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NYPD Blue's Charlotte Ross: "Wearing Fur is a Serious Offense."

ABC’s NYPD Blue took viewers’ pulses on a high-speed race when it aired a steamy scene showing David Caruso’s bare backside … and then came Dennis Franz. Now, another cast member has cast aside her inhibitions, this time for a cause. Charlotte Ross, who plays unshakable Detective Connie McDowell on the celebrated series, is the latest in a long line of famous faces—and bodies—to bare it all for animals.

Ross loses her uniform for PETA’s "Rather Go Naked Than Wear Fur" series, replacing her badge with one, carefully positioned, white rabbit. The two-time Emmy-nominated actor creates an arresting image with an enticing message: "I’d rather show my buns than wear fur." The full-page ad, shot by photographer Robert Sebree in L.A. last month, will appear in Gear magazine at the end of March, just in time for Easter.

"In my TV job as a police detective, I have to deal with some pretty cold-hearted characters," says Ross. "But I can’t think of anything more heartless than to torment and kill animals in the name of fashion."

Animals raised for fur face lives in small cages, often sick or injured and left unattended to, unprotected in extreme weather conditions, or days of agony in traps, tearing flesh and breaking bones in a struggle to get free.

NYPD Blue’s Charlotte Ross Bares Her Buns

Ross joins the ranks of Dominique Swain, Pamela Anderson, Kim Basinger, Sheryl Lee, and Christy Turlington, who’ve also gone au naturel to save animals’ skins in PETA’s highly publicized "Naked" series. Besides its celebrity ads, PETA has held anti-fur demonstrations around the world featuring nude protesters in Hong Kong, Montréal, Moscow, Paris, Tokyo, and Milan.