Catherine Dent

Catherine Grace Dent is an American actress. She is best known for the role of Danielle "Danny" Sofer in the FX series The Shield, Janet Anderson in Outcast (2016–2018), and General Hale in Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (2017–2018). Early life Dent was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, the daughter of Eleanor Brown and Fred C. Dent, a politician. She attended high school at St. Joseph's Academy and later studied at the North Carolina School of the Arts. Career Dent began starring in film and television in the early 1990s. Her first feature film was the movie Nobody's Fool (1994). On television she played Janice Talbert in One Life to Live, and made guest appearances on such shows as The Pretender, The X-Files, The Lone Gunmen, The Invisible Man, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, The Sopranos, Frasier, Judging Amy, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Without a Trace, Grey's Anatomy, NCIS, The Mentalist. Her breakthrough role came in 2002, as L.A.P.D. Officer Danielle "Danni" Sofer on FX's hit drama The Shield. On film, she appeared in Replicant (2001), The Majestic (2001), and 21 Grams (2003). In 2002 she starred in Taken as Sally Clarke, the emmy-winning miniseries first aired on the Sci-Fi Channel.