Sarah MacKenzie
| Sarah MacKenzie | |
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Catherine Bell as Lt. Colonel Sarah MacKenzie
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| First appearance |
We the People (January 3, 1997) |
| Last appearance |
Fair Winds and Following Seas (April 29, 2005) |
| Portrayed by | Catherine Bell |
| Information | |
| Nickname(s) | Mac |
| Occupation | Judge Advocate, USMC |
| Family | Joseph MacKenzie (father) Deanne (mother) Colonel Matthew O'Hara, USMC (uncle) |
| Spouse(s) | Christopher Ragle (deceased) |
| Significant other(s) | John Farrow (lover) Michael "Mic" Brumby (former fiancé) Harmon Rabb (fiancé) |
| Rank | Lieutenant Colonel |
| Alma mater |
University of Minnesota USMC Officer Candidate School Duke University School of Law |
Lieutenant Colonel Sarah "Mac" MacKenzie, JAGC, USMC (played by Catherine Bell) is one of the main characters in the JAG TV series.
In her first appearance on the show and for several seasons, she holds the rank of Major USMC, but is then promoted to Lieutenant Colonel USMC during the 5th season. In the final episode of the series Mac is selected as commander of Joint Legal Service Center Southwest, a JAG office in San Diego, California. It is not known if she takes this position since her future is left to the audience's imagination. She and Captain Harmon "Harm" Rabb become engaged during the show's final episode, flipping a coin to see who will resign their commission. A possible spin-off centering on Mac's work in San Diego was pitched to CBS, but the network passed on the spin-off idea.
Born in 1968, Sarah MacKenzie had a troubled childhood; her mother abandoned her and her alcoholic father on the night of Mac's 15th birthday. Her father, Joseph MacKenzie, was physically abusive towards her mother, and emotionally and verbally abusive to Mac. As a partial result of this, Mac became an alcoholic in her mid-to-late teens and had no contact with her mother until she reappeared at her father's deathbed. She also learns at this time that her large white mutt, named Ruggles, was abandoned at a boarding house during her mother's travels after fleeing from her abusive father. She showed more sympathy for her father's efforts to be a good dad, pathetic as they were, and more anger at her mother for leaving them to fend for themselves.
Mackenzie ran away from home when she was 17 (her junior year of high school), and apparently married Christopher Ragle a year later. They were both drunk for much of their married life. He was later arrested and sent to prison for motor vehicle theft. At some point, Mac finished high school. On the night of her graduation, she was traveling in a car with her friend Eddie. They were both drunk, and were involved in a car accident that killed Eddie. Mac hit her low as an alcoholic, and her uncle USMC Colonel Matthew O'Hara took her to Red Rock Mesa, Arizona, to dry out. Mac later repaid the debt owed to him by making sure he did not get killed during an incident where he and a group of rogue Marines hijacked a van transporting the Declaration of Independence.
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