<Tr> <Th> Spouse (s) </Th> <Td> Marcus Fitzgerald (m . 2005--14) </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Website </Th> <Td> www.dianeneal.org </Td> </Tr> <P> Diane Neal (born November 17, 1976) is an American actress best known for her role as Casey Novak on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, which she played from 2003 to 2008, then reprised her role from 2011 to 2012 . She has portrayed Coast Guard Investigative Service Special Agent Abigail Borin in the NCIS franchise since 2009, appearing as an annual special guest star in NCIS since its seventh season, and as a recurring guest star in NCIS: New Orleans . </P> <P> Neal was born in Alexandria, Virginia, the daughter of Colleen, a math teacher, and Christopher Neal, a federal attorney, the youngest of three sisters . She was raised in Littleton, Colorado and Ohio . Neal graduated high school at 16 and moved to Hawaii to attend college as a pre-major, although she later left school to become a model and travel around the world . Neal started modeling at 18 for Shiseido and Pond's skin - care ads . She later quit In 1999 and went to study biblical archaeology in Egypt and Israel "because I wanted to be Indiana Jones really badly ." </P>

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