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María José de Pablo Fernández, better known as Coté de Pablo (born November 12, 1979), is a Chilean-American actress and recording artist. De Pablo has won an ALMA Award for her role as NCIS Special Agent Ziva David in the television series NCIS. She has also embarked on a career as a songwriter and vocalist. De Pablo was born in Santiago, Chile, to an upper-class Catholic family. She has a younger sister, Andrea, and a brother who works as a deejay. In the 5th grade, she found many people could not properly pronounce her first name of "Maria José" so she asked them to call her Coté... MORE

María José de Pablo Fernández, better known as Coté de Pablo (born November 12, 1979), is a Chilean-American actress and recording artist. De Pablo has won an ALMA Award for her role as NCIS Special Agent Ziva David in the television series NCIS. She has also embarked on a career as a songwriter and vocalist. De Pablo was born in Santiago, Chile, to an upper-class Catholic family. She has a younger sister, Andrea, and a brother who works as a deejay. In the 5th grade, she found many people could not properly pronounce her first name of "Maria José" so she asked them to call her Coté (a common Chilean nickname for María José). When de Pablo was ten, her mother, María Olga Fernández, received a job in Miami, Florida, at a Spanish-speaking television network. There, de Pablo attended Arvida Middle School and New World School of the Arts where she studied musical theater. She then attended Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where she studied music and theater and appeared in several plays. These aforementioned plays include: And The World Goes 'Round, The House of Bernarda Alba, Indiscretions, The Fantasticks, and A Little Night Music. She graduated in 2000. After LESS