Hi. My name's Gil Grissom and I work for the Las Vegas Crime Lab in Nevada. I'm a CSI level three and also the graveshift supervisor there. I'm 51 years old and I was born on August the 17th 1956. I have a Ph. degree, and I specialize in Entomolgy- B.S. in Biology at UCLA.
       I grew up in Marina Del Rey, California where my mother ran an art gallery in Venice, and my father was in the "import/export" business, dealing primarily with communist China. Soon after, my father began his career teaching botany.
       At the age of eight, I began riding my bike out to the beach every day to collect dead seagulls, opossums, and anything else I could find. I would bring the remains home and conduct autopsies, slowly teaching myself the ins and outs of death. As a teenager, I became known to local authorities, who employed me for quick autopsies on dead animals such as cats and dogs. By sixteen, I was an "unofficial intern" for the L.A. County morgue. I worked my way through college and then went to work full time as the youngest coroner in the history of L.A. County.
       I was the youngest coroner in the history of L.A. County at age 22. Eight years later, a headhunter recruited me to run the Field Services office in Las Vegas. I have spent the last 15 years helping Las Vegas move from number 14 to number 2 in the U.S. Crime Lab rankings.
       My philosophy about my work has always been: "If you want to learn about forensics, master everything else first." While others may have a reason for being a CSI, for me the job is not about choice. I could no more work in another profession than a fish could stop swimming. CSI is not a job for me, it's an expression of who I am as a person, the perfect synthesis of personality and profession.
