VIDEO : 'NCIS' Actress Pauley Perrette Assaulted in Hollywood

Pauley Perrette, an actress on the popular U.S. television show "NCIS," was attacked in Los Angeles by a homeless man who punched her repeatedly in the face and made her fear for her life. Perrette wrote that on Thursday night she was walking on the street near her home when the man grabbed her and struck her on the nose and forehead while threatening to kill her. Perrette, who plays a goth-styled forensic investigator on the hit police procedural "NCIS," said the man kept telling her his name was "William" and warning her not to forget it.