
Catherine Dent (born April 14, 1965) is an American actress who has starred in film and in television. Her first feature film was the 1994 movie Nobody's Fool. Dent was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, the daughter of Eleanor Brown and Fred C. Dent, a politician. She attended the North Carolina School of the Arts and graduated in 1993. Her big breakthrough role came in 2002 as L.A.P.D. Officer Danielle "Danny" Sofer on the FX hit drama The Shield. She has made guest appearances on some TV shows, such as on The Pretender, The X-Files, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, The Sopranos, Frasier, Judging Amy, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Without A Trace, and Grey's Anatomy. She is married and has one child.

Law & Order
TV • 1990

Grey's Anatomy
TV • 2005

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
TV • 1999

NCIS
TV • 2003

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
TV • 2000

Frasier
TV • 1993

The Mentalist
TV • 2008

Criminal Minds
TV • 2005

The X-Files
TV • 1993

Chuck
TV • 2007

Arrow
TV • 2012

Castle
TV • 2009

Lucifer
TV • 2016

9-1-1
TV • 2018

The Sopranos
TV • 1999

Without a Trace
TV • 2002

Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
TV • 2013

The Closer
TV • 2005