Eleanor Bishop

Eleanor Raye "Ellie" Bishop is a former NSA analyst and a former NCIS Special Agent as well as a member of the NCIS Major Case Response Team.
She is also the daughter of Barbara Bishop, sister of John Bishop, George and Robert Bishop, the ex-wife of Jake Malloy and the ex-girlfriend (almost fiancée) of deceased civilian Qasim Naasir.
In May 2021, Bishop resigned from NCIS for good to begin working on a long-term undercover operation with Odette Malone and following her departure, she was ultimately replaced by NCIS Special Agent Jessica Knight.
As of 2024, it is unknown if she is alive or not.
==Biography==
===Pre-Series===
Born in Hinton, Oklahoma on September 30, 1985, Bishop the youngest of four children born to an unnamed father and Barbara Bishop with Bishop's three older brothers named George, John and Robert.
After graduating from college she joined the NSA where she met Jake Malloy with the two of them marrying some time later.
During her time at the NSA, Bishop discovered the activities of terrorist Benham Parsa and began working to such an extent that she developed an obsession with him. This had her superiors worried and eventually concerned for her well-being, and they took her off the case.
===NCIS Season 11===
Bishop made her debut appearance in the NCIS Season 11 episode Gut Check (episode) where her boss, NSA Special Agent Chad Flynderling, introduced her to NCIS Special Agents Leroy Jethro Gibbs and Anthony DiNozzo Junior.
===NCIS Season 12===
===NCIS Season 13===
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===NCIS Season 15===
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===NCIS Season 17===
===NCIS Season 18===
==Occupation==
Prior to joining NCIS, Bishop worked as an analyst for the NSA (National Security Agency) although when she first began working at NSA remains unknown. She met her ex-husband, Jake Malloy, there.
She later joined NCIS, first as a liaison officer to NCIS via NSA before being promoted to NCIS Probationary Agent.
Following the capture of both Leroy Jethro Gibbs and Timothy McGee in Paraguay, Bishop effectively became both the senior field agent and the special agent in charge of Gibbs's depleted Major Case Response Team.
==Personality==
==Physical Appearance==
Bishop is a Caucasian woman in her thirties with a small, skinny frame, long light blonde hair, and brown eyes.
In her first appearance in "Gut Check", Bishop wore a woollen jumper and slightly torn jeans with holes visible in them as well as brown boots along with a caramel-colored jacket.
Since joining NCIS as a Liaison between NCIS and NSA and eventually, as a full-time NCIS Special Agent, Bishop has continued wearing a similar style including jackets, jeans, trousers, and boots.
Whenever she is out in the field, Bishop wears the traditional NCIS windbreaker or coat while also donning the NCIS cap.
She also ties her hair up and like her predecessors (Caitlin Todd and Ziva David), places her own hair which is often tied up into a bun directly under the cap itself so that it sticks out at the end of the cap.
Like her colleagues, Bishop wears a holster containing her SIG-Sauer, and similarly to Gibbs and Tony, Bishop also wears the holster and her NCIS badge on her right hip.
Similarly to Agent Timothy McGee, former NCIS Director Jennifer Shepard, and OSP Technical Analyst Nell Jones, Bishop wears her watch on her right wrist and like Shepard and Jones, Bishop is right-handed while McGee is left-handed.
When she first joined the team, Bishop was seen wearing her wedding ring. However, she stopped wearing it after the NCIS Season 13 episode Spinning Wheel (episode), where she told Jake their marriage was over because of him cheating on her. 
From the NCIS Season 15 episode Skeleton Crew (NCIS episode) onward, Bishop started wearing a single gold necklace around her neck and a single gold bracelet of some kind around her left wrist.
In Fake It 'Til You Make It (episode), Bishop began wearing a pendant with a gold chain around her neck in addition to the gold necklace she also wore.
From Boom (episode) to Toil and Trouble (episode), Bishop wore two pendants along with the gold necklace around her neck.
While in the field, Bishop wore an NCIS windbreaker with the words "NCIS Federal Agent" on the back and an NCIS cap.
For the first five years as an NCIS Special Agent, Bishop carried a SIG-Sauer P239 as her personal sidearm, keeping it in a holster when it was not being used.
From NCIS Season 17 onward, she replaced it with the SIG-Sauer P225 and later the SIG-Sauer P225-A1, using both as her weapon in the field.
==Abilities==
As an NSA analyst, Bishop was originally trained to determine possible threats and also break any possibly encrypted information.
Now an NCIS Special Agent, Bishop has undergone training, enabling her to use her NSA skills in conjunction with the skills associated with being an NCIS agent including processing crime scenes as well as arresting and interrogating possible suspects.
She speaks six languages, fluent Pashto being one of them, although she is unfamiliar with every dialect.
She has knowledge of hand-to-hand combat, as of Head of the Snake (NCIS episode).
Like her predecessor Caitlin Todd, she is skilled at drawing and painting. 
==Trivia==
*Before joining NCIS as a full-time agent, Ellie served as an NSA liaison similar to her predecessor, Ziva David who originally served as the Mossad liaison and also Marty Deeks who served as the LAPD liaison on "NCIS: Los Angeles", twelve years after his first appearance in NCIS: Los Angeles Season 1 before he was let go from the LAPD and subsequently became an NCIS Investigator halfway through NCIS: Los Angeles Season 12.
*The only main characters on the mothership she never met were Caitlin Todd, Jenny Shepherd and Alden Parker.
==Appearances==
For a more detailed list, see Eleanor Bishop/List of Appearances.
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