This is all you need to know about Diona – and her wife Patricia Villetto whom she married in 2018.

When a TV show runs long enough, they’ll always end up introducing many new characters. Sometimes these are minor recurring roles, but new characters can take the lead in other cases.

There are many examples of when this hasn’t worked out at all, but in other cases, it can keep the show going for many more seasons.

Diona felt that fans might not accept her as Pauley Perrette’s replacement. However, she got fantastic support from Pauley herself. And in fact, the two even sat down before Diona went on the show, with Perrette giving her a vital lesson.

So who is Diona Reasonover? This is all you need to know about the 30-year-old actress!

Diona Reasonover was born on January 6, 1992, in Detroit, Michigan. Even as a young girl, television and movies were a big part of her life, as she usually watched them with her father.

She loved the comedy genre from the start, with Detroit also being where many famous comedians were born.

“I think we’re just born resilient, and comedy is about resilience,” Diona Reasonover told the Detroit Free Press about her and the Detroit citizens.

Diona Reasonover – early life & theatre career

Diona became a huge fan of Whoopi Goldberg and pretty much wanted to become her. The Detroit native described herself as a “math geek” in high school, but had also become very interested in acting. Diona Reasonover starred in several productions with the Mosaic Youth Theatre, where she studied the art of acting.

However, it was clear that there was a plan for Diona – and it was acting. But even though she got a job at the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles working in Shakespeare productions, she felt that it was depressing since her characters always died.

“I went to school thinking, ‘I’ll figure out what I want to do. It probably won’t be acting because I need something more stable than that,’” Diona told Urban Magazine. “And I tried a whole bunch of other things, but I just kept coming back to acting.”

First work in television

“I thought I wanted to do Shakespeare and heavy, heavy stuff, so that’s kind of what my training is in. I started doing comedy just to lighten my mood a little bit. Now it’s like I’m using the past in the present. I like it! It’s fun!”

Her first big part was in the TBS sitcom Clipped after the casting director saw her on CBS. It became Diona Reasonover’s breakthrough and was a special part to play.

“I got this part by being who I am, and I’d like to continue being who I am,” Diona told The Blot. “I’m a queer person of color playing a queer person of color on TV. I’m really bringing myself to the role.”

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Reasonover continued with both acting and writing. She worked on a the TV series Adam Ruins Everything in 2016. The year after, Diona wrote an episode for Amazon’s television series I Love Dick and ten episodes for Sarah Silverman’s show I Love You America, in which she also starred in several episode.

In 2018, she got the role of Kasie Hines, the new Forensic Scientist for the Major Case Response Team in NCIS. Reasonover’s character replaced Abby Sciuto when actress Pauley Perretttee decided to leave.

However, when Diona heard of the role, she didn’t know if it would even be possible. In an interview with the New York Post, she explained that she had knee surgery just two days before the audition.

“I’m on painkillers and like [slurs voice] ‘I don’t think I can drive,’” Reasonover recalled. “I ended up going in later because the auditions were still happening. At that point, I’d been through physical therapy and was still on crutches, but I was moving a lot better.”