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Pauley Perrette became famous as Abby Sciuto on NCIS. But before that, she was just another actress working hard to make a name for herself in Hollywood. Most fans know her for her gothic appearance in the crime drama, but not many people remember that she had smaller roles before her big break. One of those roles was in the hit sitcom Frasier, where she appeared in a brief but interesting part.

Pauley Perrette as Abby Sciuto in NCIS | Credits: CBS

What makes this role even more surprising is how different she looked at the time. With a much lighter hair color and a softer appearance, she was almost unrecognizable compared to the Abby Sciuto fans later came to love.

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Pauley Perrette is best known for playing Abby Sciuto, the smart and quirky forensic scientist on NCIS. She became a...

Abby Sciuoto won’t be making a surprise return to NCIS. Pauley Perrette, who played the quirky forensic scientist on the CBS drama, recently confirmed that she’s quit acting for good.

Pauley Perrette will ‘never again’ return to ‘NCIS’ Abby (Pauley Perrette) in ‘NCIS’ | Adam Rose/CBS ©2011 CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved

Perrette appeared in more than 350 episodes of NCIS between 2003 and 2018. Her character was a favorite with many fans, some of whom have held out hope that she might one day return to the show. (NCIS Season 22 premieres Oct. 14.) But in a recent interview, Perrette said there was no chance she’d pop up in future episodes of the procedural.

Perrette, 55, told Hello! that while she was “not ungrateful” to the benefits that came with her unexpected acting career, she’d “never again” work as an actor.

“I’m a different person now and I want to...

When Pauley Perrette said she had no plans to return to acting, she meant it.

The former actress, once a beloved TV star thanks to a long-running role as forensic scientist Abby Sciuto on the CBS stalwart NCIS, further explained her decision to step away from the limelight in a new interview with Hello! “I’m not ungrateful for the benefits that it gave to me but I’m a different person now and I want to be here for it — the good and the bad and the painful,” she said. “I want to be me all the time, and it takes a good amount of courage for me to say that to myself but it’s authentically how I feel.”

Perrette was cast on NCIS in 2003 after having worked as an actor for nearly a decade on such projects as The Drew Carey Show, Veronica’s Closet, Jesse, Almost Famous and Time of Your Life.

Abby's return to NCIS has received a definitive response from star Pauley Perrette after exiting the series six years ago. Perrette's potential return to the role of Abby continues to be floated by fans. That's both because of the circumstances around her departure, involving a very public spat with series lead Mark Harmon, and the fact that Abby was integral to the long-running procedural. The character appeared in two episodes of Jag, which was as a backdoor pilot for what would eventually become the spinoff NCIS.

In a recent interview with Hello!, Perrette definitively shut down any possibility of returning to acting following her retirement in July 2020. The former actor stressed that she was not ungrateful for the benefits that acting provided. However, Perrette candidly discussed her reasons for remaining committed to retirement. She said in part: I want to be me all the time. Now a producer of documentaries,...

"NCIS" will return this fall for a staggering 22nd season, but the wildly popular crime procedural won't feature former co-star Pauley Perrette — this season, or ever again. The actress who played quirky goth forensics specialist (and certified scene-stealer) Abby Sciuto for well over a decade has been clear about as much in the past, but she recently spoke about her complete retirement from acting in a new interview with Hello! Magazine, saying she used acting as an escape from reality at some points in her career.

Perrette left "NCIS" in 2018, stating via an X post that she was subject to on-set bullying that turned physical and later setting the record straight by explaining that she would never come back to the show. "No I Am Not Coming Back! Ever! (Please stop asking?)" the actress posted on X in 2019, naming co-star Dan Harmon as the source of her stress. "I am...

Clifford Bell, the cabaret impresario, director and producer affectionately known as “Lawrence of Cabarabia,” died Sunday of natural causes at Cha Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center, publicist Steve Moyer announced. He was 67.

“Clifford Bell was a force of nature!” Moyer said in a statement. “He lived and breathed music every day of his life to the very end.”

A 40-year show business veteran, Bell wrote and directed variety performances featuring the likes of Walter Cronkite, Colin Powell and Michael Eisner at the Honda Center in Anaheim and toured with Katey Sagal and her band.

As a cabaret director, he helmed shows for singers Gregg Marx, Todd Murray, Lois Bourgon, Carol Whitener, Joanne Tatham, Bonnie Gilgallon, Lauren White, Quinn Johnson, Chase Masterson, Lee Lessack, Bobbie Norman and Katrina Aguilar.

He produced albums for singers Betsyann Faiella, Eileen Barnett and Judy Butterfield and directed one-person shows starring Beth Lapides, Joan Hotchkis, Juliette Marshall,...