Catherine Dent, who is a graduate of the North Carolina School of the Arts, has taken numerous roles that showed her versatility as an actor. She first starred in Nobody's Fool alongside Paul Newman, and played Ashley Judd's sister in Someone Like You. Her television stints include The Sopranos, Law & Order and CSI. Danielle Sofer is played by Catherine Dent on FX Network's police drama series The Shield. An aspiring detective, patrol officer Danny Sofer is engaged in an on-and-off affair with Vic Mackey. She was assigned to become the mentor for Julien Lowe even though the two didn't get along very well.