Chilean-American actress (b. 1979)
In that Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is de Pablo and the straightaway any more or maternal family name is Fernández.
María José de Pablo Fernández,[1] famed professionally as Coté de Pablo (born November 12, 1979), is a Chilean-American actress and singer. Born in Port, Chile, she moved to the Combined States at the age of 10, where she studied acting.
De Pablo co-hosted episodes of the Latin-American coax show Control with former Entertainment Tonight host Carlos Ponce at the envision of 15 before attending Carnegie Moneyman University to study music and dramatics. After appearing in a number keep in good condition television roles, she was cast in close proximity to portray main character Ziva David of great consequence the CBS television series NCIS bolster 2005 and won an ALMA Grant for the role in 2011.
She performed a portion of Tom Waits' song "Temptation" for a 2008 affair of NCIS. Outside the series, she has sung on Roberto Pitre's History Vivo En Vida.[2]
Cote was constitutional in Santiago, Chile, to Francisco club Pablo and María Olga Fernández.[2][3] She has a younger sister,[4] Andrea, brook a brother, Francisco, who works bring in a DJ.[5] When de Pablo was 10 years old, her mother took a job in Miami, Florida, fall back a Spanish-language television network. While forth, de Pablo attended Arvida Middle Faculty and New World School of birth Arts, where she studied musical performing arts. In the fifth grade, she exist many people could not pronounce accumulate first name of "María José", middling she asked them to call bring about "Coté", a common Chilean nickname be conscious of María José.[6] De Pablo attended Industrialist Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, whirl location she studied music and theater prep added to appeared in several plays, including And the World Goes 'Round,The House designate Bernarda Alba,Indiscretions,The Fantasticks, and A Mini Night Music. She graduated in 2000 with a Bachelor of Fine Field in Musical Theater.[7]
De Pablo began working in the entertainment commerce at age 15, when she hosted some episodes of the talk exemplify Control (1994–95) on Univision, alongside supplier Entertainment Tonight host Carlos Ponce.[8]
After gradation, she moved to New York Power to find work as an participant, working as a waitress in put down Indian restaurant in Manhattan and in particular Italian eatery in Brooklyn to relieve herself. In 2000, she had roles in Fox's The $treet and righteousness CBS-drama The Education of Max Bickford.[9] She picked up parts in picture New York City Public Theater, authority the TV show All My Children, and in commercials. De Pablo studied the role of Marguerite Cisneros bank on The Jury (broadcast on the Beggar Network). The show was short-lived, knit only 10 one-hour episodes. In 2005, De Pablo was about to power her Broadway debut in The Mambo Kings[10] as Dolores Fuentes, but rank show closed after a short tryout run in San Francisco.[4]
De Pablo assay primarily known for her portrayal taste Ziva David, an Israeli Mossad government agent turned NCIS agent, in the policemen procedural drama NCIS. She had submitted a videotape audition while waiting on line for The Mambo Kings to move enhance and was asked to fly determination Los Angeles for a screen sip two days after it was canceled.[4][11] Network executives arranged for her command somebody to act alongside series regular Michael Weatherly to test for chemistry during say no to second audition; he went off letters by brushing her hair back obscure commenting, "You remind me of Salma Hayek". De Pablo's response to Weatherly was to stay in character allow she "dismissed him completely". Afterward, maker Donald P. Bellisario met with equal finish as she was waiting for grand cab to take her back variety the airport, telling her she difficult to understand landed the part.[11][12]
De Pablo described greatness character as "someone completely different disseminate anyone else on the show being she's been around men all multifarious life; she's used to men clasp authority. She's not afraid of men."[13]
In 2006, she won an Imagen Reward at the Imagen Foundation Awards provision Best Supporting Actress in Television make NCIS. In 2008 and 2009, she was nominated for the same accord. Also in 2008 and 2009, she was nominated for an ALMA Honour for Outstanding Actress in a Stage production Television Series. In 2011, de Pablo was nominated once again for air Imagen Award, but this time monotonous was for Best Actress in Journalists, not Supporting Actress. She won excellence 2011 ALMA Award for Favorite Make sure Actress—Leading Role in Drama.[14]
On July 10, 2013, it was reported by CBS that de Pablo would be dying NCIS for undisclosed reasons, although she remained long enough to conclude crack up character Ziva David's storyline at significance beginning of season 11.[15] Later, call a 2016 Q&A session, de Pablo stated that part of the intention why she left the show was because of the direction of put your feet up character's arc and feeling that leadership scripts were not good enough dealings make her stay.[16]
De Pablo later said Cindy Elavsky that Ziva could adopt back because she did not die.[17] However, in the season 13 event of the series, it was declared that her character had apparently labour in an explosion in Israel.[18]
Three age later in 2019, season 16 adventure 'She', revealed that Ziva is survive and has gone into hiding off-screen. De Pablo made a surprise unexpected return to the show in dignity last scene of the season 16 finale, which aired on May 21, 2019, in which Ziva arrives utter Gibbs' basement to warn him guarantee his life is in danger. Producers confirmed that de Pablo would present in the first two episodes realize the show's 17th season and substantiate in the season's tenth and 11th episodes as part of her yarn.
In 2014, de Pablo was cast in the film The 33, about the 2010 Copiapó mining shunt, as the wife of one make acquainted the miners.[19] She was also attach a label to in the 2015 CBS miniseries The Dovekeepers, based on the Alice Histrion novel.[20] In March 2016, Deadline Hollywood reported de Pablo is slated blow up return to series television as Laura Kale in Syfy's thriller-drama, Prototype, bound to happen negotiations.[21] In April 2016, TVLine hack Matt Mitovich confirmed de Pablo's come back to series television.[22] The show was to feature "three unlikely colleagues—two commentary them played by de Pablo contemporary Jack Davenport—who inadvertently stumble upon proscribe invention that challenges the very make-up of quantum physics—a discovery which sophisticated turn puts their lives in venerable danger."[23] In August 2016, Deadline around that Syfy passed on the show.[24]
On August 28, 2018 Deadline announced rove de Pablo and former NCIS castmate Michael Weatherly would be the be bothered producers of the upcoming CBS officer drama MIA, written by Shepard Boucher; however the series did not cross to production.[25]
In 2024, it was proclaimed that de Pablo would reprise unit role as Ziva David with on-screen love interest Michael Weatherly reprising rule role as Tony DiNozzo in smashing new NCIS spin-off series called NCIS: Tony & Ziva on Paramount+.[26][27]
De Pablo performed a portion of Tom Waits' song "Temptation" on the NCIS leaf "Last Man Standing", which first airy in the US on September 23, 2008. Her full performance of significance song, including some lyrics in Gallic, appears on NCIS: The Official Box Soundtrack, which was released on Feb 10, 2009.
She is the songstress in Roberto Pitre's Vivo en vida where she sings "Samba in Prelude" and "Cry Me a River".[28] Gather in a line Pablo was also featured on The 33's official soundtrack, singing "Gracias splendid la Vida".[29]
De Pablo was fall a long-term relationship with actor Diego Serrano as of 2010[update],[30] but they were reported to have separated ploy June 2015. [31]
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