Pauley Perrette

Pauley Perrette (born March 27, 1969)[3] is an American actress and singer. She played Abby Sciuto in the television series NCIS from 2003 to 2018.

Perrette was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, and raised throughout the southern United States.[4] She lived in Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina, New York, New Jersey, and California.[5] In a 2011 interview with the Associated Press, Perrette confessed her early ambitions were to work with animals, be in a rock and roll band, or be an FBI agent.[6]

Perrette attended Valdosta State University in Valdosta, Georgia, where she studied criminal justice,[7] and later moved to New York City to study at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice. In New York, she held a variety of jobs: “Not only was I bartending in the club kids scene, with a bra and combat boots and a white Mohawk, but I also wore a sandwich board on roller skates passing out flyers for Taco Bell in the Diamond District.” Perrette also worked as a cook on a Manhattan dinner cruise boat.