Brian Dietzen Biography
Brian Dietzen is an American actor who has played the supporting role of Dr. Jimmy Palmer on NCIS since 2004. He was promoted to a series regular at the beginning of the show’s tenth season, in 2012.
Dietzen was born in Barrington, Illinois but moved to Colorado as a child. He started acting in elementary school plays. He later studied theatre at the University of Colorado at Boulder’s Bachelor of Fine Arts program.
Dietzen has appeared in productions of Equus, and Waiting for Godot and joined The Colorado Shakespeare Festival for two years. He was cast in The WB series My Guide to Becoming a Rockstar. The part was a series regular as the drummer of the group. Dietzen later teamed up with John Riggi for a two-man show with Steve Rudnick called The Oldest Man in Show Biz.
Brian Dietzen Age
Dietzen was born on November 14, 1977, in Barrington, Illinois, United States. He is 41 years old as of 2018.
Brian Dietzen Wife | Brian Dietzen Kelly Dietzen
Dietzen is married to his wife Kelly Dietzen. The couple has two children. It is not really known when the two got married. Also, the details of their wedding are unknown.
Brian Dietzen NCIS
In the Tv series, NCIS, Dietzen plays the role of Dr. James “Jimmy” Palmer. Jimmy is an assistant medical examiner who first appears in the episode “Split Decision”. He becomes Mallard’s assistant after Gerald Jackson is incapacitated. Jimmy self-identifies as a sufferer of a “mild” case of diabetes mellitus in the episode “In The Dark”.
He often seems intimidated by Gibbs, especially when he goes into one of his trademark strange rambling explanations of something that has not been requested.
Part of the reason that Dr. Mallard and Jimmy are often not at the crime scene until well after Gibbs and his team arrives, is related to Dr. Mallard’s emphasis on Jimmy being a horrible driver and always getting lost. Jimmy tries to defend himself by pointing out that Ducky is the one with the map.
Jimmy was named after former Baltimore Orioles pitcher Jim Palmer but does not like baseball.
He is the central character of the episode “About Face” where he must recover his memory to find a suspect to a murder case and his attempted killer.
Just like Ducky, Jimmy speaks to the dead, though he is far more irreverent, sometimes raising not only eyebrows but doubts about his analytic abilities in the process. Some episodes depict an ongoing illicit office romance between Jimmy and Michelle Lee. The two make excuses for working late and are seen entering and exiting the underside of the autopsy table.
In the episode “Last Man Standing”, Jimmy admits to Gibbs and Vance that he and Agent Lee had been “doing it” for a while. He however says, he had broken it off because he felt “used”.
Jimmy takes over as NCIS’ Acting Chief Medical Examiner in season 15. This is after Ducky takes a sabbatical from NCIS to teach at a New York City medical school. In “Bears and Cubs”, Ducky announces his official retirement from his full-time NCIS position and permanently promotes Jimmy to Chief Medical Examiner.
Brian Dietzen Gay
People have been spread rumors that Dietzen is gay. However, we can conclude that he is not gay. He is married to his wife Kelly Dietzen and the couple already has two children together.
Brian Dietzen Net Worth
Dietzen has a net worth of $2 million.
Brian Dietzen Salary
Dietzen earns an amount of $ 235,294 in a year.
Brian Dietzen Height
Dietzen has a height of 1.83 m.