frasier, Judging Amy, ', Without a Trace, Grey's Anatomy, NCIS, The Mentalist, and Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
Her big breakthrough role came in 2002, as L.A.P.D. Officer Danielle "Danni" Sofer on FX's hit drama The Shield. On film, she appeared in Replicant, The Majestic, and 21 Grams.
Personal life
Dent married attorney Peter Eliasberg on March 23, 2002. They have one child.Filmography
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 1991 | Dallas | Reporter No. 1 | "Fathers and Sons and Fathers and Sons" |
| 1995 | New York Undercover | Shirley | "Downtown Girl" |
| 1996 | High Incident | "Shake, Rattle & Roll" | |
| 1997 | Crisis Center | Laura | "Someone to Watch Over Me" |
| 1997 | One Life to Live | Janice Talbert | 2 episodes |
| 1998 | The Pretender | Dr. Carla Goetz | "Crazy" |
| 1998 | Frasier | Claudia Kynock | "The Seal Who Came to Dinner" |
| 1998 | Chicago Hope | Tanya Anderson | "Gun with the Wind" |
| 1999 | L.A. Doctors | Alice Field | "Denial" |
| 1999 | The X-Files | June Gurwich | "Trevor" |
| 1999 | ' | Deborah Latrell | "Or Just Look Like One" |
| 1999 | Third Watch | Doris Fontaine | "Hell Is What You Make of It" |
| 1999 | Dharma & Greg | Cynthia | "Looking for the Goodbars" |
| 1999 | Nash Bridges | Tara Browning | "Rip Off" |
| 2000 | The Sopranos | Arlene Riley | "Do Not Resuscitate" |
| 2001 | The Invisible Man | Dr. Elizabeth Rendell | "Money for Nothing: Part 2" "Brother's Keeper" |
| 2001 | The Lone Gunmen | Carol Strode | "The Lying Game" |
| 2002–2008 | The Shield | Sergeant Danielle "Danny" Sofer | Main role; 88 episodes |
| 2002 | Taken | Sally Clarke | "Beyond the Sky" "Jacob and Jesse" "Maintenance" |
| 2005 | ' | Kay Marquette / Irene | "Who Shot Sherlock" |
| 2005 | Judging Amy | Connie Barrett | "You Don't Know Me" |
| 2006 | Law & Order | Dena Carter | "Deadlock" |
| 2007 | Grey's Anatomy | Cathy Rogerson | "My Favorite Mistake" |
| 2007 | Numb3rs | Naomi Vaughn | "The Janus List" |
| 2007 | Without a Trace | Lindsay Bynum | "One Wrong Move" |
| 2008 | ' | Agent Greta Simpson | "The Turk" "Heavy Metal" "What He Beheld" |
| 2009 | Criminal Minds | Ellen Daniels | "Pleasure Is My Business" |
| 2010 | Ghost Whisperer | Laura Bradley | "Lethal Combination" |
| 2010 | The Closer | Melissa Disken | "Help Wanted" |
| 2010 | Lie to Me | Faye Sheridan | "Pied Piper" |
| 2010 | ' | Defense Attorney | "Harbor City" |
| 2010 | NCIS | Whitney Sharp | "Enemies Foreign" "Enemies Domestic" |
| 2011 | Breakout Kings | Paula Berry | "Off the Beaten Path" |
| 2011–2012 | The Mentalist | FBI Agent Susan Darcy | Recurring role; 6 episodes |
| 2011 | Chuck | Jane | "Chuck Versus the Business Trip" |
| 2012 | Touch | Abigail Kelsey | "Noosphere Rising" "Tessellations" "Gyre, Part 1" "Gyre, Part 2" |
| 2012 | Leverage | Ellen Casey | "The Long Goodbye Job" |
| 2013 | Castle | Beth Tanner | "The Human Factor" |
| 2014 | Rake | Judge Dupre | "A Close Shave"" |
| 2015 | The Player | Barbara Lee | "A House Is Not A Home" |
| 2016–present | Outcast | Janet Anderson | |
| 2017–2018 | Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. | General Hale | Recurring |
| 2018 | Arrow | Alexa Van Owen | Episode: "Docket No. 11-19-41-73" |