Pauley Perrette is an American actress. She is known for playing Abby Sciuto in the television series NCIS from 2003 to 2018. On June 7, 2019, Perrette said she left NCIS due to an on-set dog bite and alleged multiple physical assaults. She is also a published writer, singer, and passionate civil rights advocate who has directed a 2013 documentary on Mark Lane, author, and U.S. Civil Rights Attorney. She is on the board of various charity groups and organizations like NOH8’, ‘People Assisting the Homeless (PATH)’, ‘Equality California (EQCA)’, ‘AIDS Walk LA', and several other more.
She is known for playing Abby Sciuto in the television series NCIS from 2003 to 2018.
Perrette was born on March 27, 1969, in New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S. and raised throughout the southern United States: Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, North Carolina, and South Carolina. She also lived in New York, New Jersey, and California in her early days. She is the daughter of a firefighter father and mother, Donna Bell. More details on her father and her siblings are currently under review. Perrette is American by nationality and belongs to White ethnicity. Her religion is Christianity and her zodiac is Aries. As a child and teenager, Perrette's early ambitions were to work with animals, be in a rock and roll band or be an FBI agent.
Pauley Perrette went to Crestwood High School in Georgia. Perrette then attended Valdosta State University in Valdosta, Georgia, where she studied criminal justice, and later moved to New York City to study at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice. Perrette worked as a bartender in the club, a cook on a Manhattan dinner cruise boat and various other jobs during her early life.
The actress, Pauley Perrette has an estimated net worth of $16 million as of 2020. Her average salary is at present not disclosed to the public domain. Her major source of income is her career as a professional actress. This huge sum is plausible to expect as she has invested her three decades of life in the entertainment industry. Additionally, she also earned from various commercials as well. Also she a writer, producer, director, and singer. Moving on to her other properties, she owns Hollywood Hills home in Los Angeles. Perrette co-owns Donna Bell's Bake Shop, named for her mother, in Manhattan, New York City. She rides the 1931 Ford Coupe.
Perrette is currently divorced. Perrette was married to Canadian actor and musician Coyote Shivers in 2000; the couple separated four years later but finalized divorce only in 2006. Her ex-husband subjected her to physical, emotional, and sexual abuse during and after their marriage. She then dated cameraman Michael Bosman for four years starting in 2005. The two did not marry, saying they would wait until everyone can get married in The United States. Bosman did not propose until the legalization of same-sex marriage in California in June 2008. However Perrette and Bosman split in 2010, and in December 2011 she announced her engagement to former British Royal Marine Thomas Arklie. She had again announced that the couple would not marry until Proposition 8 is invalidated.
On June 7, 2019, Perrette said she left NCIS due to an on-set dog bite and alleged multiple physical assaults. Perrette initiated her acting career starting in 1994 from Televisions, mostly playing in commercials, voice-overs, music videos, and short films. She moved to Los Angeles where she got a chance to play bit parts and make guest appearances in several TV series after she was introduced by a friend to an advertising agency director. She appeared as a waitress at Cafe Nervosa in the sitcom Frasier during season four in 1996. In 2001, as a recurring character introduced in season two of Special Unit 2, she played Alice Cramer, the Unit's public relations person. She landed her most prominent role, that of Abby Sciuto, an eccentric forensic scientist, in NCIS, a television series based on the Naval Criminal Investigative Service from 2003 to 2018.
He other notable TV series include The Drew Carey Show(1998), Time of Your Life(1999-2000), Dawson's Creek(2001), 24(2002) and Broke(2020). Her featured films include The Price of Kissing(1997), Almost Famous(2000), The Ring(2001) and several other voices over role films. In addition to acting, Perrette is a poet, author (her short story "Cheers..." appears in the anthology Pills, Thrills, Chills, and Heartache: Adventures in the First Person), photographer, and spoken-word artist, a lover of music of all kinds, and a passionate advocate for civil rights. Perrette was the lead singer in the Los Angeles-based, all-female band Lo-Ball, using the stage name "Pauley P." The song "Can't Get Me Down". Perrette recorded the song "Fear" (co-written with Tom Police) under the name "Stop Making Friends" for the episode, NCIS: "Aliyah" Perrette also appeared in "The Unnamed Feeling" video for the heavy metal band Metallica from their album St. Anger and was the featured vocalist on a song called "Fire in Your Eyes" by B. Taylor, a Las Vegas-based hip-hop artist in 2011.
The NCIS's Abby, Pauley is now 50 years old. Even so, she still looks full of juice in her body. The actress has an elegant height of 5 feet 10 inches (1.78 m) tall. She has a well-balanced body that weighs 59 kg (130 lbs). Similarly, her beauty is complemented by her blonde hair color and green eyes. Her body figure is sexy with the overall definition of 34-24-35 inches. Similarly, her bra size is 34B, the dress size is 4 US and the shoe size is 10 (US). She has straight sexuality.