She had a great run as a significant character in the well regarded series “The Shield” and then a series of mostly one episode TV appearances.
She didn’t go away completely, but I would have expected more than a dozen years of journeyman appearances as the minor character of the week.
ACCORDING TO HER WIKIPEDIA SHE STAYS DECENTLY BUSY...OF COURSE I HAVENT WATCHED MANY OF THE THINGS SHE HAS DONE SINCE THE SHIELD...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_Dent
It's kind of puzzling. The normal explanation would be that she married a high-end attorney, and both her husband and herself come from fairly affluent families, so slogging in Hollywood wasn't really necessary.
Yet, slog she has, and I can't quite grasp why she continued to take so many small roles for so long. I *kind of* would have expected her to just bow out, between her husband's income, her Shield income, and whatever her and her husband might have gotten from their parents.
Even more surprising was the lack of any actual traction in terms of better roles. Honestly, she would have made a great recurring character on "Justified" given her natural southern accent, and Walton Goggins would have been the link. She would have been as or more interesting as Deputy Marshall Rachel Brooks than the actress who played her.