Pauley Perrette

Pauley Perrette (born March 27, 1969) is an American actress, known for playing Abby Sciuto on the U.S. TV series NCIS. She is also a published writer and civil rights advocate. Perrette was born in New Orleans and raised all over the southern United States. She told Craig Ferguson, on The Late Late Show, that she has lived in Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina, New York, New Jersey, and California. She attended Valdosta State University in Valdosta, Georgia, where she studied criminology. Perrette has worked for years in television and film, mostly doing commercials, voice-overs, music videos and short films, and worked as a bartender in New York City. In 2001, as a recurring character introduced in Season 2 of Special Unit 2, she played Alice Cramer, the Unit's public relations person. She then landed her current role, playing Abby Sciuto, an eccentric forensic scientist, on NCIS, a TV series based on the Naval Criminal Investigative Service.