Catherine Lisa Bell (born August 14, 1968 in London, England) is a British born American actress & model who was, until recently, the co-star of the CBS television show JAG. Bell is the daughter of a British father of Scottish descent and an Iranian mother. Her parents divorced when she was a toddler and she and her mother moved to Los Angeles, California when she was three years old. She became a naturalized citizen of the United States at age 12. She acted in various television advertisements as a child. She attended the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) with an interest in becoming a biomedical engineer or a medical doctor but dropped out to become a model. One of her first modeling jobs was an extended assignment in Japan. |
