Diane Neal 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 is also well known as Special Agent Abigail Borin on on NCIS from season 7 to pres...
Her father is a U.S. federal attorney and her mother is a math professor.
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The youngest of three daughters, Leigh, Erin and Diane. Her older sister has one of her many degrees in theater.
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Diane went to college at 16 years old. Diane had wanted to attend an Ivy League school, but because of her young age, her parents made her attend the same school as her older sister, in Hawaii.
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Studied archaeology in Egypt and Israel in 1999 after quitting modeling.
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Engaged after only two weeks to her fiancé, Marcus Fitzgerald, an engineer and former model. The couple married on July 9, 2005, after a seven-year engagement.
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Before becoming A.D.A. Casey Novak on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999), she had appeared on Season 3 Episode 10 ("Ridicule") of SVU, as a woman who had gang raped a male stripper with her female friends.
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She is a former model and started modeling around the world at age 18.
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She was a competitive figure skater in high school.
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She studied acting in a six-week acting course at the Atlantic Acting School (part of the Atlantic Theater Company) in New York.