
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.

Blonde
2022 · as Jean

Candy Cane Lane
2023 · as Lee

21 Grams
2003 · as Ana

Someone Like You...
2001 · as Alice, Jane's Sister

The Majestic
2001 · as Mabel

Replicant
2001 · as Angie

Nobody's Fool
1994 · as Charlotte Sullivan

Halfway There
2017 · as Jennifer Morgan

Jaded
1998 · as Lisa Heller

Auto Focus
2002 · as Susan

The Shield: Family Meeting
2008 · as Self

Moving On
2023 · as Molly

Carjacked
2011 · as Therapist

Rachel Hendrix
2023 · as Em Evans

Drew Peterson: Untouchable
2014 · as Karen Chojnacki

Tides of War
2005 · as Claire Trifoli

Galyntine
2014

Guilty at 17
2014 · as Melanie Scott