Birthday:
12 November 1979, Santiago, Chile
Height:
5' 7" (1.70 m)
Biography
Cote de Pablo was born in Santiago, Chile, but was
raised in Miami, Florida. She attended Arvida Middle School in Miami and
then Carnegie Mellon University. She graduated in 2000 after studying
music theater. Whilst at Carnegie Mellon she appeared in several theater
productions, including "Indiscretions", "The Fantasticks", "The House
of Bernarda Alba", "And The World Goes 'Round", "A Little Night Music"
and "Cloud Techtonics". Her first television role was hosting the 1994
show "Control" (1994), alongside "Entertainment Tonight" (1981) host
Carlos Ponce.
In 2001 Cote appeared on the New York City Public
Theater stage in the Shakespearean play "Measure for Measure", then
moved onto roles on the small screen such as "All My Children" (1970).
She had a small part on the long-running soap alongside Rudolf Martin,
who would later play her half-brother "Ari Haswari" on "NCIS" (2003).
She guest-starred as "Gina" in the ABC series "The Education of Max
Bickford" (2001), acting alongside Academy Award-winners Richard
Dreyfuss and Marcia Gay Harden, Golden Globe winner Regina Taylor,
veteran actress Helen Shaver and Katee Sackhoff. She also had roles in
"The $treet" (2000) and "When I Grow Up" (1990). In 2004 she starred in
the short-lived FOX series "The Jury" (2004), playing "Marguerite
Cisneros".
In 2005 she played "Dolores Fuentes" in the stage
musical "The Mambo Kings" and later was cast as Mossad officer Ziva
David in the hit series "NCIS" (2003) alongside Mark Harmon, Michael
Weatherly, Pauley Perrette, David McCallum, Sean Murray and Lauren
Holly.
As of 2008 she was living in Los Angeles, and spends her free time writing and performing original music
Filmography
Awards and nominations
- 2006: Won an Imagen Award for Best Supporting Actress in Television for NCIS[2]
- 2008: Nominated for an Imagen Award for Best Supporting Actress in Television for NCIS[13]
- 2008: Nominated for an ALMA Award for Outstanding Actress in a Drama Television Series for NCIS[2]
- 2009: Nominated for an ALMA Award for Outstanding Actress in a Drama Television Series for NCIS[14]
- 2009: Nominated for an Imagen Award for Best Supporting Actress in Television for NCIS[15]
- 2011: Nominated for an Imagen Award for Best Actress in Television for NCIS[16]
- 2011: Won an ALMA Award for Favorite Television Actress – Leading Role in a Drama for NCIS[17]
Music
Cote de Pablo performed a portion of
Tom Waits's song "Temptation" on the
NCIS episode, "
Last Man Standing", which first aired in the U.S. on September 23, 2008. Her full performance of the song, including some lyrics in
French, appears for the first time on
NCIS: The Official TV Soundtrack, which was released on February 10, 2009.
She is also the singer in Roberto Pitre's
Vivo En Vida where she sings "Samba In Prelude" and "Cry Me a River" and "Temptation".
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