Catherine Dent

Acting

Catherine Dent

Born 1965-04-14 · Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA

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.

Acting credits

21 Grams poster
7.3

Paul Rivers, an ailing mathematician lovelessly married to an English émigré; Christina Peck, an upper-middle-class suburban housewife and mother of two girls; and Jack Jordan, a born-again ex-con, are brought together by a terrible accident that changes their lives.

21 Grams

2003

Blonde poster
5.9

From her volatile childhood as Norma Jeane, through her rise to stardom and romantic entanglements, this reimagined fictional portrait of Hollywood legend Marilyn Monroe blurs the lines of fact and fiction to explore the widening split between her public and private selves.

Blonde

2022

Candy Cane Lane poster
6.0

A man, determined to win the neighborhood's annual Christmas decorating contest, makes a pact with an elf to help him win. However, the elf casts a spell bringing the twelve days of Christmas to life, bringing chaos to the small, unsuspecting town.

Candy Cane Lane

2023

The Majestic poster
6.8

Set in 1951, a blacklisted Hollywood writer gets into a car accident, loses his memory and settles down in a small town where he is mistaken for a long-lost son.

The Majestic

2001

The Shield: Wrap Day poster
NR

Documentary of the final day of production on the second season finale of FX's "The Shield", which took place on March 14, 2003.

The Shield: Wrap Day

2006

Auto Focus poster
6.4

A successful TV star during the 1960s, former "Hogan's Heroes" actor Bob Crane projects a wholesome family-man image, but this front masks his persona as a sex addict who records and photographs his many encounters with women, often with the help of his seedy friend, John Henry Carpenter. This biographical drama reveals how Crane's double life takes its toll on him and his family, and ultimately contributes to his death.

Auto Focus

2002

Someone Like You... poster
6.0

Jane Goodale has everything going for her. She's a producer on a popular daytime talk show, and is in a hot romance with the show's dashing executive producer Ray. But when the relationship goes terribly awry, Jane begins an extensive study of the male animal, including her womanizing roommate Eddie. Jane puts her studies and romantic misadventure to use as a pseudonymous sex columnist -- and becomes a sensation.

Someone Like You...

2001

Nobody's Fool poster
6.9

A rascally nearing-retirement man juggles a workers' compensation suit while secretly working for his nemesis and flirting with his nemesis' young wife. As his estranged son returns, he faces new family responsibilities, while a banker plots to evict him from his home.

Nobody's Fool

1994

Replicant poster
5.8

Scientists create a genetic clone of a serial killer in order to help catch the killer, teaming up with two cops.

Replicant

2001

Moving On poster
5.9

Two old friends reconnect at their friend's funeral, and decide to exact revenge on the widower who wronged all three of them decades earlier.

Moving On

2023

Carjacked poster
5.1

A single mom and her child are carjacked by a bank robber who has no intention of letting them go.

Carjacked

2011

Rachel Hendrix poster
NR

A creative writing professor experiences a relapse of grief one year after the loss of her husband. Rachel Hendrix must face the challenge of how to deal with private grief in a time of public trauma as COVID-19 wrecks its way through both town and her much loved coastal world.

Rachel Hendrix

2023

Drew Peterson: Untouchable poster
5.3

The story of Drew Peterson, who is charged with the death of his third wife after the mysterious disappearance of his fourth wife.

Drew Peterson: Untouchable

2014

Halfway There poster
2.0

Jimmy Bishop runs a sober living facility and is forced to take in his wealthy alcoholic mother as a client.

Halfway There

2017

Jaded poster
5.3

When an innocent young girl finds herself befriended by two sexy, uninhibited girls at a small-town bar, she discovers that they have more planned than just a party-and she's central to the action.

Jaded

1998

Natalee Holloway poster
6.0

On May 30, 2005, on a high school graduation trip to Aruba, she disappeared without a trace.

Natalee Holloway

2009

Galyntine poster
0.5

Takes place at a time after a cataclysmic technology-induced disaster has resulted in a new society that has eschewed any form of technology. This catastrophic event leaves small numbers of survivors scattered around the planet and forced to adapt to isolation and unique challenges.

Galyntine

2014

Venomous poster
5.0

Mutant snakes survived a terrorist attack on a government laboratory, and they now threaten the town of Santa Mira Springs, California. Seismic activity has brought snakes to the surface, where residents are being bitten. Victims can transmit the virus to healthy persons. The military puts the town under quarantine. Local physicians try to control the epidemic, while the military is primarily concerned with keeping the virus a secret.

Venomous

2002

Guilty at 17 poster
5.8

A teenager becomes overwhelmed with guilt after her lies to support a friend's claim of sexual assault lead to the accused teacher's suicide.

Guilty at 17

2014

Dangerous Proposition poster
2.8

A woman, believing that her husband is having an affair, gets a stranger to proposition him so she can record the encounter.

Dangerous Proposition

1998

The Bad Son poster
3.8

The women in a Seattle serial killer's life often had an unpleasant way of turning up dead - from his girlfriend to his mother-in-law to his second wife. The police and FBI knew who the killer was, but were never prepared to face a bizarre twist in the case-that his own mother was an employee of the Seattle Police Department with access to confidential documents--and was a woman who didn't hesitate to interfere with justice...

The Bad Son

2007

Tides of War poster
4.4

In the cold, dark waters off North Korea a U.S. Navy fast attack submarine meets with a mysterious disaster - it's attacked and nearly sunk by an ominous stealth submarine resulting in the deaths of the Executive Officer and the Engineering Officer.

Tides of War

2005

Duress poster
5.3

Haunted with nightmares of his wife's recent suicide and struggling to mend the relationship with his only daughter, Richard is caught as a witness to the violence of Abner Solvie. He finds himself at the mercy of a charismatic killer and plagued by his involvement in the city's recent murders. As Abner's new found protégé, Richard is forced to adopt the mind of his sociopathic mentor in order to protect the one he loves. Richard must decide if he's willing to kill in order to keep his daughter alive.

Duress

2009

The Unseen poster
6.4

Set in small-town rural Georgia, a man returns to his hometown to face the deep-rooted racial tensions of a deep southern town that ages, but never changes.

The Unseen

2005