From 1996 to 2005, Bell's long-running role was as Sarah McKenzie on the American CBS-TV television show JAG.
Bell is the daughter of a British father of Scottish descent and an Iranian mother.
She became a naturalized citizen of the United States at age 12.
Bell is renowned in NFL football history as being the only person ever to have correctly predicted, in a major publication, the participants in, winner, and final score of a Super Bowl before the regular season. Catherine Lisa Bell (born August 14, 1968 in London, England) is a British born American actress and model.
She acted in various television advertisements as a child.
Bell is married to Adam Beason and has a daughter, Gemma, who was born on April 16, 2003.
One of her first modeling jobs was an extended assignment in Japan.
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Her first appearance in a film was as a body double for Isabella Rossellini in Death Becomes Her (1992).
In late 2005, she joined the cast of the science fiction series Threshold, however the series was cancelled before any of her episodes were broadcast in the USA.
In 2003, Bell played a supporting role in the comedy Bruce Almighty.
Her parents divorced when she was a toddler and she and her mother moved to Los Angeles, California when she was three years old.
Bell is fluent in Persian and is a member of the Church of Scientology.
In 2005, Bell appeared in the "The Triangle" on the Sci-Fi channel.
She attended the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) with an interest in becoming either a biomedical engineer or a medical doctor but dropped out to become a model.
She is a survivor of thyroid cancer and had to have her thyroid removed in her 20s, leaving her with a surgical scar on her neck.
It remains to be seen if her appearances will be televised, webcast (several Threshold episodes were presented online), or released to DVD in the future.
Before the 2001 NFL regular season began, "The Sporting News" reported that Bell predicted the outcome of Super Bowl XXXVI would be: New England Patriots 20, St. Louis Rams 17.
