Cote de Pablo
Cote de Pablo was born in Santiago, Chile, but was raised in Miami. Cote attended Arvida Middle School in Miami, Florida, and later in life attended Carnegie Mellon University. She graduated in 2000 after studying music theater. While at Carnegie Mellon, Cote 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, alongside Entertainment Tonight host Carlos Ponce. In 2001, Cote appeared on the New York City Public Theater stage in the Shakespeare play, Measure for Measure, then moved onto roles on the small screen such as All My Children. Cote had a small role on the long-running soap alongside Rudolf Martin who would later play her half-brother Ari Haswari in NCIS. Cote became a guest star as Gina in the CBS series, The Education of Max Bickford, acting alongside Academy Award winners Richard Dreyfuss and Marcia Gay Harden, Golden Globe winner Regina Taylor, veteran actress Helen Shaver and actress Katee Sackhoff. She also had roles in The Street and When I Grow Up. In 2004, she starred in the short lived FOX series, The Jury playing Marguerite Cisneros.
In 2005 she made her Broadway debut as Dolores Fuentes in The Mambo Kings, and has joined the cast of the hit CBS navy crime series, NCIS, as Mossad Officer Ziva David alongside Mark Harmon, Michael Weatherly, Pauley Perrette, David McCallum, and Sean Murray. She has prided herself in playing the character, which she describes as “completely different from anyone else on the show” because of her familiarity with working amongst men. Aside from acting, Cote de Pablo has also ventured into other fields. She is known to spend her free time composing and performing music of her own.
In an interview she had with Prevention Magazine published in January 2011, Cote shared that she is in a "long term relationship" with [actor] Deigo Serrano and she's very happy.
When asked, during the interview, what she sees her thirties being like, she responded, "I'd like to travel some more. And to have some adventures. To me, the world is an exciting place. I always tell my mom, 'My gosh, when I see you in the next lifetime, how much fun are we going to have? But because she's Catholic, she just turns her head away. She doesn't believe in any of what I think.
To which Prevention inquired, "So you believe in reincarnation?"
Cote responded, "Yes, I do. But it's not so much, 'Let's talk about our past lives.' No. I just know that I'm going to be here again. One lifetime is too short to purify my soul. It's going to take a couple of tries."
Prevention responded with, "You sound like a Buddhist."
Cote said, "I don't really label myself as anything. I have a lot of friends who don't believe in God. They say to me, 'How come you believe in God?' I go, 'How can you not?' I have moments where I've seen the majestic beauty in nature and the overwhelming perfection of it. To me, there's nothing closer to God than that. It's not something that I can explain. it's just something that you either feel or you don't. So I know there is a God. To me, there is a very big God out there. Hopefully I'll get closer to him/her at some point."
Please make praying for Cote a priority on your prayer list for the next two weeks. Let's pray that that big God -- our Heavenly Father -- will steer Cote toward Jesus Christ and directly into the situation she needs to come into a personal relationship with Him for all of eternity.
--Heidi