Denise Sherwood

Denise Sherwood
Army Wives character
Catherine Bell as Denise Sherwood
First appearance	"A Tribe is Born" (episode 1.01)
Last appearance	"All or Nothing" (episode 7.13)
Created by	Katherine Fugate
Portrayed by	Catherine Bell
Information
Full name	Denise Branch (birth name) Denise Sherwood (married name)
Gender	Female
Occupation	Nurse Practitioner Former: Emergency medical technician Registered nurse (at Mercer Army Hospital)
Title	NP
Family	Suzanne (older sister) Beth (younger sister)
Spouse(s)	Frank Sherwood (husband; 2 children)
Significant other(s)	Mac (affair) Dr. Chris Ferlhingetti (kissed)
Children	Jeremy T. Sherwood (son, with Frank; deceased) Molly Victoria Sherwood (daughter, with Frank)
Residence	Fort Marshall, South Carolina

Denise Sherwood (née Branch) is a fictional character on the Lifetime television series Army Wives, portrayed by Catherine Bell.

Denise is a military brat and has at least two sisters, Beth and Suzanne. She mentioned having brothers but the exact number of siblings she has is never confirmed. At age 19 or 20, as a nursing student, she was doing her clinical hours at a hospital near Fort Bliss when she first met Frank Sherwood. Frank was brought in with a broken leg and arm after jumping off a radio tower as part of a bet. They subsequently married not long after and she never finished her nursing qualifications. In Season 6 she tells Claudia Joy that she and Frank have moved 14 times in the last 23 years.

The Sherwoods are close friends with the Holdens; Denise and Claudia Joy Holden are best friends while their children have known each since elementary school. They first met while stationed at Fort Carson.

Frank affectionately calls her "Dee". They have a son Jeremy, who was seventeen and about to graduate from high school when the show first premiered. Jeremy had a difficult relationship with both parents. He was frustrated and angry at his father and would take it out on Denise by physically hitting her. Towards the end of Season 1 he shocks them by enlisting in the Army, mainly out of guilt for hitting his mother and failing to meet his father's expectations. Frank disowned Jeremy after finding out that he had been hitting Denise while he was away in Iraq. During his leave he eventually made amends with Jeremy.

In Season 4 Denise discovers that she is pregnant after being told that she could no longer have children after Jeremy. She goes into labor during the season finale while on the phone with Jeremy, who was in Iraq on his second tour. Frank, who was also in Iraq, was able to witness the birth via webcam. Before he left for Iraq they agreed to name her Molly Victoria.

Denise finished earning her nursing degree, and starts work as an RN at the post hospital. This causes a division between Denise and Frank, as he feels her start to change and become more independent. Denise and Frank filed for divorce, because Denise had an affair with a patient, Mac, while Frank was away in Iraq. Frank found out about the affair through another soldier and was sent home to deal with his marital affairs. Frank also had reasons to be suspicious, because when Dr. Chris Ferlinghetti (Getti) was still alive, Denise and Getti got extremely close, and after Getti's motorcycle wreck while he was in the hospital, Frank saw Denise kissing his hand.