Maria José de Pablo Fernández, plus connu sous le nom de Cote de Pablo, est une actrice américaine d'origine chilienne. Elle est notamment connue pour son rôle de l'agent du NCIS Ziva David dans la érie télévisée NCIS.

Elle est ée le 12 novembre 1979 à Santiago, au CHili mais elle a grandi à Miami, en Floride, où elle a été élevée par sa mère Maria Olga Fernández, qui évolu dans le domaine de la télévision espagnole.

En effet, alors qu'elle avait dix ans, sa mère obtint un emploi en relation avec Telemundo, c'est pourquoi elle et sa famille emménagèremt à Miami.

Elle a donc suivi ses études dans cette ville, à l'Arvida Middle School of Miami, avant de trouver sa voie et de décider de faire carrière dans la comédie. En ce sens, elle a suivi sa formation au Carnegie MellonUniversityde Pittsburg où elle étudia le theâtre, la composition et la musique de chambre. Elle y obtint un diplôme en 2000 (BFA en Acting and Musical Theater). Elle parle couramment l'anglais et l'espagnol, maitrise le français, le portugais et l'italien.
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María José de Pablo Fernández better known as Cote de Pablo (born November 12, 1979) is a Chilean-American actress and recording artist. De Pablo has been nominated for the ALMA Award, landing a permanent role as the Israeli federal 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[2] Roman Catholic family. She has two younger sisters,[3] one named Andrea. In grade 5, she found many people could not properly pronounce her first name of "Maria José" so she asked them to call her Coté (which is a common nickname for María José in Chile).[5] 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. They include: And The World Goes 'Round, The House of Bernarda Alba, Indiscretions, The Fantasticks, and A Little Night Music. She graduated in 2000.

After 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. She picked up parts in the New York City Public Theater, in the show All My Children and commercials. In 2005, de Pablo was about to make her Broadway debut in The Mambo Kings in 2005[2] as Dolores Fuentes, but the show closed after a short tryout run in San Francisco. Two days after The Mambo Kings closed, de Pablo was asked to audition for NCIS.