Allison Dubois

American medium and criminal profiler whose work is the basis for 2005 TV show, "The Medium." The show, starring Patricia Arquette as DuBois, first aired in the United States on January 3, 2005. Kelsey Grammer, who had spotted DuBois on a reality show featuring psychics, became one of the executive producers of "Medium." DuBois' book "Don't Kiss Them Good-Bye," was published in November 2004. DuBois' spiritualist experiences began at age 6 when, the night her great-grandfather died, she saw him standing at the foot of her bed, with words of reassurance for her and her family. She took her first case working with officials in 2000 and says she has helped solve dozens of missing persons and murder cases. In 2001, Dr. Gary Schwartz, a former Yale psychologist, tested DuBois and gave her his seal of approval. "From our first meeting she was remarkable. She performs among the best of the best, including John Edward," Schwartz reported. An only child whose parents divorced when she was six months old, DuBois left home at 16. As she followed her dream of becoming a lawyer, she landed an intern's position in the homicide department of the Phoenix District Attorney's Office in 2000. She began faxing her psychic observations to law enforcement authorities. Catching the attention of the Texas Rangers who were working on a murder case, she says she described the murderer and the accomplices and predicted when the victim's body would be found. DuBois and her husband Joe, an aerospace engineer, married in 1993, and the couple has three daughters, who, their father says, all inherited their mother's gifts. Link to Wikipedia biography