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Catherine Bell
Born:
Catherine Lisa Bell
August 14, 1968,
London, England, UK
Height:
5'10"
Husband:
Adam Beason (1994 - present)
Education:
Dropped out of UCLA. Wanted to be either a surgeon or a biomedical
engineer.
Piercings/Tattoos:
Pierced navel. Heart tattoo on her ankle.
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Catherine Lisa Bell was born August
14, 1968, in London, England. Of British and Iranian descent (Catherine
speaks fluent Farsi), a 3-year-old Catherine relocated to Los Angeles
with her family.
While attending UCLA to study medicine,
with the intention of becoming a surgeon or a biomedical engineer,
Catherine began modeling, hired an acting coach to help with her
shyness, and fell in love with acting.
Diagnosed with thyroid cancer at age
21, Bell remembers the frightening medical news as a positive wake-up
call. Since the removal of her thyroid, she says her health is her
number one priority.
Catherine started her acting career
with guest appearances on television shows and played Isabella Rossellini's
body double in 1992's Death Becomes Her before landing her
breakthrough role of Lt. Col. Sarah "Mac" MacKenzie on JAG.
Catherine met her husband,
Adam Beason, on the set of Death Becomes Her. They live in
the Hollywood Hills near LA, with their daughter, Gemma, and their
two Italian greyhounds, Zoe and Leo.
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"I had to wear a bikini for the JAG episode
we filmed in Australia, but that was okay because it was fun, and
practically straight after I was approached by Playboy. I didn't
do it because I didn't want my uncles going, 'I know what your nipples
look like,' every time I saw them."
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