When this Latina looker joined the cast of
NCIS at the start of its third season, she made quite a first impression as a multilingual Israeli super agent, capable of killing her own kin if necessary. But in real life, the Chile-born/Miami-raised De Pablo is a much more light-hearted lady, who cohosted the Spanish-language talk show
Control as a teen and studied musical theater at Carnegie Mellon University. She appeared on stage and in the soap
All My Children before landing her first series gig on the short-lived courtroom drama
The Jury.
After a brief stint in the musical
The Mambo Kings on the West Coast,
she snagged her signature
NCIS role, for which she won a 2006 Imagen Foundation Award and was nominated for ALMA Awards in 2008 and 2009.
Cote De Pablo Fast Facts:
- Though born in Chile, de Pablo plays an Israeli Mossad agent on CBS crime drama NCIS, where she is frequently required to speak in Hebrew.
- Writes and performs original music in her spare time.
- Cote De Pablo Relationships:
- Maria Olga Fernandez - Mother
- Francisco de Pablo - Father
- Andrea - Sister
- Francisco - Brother
- Diego Serrano - Significant Other
- College:
- Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA (BA in Musical Theater, 2000)