Andrea Catherwood was born on 27 November 1967 in Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK. She has been married to Gray Smith since 28 September 2002. They have three children.
November, 2001: She narrowly escaped serious injury in a Taleban
suicide attack, which killed three people and seriously wounded a
Northern Alliance commander at Qala-i-Jhangi fort. She was hit in the
knee by a piece of shrapnel from a hand grenade.
