Pauley Perrette
Pauley Perrette is an American actress, known for playing Abby Sciuto on NCIS. She is also a published writer and civil rights advocate.
Pauley 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 forensics.
Pauley 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. She has since appeared as Abby in two 2009 episodes of NCIS: Los Angeles.
She also appeared as a waitress at Cafe Nervosa in Frasier during season 4, and later guest starred in season one of 24. She has made appearances in several films, including The Ring and Almost Famous.
In addition to acting, Pauley is a published poet, writer, photographer, and spoken-word artist, a lover of music of all kinds, and a passionate advocate for civil rights. In 2007, she produced a documentary about U.S. civil rights attorney and author Mark Lane.
In an interview with Craig Ferguson, who is the host of The Late, Late Show, she said she has a lifelong crime obsession. She was an undergrad student in sociology, psychology, and criminal science. She started her master's degree in criminal science before ending up in the entertainment industry. She now plays a forensic scientist, her former career goal.
Pauley was the lead singer in the Los Angeles-based all female band Lo-Ball using the stage name Pauley P. A song by Lo-Ball, "Can't Get Me Down", can be heard during the movie Legally Blonde. Perrette appeared in the "The Unnamed Feeling" video for heavy metal band Metallica from their album St. Anger.
Pauley supports many charitable organizations, including animal rescue, the American Red Cross, civil rights, and gay rights. She and her long time boyfriend, Michael Bosman, held their wedding in Hollywood on Valentine's Day, 2009. The event benefitted charities, such as Project Angel Food. She was married for three years to actor and musician Coyote Shivers. She has been granted restraining orders against him since leaving him.
Pauley worked with America's Most Wanted in February 2004 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 the person who killed Shannon Paulk. Paulk was from Prattville, Alabama, near where Perrette had once lived as a child. Perrette also donated $10,000 to Detroit law enforcement officials to be used as a reward for information regarding the disappearance/murder of Raven Jeffries, a 7-year-old Detroit girl. (Perrette's husband was from Detroit.) The story originally aired on America's Most Wanted on September 8, 2007 on Fox. She also asked them for help in finding the person(s) who killed her friend, Lisa Williamson, who was murdered in 2007 after her Detroit home was set on fire.
During the fall of 2008, Perrette opposed the California referendum item Proposition 8, writing a public letter urging Californians to vote against the measure.
Please pray for Pauley this week, that God will show her the truth of salvation by grace through faith exclusively in the Son of God, Jesus Christ.
--Heidi