Pauley Perrette was born in New Orleans and moved several times as a child due to her father's job. She graduated college with Honours - receiving her Master's Degree in Criminology.

She tended bar in New York City while doing commercials, voice-overs, Musica video and short films. She later moved to Los Angeles, and has since worked steadily in film, Televisione and voice-overs.

She was the lead singer in the band Lo-Ball
and is now in a band called stop making friends( one of there songs Fear will be on the NCIS - Unità anticrimine sound track).

Pauley Perrette's Televisione credits include "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation," on CBS, "Murder One," "The Drew Carey Show," "Jesse," "Time of Your Life," "Philly," "Special Unit 2," "NCIS," "Haunted" and "24."

Her feature film credits include "The Price of Kissing," "Almost Famous," "Hungry Hearts," "The Ring" and "Ash Tuesday."

Trivia
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.
Engaged to Michael Bosman [January 27, 2009].
divorced Coyote Shivers in 2006.