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Pauley Perrette Profile |
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Birth Date: March 27, 1969
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Birth Place: New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
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Birth Name: Pauley Perrette
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Height: 5'10"
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Biography |
Pauley Perrette is an American
actress, best known for playing Abby Sciuto on NCIS.
Perrette was "born in New Orleans and raised all over" the
southern United States. She told Craig Ferguson (on the Late
Show) she has lived in Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, North
Carolina, South Carolina, New York, New Jersey, Los Angeles.
After years of working in television and film (mostly doing
commercials, voice-overs, music videos and short films), and
a chance meeting while tending bar in NYC, Perrette embarked
on her current role: she plays Abby Sciuto, an eccentric
forensic scientist, on the TV series NCIS, a TV series based
on the Naval Criminal Investigative Service. She also
appeared as a waitress at Cafe Nervosa in Frasier during
season 4, and later guest starred in Season One of 24.
In addition to acting, Perrette is also a published poet,
writer, photographer, and spoken-word artist, a lover of
music of all kinds, and a passionate advocate for civil
rights. She was the lead singer in the Los Angeles based all
female band Lo-Ball; a song by Lo-Ball can be heard during
the movie Legally Blonde. Perrette appeared in the "The
Unnamed Feeling" video for heavy metal band Metallica off of
their album St. Anger. In 2007 she produced a documentary
about U.S. civil rights attorney and author Mark Lane.
In an interview with Craig Ferguson (on the Late Show) she
said she has a life long crime obsession. She was an
undergrad student in Sociology, Psychology, and Criminal
Science. Started masters in Criminal Science before ending
up in the entertainment industry. She has ended up playing a
forensic scientist, which is what she was training to be in
the first place.
In 1994, she appeared in a Volkswagen Golf commercial for
Volkswagen of America.
Perrette supports many charity organizations, including
animal rescue, the American Red Cross, civil rights, and gay
rights. She was married for three years to sometimes
musician Coyote Shivers. She has been granted four
consecutive restraining orders against him since leaving
him.
Perrette toured the actual NCIS offices on 2005-09-30,
accompanied by an Entertainment Tonight camera crew. During
the tour, NCIS Regional Forensic Lab director Dawn Sorenson
(Abby's real life counterpart), told Perrette, "You make us
all look good, so we're grateful."
On February 1, 2007, Perrette removed her personal online
blog and website because of "someone who will not leave me
alone and obsessively tracks my blog for information on me."
Perrette was being threatened and her safety was at risk.
On July 24, 2007, Perrette worked with America's Most Wanted
to present the city of Prattville, Alabama with a check for
$10,000, which will be used to supplement the reward offer
for information leading to the arrest of Shannon Paulk's
killer. Paulk was from Prattville, Alabama, near where
Perrette had once lived as a child. Earlier in the week,
Perrette also donated $10,000 to Detroit law enforcement
officials for a reward in disappearance/murder of Raven
Jeffries, a 7-year-old Detroit girl. Perrette's boyfriend is
from Detroit. The story originally aired on America's Most
Wanted on September 8, 2007 on FOX. |
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Other
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Poet and Spoken Word artist.
She is a published Poet.
Her two favourite published CDs are "Distorted Lullabies"
and "Precious".
If all else fails, she would like to be a Security Guard
someday. |
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since February 12, 2008