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However, in season three we were introduced to a new, firey Mossad officer named Ziva David. Interestingly enough, Cote De Pablo, whose roots lie in Chile, never intended on becoming an actor. However, her aspirations changed when her mother, a Chilean talk show host, scored work on a television show in Miami, Florida. It was then her career in show business took off. After studying musical theatre at Carnegie Melon, the Ziva David actress almost ended up on Broadway. Ironically enough, Cote De Pablo read a scene with none other than Michael Weatherly, who, like his character DiNozzo, has a penchant for the ridiculous.

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This Israeli special operator made her first appearance on the long-running procedural's season 3 premiere, entitled "Kill Ari Part 1 ," and remained with the show through season After that season's finale, she took a long hiatus before popping up again in for a much-anticipated series homecoming. Over that respectable episode tenure, Ziva earned a lot of fans — including prominent rabbis, journalists and political scientists. The Jerusalem Post published an article that cheered Ziva as the most prominent Israeli character on American network TV, and quite a popular show at that. She's been praised as an important Jewish figure in the television landscape, one who provides much-needed exposure to American audiences lacking positive images of Israel and Israeli society.

According to Showbiz Cheat Sheet , she referred to joining the show as being "thrown into the most remarkable battlefield of sorts" and called it "such a gift. De Pablo's character David was one of the more interesting characters on the show, as she played an Israeli, ex-Mossad agent with a hard exterior. David also was fluent in several different languages, meaning de Pablo had to hit the books and learned Hebrew to play the role convincingly, as she revealed to "CBS This Morning" in