#Cote de pablo married michael weatherly trial
#Cote de pablo married michael weatherly series

De Pablo's response to Weatherly was to stay in character and she 'dismissed him completely'.

#Cote de pablo married michael weatherly series

Network executives arranged for her to act alongside series regular Michael Weatherly to test for chemistry during her second audition he went off script by brushing her hair back and commenting, 'You remind me of Salma Hayek'. She had submitted a videotape audition while waiting for The Mambo Kings to move forward and was asked to fly to Los Angeles for a screen test two days after it was canceled. NCIS ĭe Pablo is primarily known for her portrayal of Ziva David, an Israeli Mossad officer turned NCIS agent, in the police procedural drama NCIS.

#Cote de pablo married michael weatherly trial

In 2005, De Pablo was about to make her Broadway debut in The Mambo Kings as Dolores Fuentes, but the show closed after a short trial run in San Francisco. The show was short-lived, screening only 10 one-hour episodes. De Pablo played the role of Marguerite Cisneros in The Jury (broadcast on the Fox Network). She picked up parts in the New York City Public Theater, on the TV show All My Children, and in commercials. In 2000, she had roles in Fox's The $treet and the CBS-drama The Education of Max Bickford. Īfter graduation, she moved to New York City to find work as an actress, working as a waitress in an Indian restaurant in Manhattan and an Italian eatery in Brooklyn to support herself. Acting career Early roles ĭe Pablo began working in the entertainment industry at age 15, when she hosted some episodes of the talk show Control (1994–95) on Univision, alongside former Entertainment Tonight host Carlos Ponce. She graduated in 2000 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Musical Theater. De Pablo attended Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where she studied music and theater and appeared in several plays, including And the World Goes 'Round, The House of Bernarda Alba, Indiscretions, The Fantasticks, and A Little Night Music. In the fifth grade, she found many people could not pronounce her first name of 'María José', so she asked them to call her 'Coté', a common Chilean nickname for María José. While there, de Pablo attended Arvida Middle School and New World School of the Arts, where she studied musical theatre. When de Pablo was 10 years old, her mother, María Olga Fernández, took a job in Miami, Florida at a Spanish-language television network. She has a younger sister, Andrea, and a brother, Francisco, who works as a DJ. She was born in Santiago, Chile, to Francisco de Pablo and María Olga Fernández.