Background
Dent was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, the daughter of Eleanor Brown and Fred C. Dent, a politician.
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.
She is best known for the role of Danielle "Danny" Sofer in the Forex series The Shield. Dent has starred in film and in television as of early 1990"son Her first feature film was the 1994 movie Nobody"s Fool.
On television she played Janice Talbert in One Life to Live, and well has made guest appearances on several television shows, such as on The Pretender, The X-Files, The Invisible Manitoba, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, The Sopranos, Frasier, Judging Amy, Computer Society of India: Crime Scene Investigation, Without a Trace, Grey"s Anatomy, NCIS, and The Mentalist.
Her big breakthrough role came in 2002 as L.A.P.D. Officer Danielle "Danny" Sofer on the Forex hit drama The Shield. On film, she appeared in Replicant (2001), The Majestic (2001) and 21 Grams (2003).