Catherine Bell Biography:

Bell is the daughter of a Scottish father and Iranian mother. Her parents divorced and she and her mother relocated to Los Angeles, California when she was four years old. Bell became a naturalized citizen of the United States at age thirteen. She worked in an assortment of television advertisements as a young girl. She attended the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) with a curiosity in biomedical engineering and becoming a Doctor, but left to start a modeling career. Bell's first modeling job was a long term project in Japan.

Catherine Bell's first arrival in a movie was as a body double for Isabella Rossellini in "Death Becomes Her" in 1992 where she enjoyed working alongside super star talent like Meryl Streep and Bruce Willis In 2003, Bell was hired for a supporting role in the comedy film "Bruce Almighty", which starred Jim Carrey, Morgan Freeman and Jennifer Aniston. Up until April 29, 2005, Bell also portrayed Marine Lt. Colonel Sarah McKenzie on the television series and military lawyer show "JAG".

Bell is fluent in Farsi (Persian) and English.

Bell married Adam Beason 1994 and they have a daughter, Gemma, who was born in 2003.

Bell is a survivor of thyroid cancer and had to have her thyroid removed in her 20s. She has a surgical scar on her neck.

During September 2006, Reuters and Hollywood Reporter wrote that Catherine Bell had been hired for the cast of Lifetime's ensemble drama pilot "Army Wives". In the show, Sally Pressman stars as a playful woman from the wrong part of town who marries a soldier, relocates her children to a military base and becomes friends with a assorted group of Army wives, played by Bell, Kim Delaney and Brigid Brannagh.

In a departure from the stubborn Lt. Col. Sarah Mackenzie she played on "JAG," on "Army Wives" Bell played the wife of a Major, a dedicated homemaker who is suffering from physical and mental abuse at the hands of her teenage son.

She used her exposure and the show's conventional recognition, especially with military supporters and wives, into an assortment of magazine covers and parts in television movies, eventually grabbing her leading role as the focus of Jim Carrey's desire in the comedy "Bruce Almighty" (2003). 

Scientology & Dianetics and Christine Bell:

Bell has been associated with Scientology, Dianetics and L. Ron Hubbard since 1990 and has achieved the position the Church calls "The State Of Clear". Bell has been involved with Scientology for quite some time, as have some of her fellow celebrity friends Tom Cruise, John Travolta and Kirstie Alley. 

Bell has supported Scientology's Hollywood Education and Literacy Project. In December 2005, Bell assisted in the promotion the grand opening of Scientology's controversial "Psychiatry: An Industry of Death", which tells of a possible conspiracy theory linking Adolf Hitler to the psychiatric profession.

In February 2006, Bell appeared in a Scientology music video called "United". Fox News reporter Roger Friedman said of the video, "Bell and other celebrities such as Jenna Elfman and Isaac Hayes were all sort of nodding in a trance and clapping".