Catherine Bell wikipedia biography

Catherine Bell wiki : Catherine Lisa Bell (born 14 August 1968) is an American actress, known for her roles as Major Sarah MacKenzie in the television series JAG from 1997 to 2005, Denise Sherwood in the series Army Wives from 2007 to 2013, and Cassandra "Cassie" Nightingale in Hallmark's The Good Witch films and television series since 2008.

Catherine Lisa Bell was born August 14, 1968 in London, England to a Scottish father Peter Bell and an Iranian mother Mina Ezzati. Her father Peter was an architect who signed a contract with the oil company in Iran, while Mina had emigrated to London to study nursing. Bell's parents divorced when she was two years old, and she was raised by her Iranian mother, grandmother and grandfather, with the family eventually moving to California's San Fernando Valley. Bell was exposed to diverse influences growing up. She and her family spoke Persian in their home. Her grandparents were Muslim, but she was also raised with Catholicism and attended a Baptist summer camp. In her teenage years, she came under the influence of her California surroundings, explaining, "I am definitely a Valley Girl. I was a tomboy. I liked to skateboard, play football, and push the envelope a little bit."

Bell enrolled at UCLA, where she considered a career in medicine or research. However, when she was offered a modeling job in Japan, where advertisers value "American beauty," she dropped out during her sophomore year.

Bell is fluent in Persian and English. She is fond of motorcycling, skiing, snowboarding and kick-boxing. Her hobbies include cross-stitching and making model cars, which she has done since age 8.

During the 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike, Bell took flying lessons in a Cirrus SR22.

Bell met actor-production assistant Adam Beason on the set of the 1992 film Death Becomes Her. They were married on May 8, 1994. They are the parents of daughter Gemma (b. 2003) and son Ronan (b. 2010).They lived in a nearly 5,700-square-foot faux-Tuscan-style mini-mansion in Calabasas, California.[19] The couple sold the house in 2010,and publicly confirmed that they had separated sometime before September 2011.

Since 2012, Bell has lived with fellow Scientologist, photographer and party planner Brooke Daniells in Los Angeles. In 2014, Bell paid $2.05 million for a recently remodeled, 3,380-square-foot, single-story ranch house on a 1.2 acre lot in the gated Hidden Hills community in the western suburbs of Los Angeles.