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Lisa Bell (born August 14, 1968) is an actress known for her role
of Lt. Colonel Sarah MacKenzie of the television show JAG from
1995 to 2005. Recently she has starred in the Lifetime Television
hit series Army Wives as Denise Sherwood. Her first appearance in
a film was as a partially nude body double for Isabella Rossellini
in Death Becomes Her (1992). In 2003, Bell played a supporting
role in the comedy Bruce Almighty, which starred Jim Carrey. She
reprised that role in a cameo in the 2007 sequel, Evan Almighty.
From 1997 to 2005, Bell played U.S. Marine Corps Lt. Col. Sarah
MacKenzie on the television series JAG, as a practicing attorney
in the U.S. Navy's Judge Advocate General's Corps of legal
experts. Earlier TV work included an appearance in a late night
adult series called "Hot line" which aired in the U.K.
From 1994 to 1996. Bell was featured in "The Brunch
Club" episode. Bell has also acted in the Sci-Fi Channel
miniseries, The Triangle, presented in December 2005, where she
played the role of an ocean engineer. In 2006, she was nominated
in Saturn Award of Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy &
Horror Films for Best Supporting Actress on Television (The
Triangle). From 2007-Present, Bell appears in Lifetime's ensemble
drama series Army Wives, as Denise Sherwood, the wife of a US Army
major, who is enduring physical abuse at the hands of her teenage
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