What she represents is a smart, capable chick that cannot be reduced to a stereotype." On October 4, 2017, TV Guide reported that Perrette would be leaving the series at the end of the 15th season she made her final appearance in the episode "Two Steps Back". Consequently, she told her employers that her character is not the type to seek out a label Abby "wouldn't call herself anything but Abby . Sure, there are nights when a certain event leans more towards one style than the other, but it's not like some turf war with gang colors." Like her character, Perrette has often been asked if she is goth or punk, to which her response is "Who cares?". We've never sat around and labeled each other. Not a junkie, killer, loser, or television stereotype." Perrette added some of her own "contributions" to the character, and also conferred with friend Clint Catalyst, the "author of Cottonmouth Kisses often brought in as a guest on TV shows when they are doing pieces on goth or alternative culture." Perrette explained that "Clint and I and our 3,000 closest friends all play together .
a character who was seemingly an 'alternafreak', while portraying her as perhaps the smartest, most capable person on television.
The character Abby Sciuto was created by Donald P. She has since appeared as Abby in two 2009 episodes of NCIS: Los Angeles, as well as in two episodes of NCIS: New Orleans in 20. Perrette's initial appearances as the character were in two episodes of JAG aired in spring 2003 these served as a backdoor pilot and introduced the characters. 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. 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 has made appearances in several films, including The Ring and Almost Famous. She appeared as a waitress at Cafe Nervosa in the sitcom Frasier during season four (in the episode "Three Dates and a Break Up"), and she guest-starred in season one of 24. This prompted her move to Los Angeles, where she had a variety of bit parts and made several guest appearances. While working odd jobs in New York, she was introduced by a friend to an advertising agency director. She worked as a bartender in New York City. Perrette has worked in television and film, mostly doing commercials, voice-overs, music videos and short films. 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. Perrette 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. 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. She lived in Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina, New York, New Jersey, and California. Perrette was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, and raised throughout the southern United States.