A Chilean-American actress and singer Maria Jose de Pablo Fernandez professionally known as Cote de Pablo is famous as Ziva David in the CBS television series NCIS. She was born on November 12, 1979, in Santiago, Chile and at the age of ten shifted to the United States where Cote stepped up to pursue her dream of acting. She was raised by her parents Francisco de Pablo and Maria Olga Fernandez with her younger sister, Andrea, and brother, Francisco-a disc jockey. At age of 10, she was brought in the United States by her mom as she got a job at a Spanish-language television network in Miami, Florida. There she attended musical theatre in Arvida Middle School and New World School of Arts. In fifth grade, she changed her name from Maria Jose de Pablo Fernandez to Cote de Pablo as people felt difficult to pronounce her first name ‘Maria Jose’. She is highly popular as the NCIS actress as the role became a life-changing point in her bio. The actress has been able to earn a jaw-breaking net worth along with huge fan following. The beautiful actress is not married yet we hope she gets a nice husband in future.
Bio
Fans and followers of this beautiful actress, de Pablo always want to know about her bio. Hosting episodes of Latin American talk show Control with the former host of Entertainment Tonight, Carlos Ponce at just 15, she started her career in entertainment industry. After working in a number of television roles, in 2005 Cote got the chance to portray the main character of Ziva David on NCIS. In 2011, she won ALMA Award for that role and during season 10 ( 2012-13 ), NCIS became the most watched television program in whole US as well as the chemistry between de Pablo ( Ziva David ) and Michael Weatherly ( Anthony DiNozzo ) was loved by all critiques. She studied music and theatre attending Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and performed on several plays like The Fantasticks, The House of Bernarda Alba, Indirections, etc. After appearing on many TV shows and commercials, she got enrolled with NCIS (TV series) in 2005 to play the character of Ziva David, an Israel Mossad who turned into NCIS agent. In this police procedural drama, she portrays the lover of Anthony DiNozzo, actually Michael Weatherly who is an American actor, producer, and director.
Age and Body Measurements
Now in 2017, her age is 37 years according to her birth date and she still prevails in the media sector. Her sun sign is Scorpio and she has black hair plus dark brown eyes. Her height is 5 ft 7 in or 170 cm and weight is 64 kg or 141 pounds. She is slim with the body measurement of 36-29-35 which makes her alluring, and bra size is 34 with cup B. Her dress plus shoe size is 7 and 10 (US) respectively.
Cancer
De Pablo was worried about cervical cancer as her grandmother died of it when she was 21 years old. But after the result of Pap test, she did not have cervical cancer. Currently, she is involved in awareness programs about gynecologic cancers and encouraging women to know about the signs of them associating with Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) through new TV, radio and print public service announcement (PSA) from CDC.
Personal Life
The net worth of de Pablo is estimated to be of $4 million. About her personal life, she was in a long-term relationship with actor Diego Serrano since 2000. They were really friends and de Pablo was happy with him that she was seen walking, shopping with him in Paris, France. However, after 15 years this beautiful couple broke up in 2015. There is no information about her affairs with others, about her, she is still unmarried and waiting for a perfect husband.