Cote de Pablo: Difference between revisions

She was born in [[Santiago]], Chile, to Francisco de Pablo and María Olga Fernández.<ref name="cbs">{{cite web|url=http://www.cbs.com/primetime/ncis/bio/cote_de_pablo/bio.php|title=CBS bio|website=[[CBS]] |access-date=October 30, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081101175610/http://www.cbs.com/primetime/ncis/bio/cote_de_pablo/bio.php|archive-date=November 1, 2008|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.latina.com/entertainment/tv/exclusive-cote-de-pablo-chilean-miners-rescue-moment-i-felt-proud-be-chilean |title=EXCLUSIVE: Cote de Pablo on the Chilean Miners Rescue: "In That Moment, I Felt Proud to be Chilean"|work=[[Latina (magazine)|Latina]] |access-date=May 31, 2013|date= November 4, 2010|author= Lee Hernandez}}</ref> She has a younger sister,<ref name=Mer>{{cite web |url=http://www.mer.cl/modulos/generacion/mobileASP/detailNew.asp?idNoticia=C19227720091006&strNamePage=YAPRY025200910061H.SWF&codCuerpo=745&codRev=886&iNumPag=025&strFecha=2009-10-06&iPage=1&tipoPantalla= |title= Detalle noticia|work= mer.cl|access-date=July 15, 2010|date= October 6, 2009|author= Ximena Urrejola|language= es}}</ref> Andrea, and a brother, Francisco, who works as a DJ.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.okmagazine.com/ |title=NCIS's Cote de Pablo visits Israel |author=Jacqueline Neiss |date=October 1, 2007 |work=OK! |page=72 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100722072855/http://www.okmagazine.com/ |archive-date=July 22, 2010 |access-date=July 15, 2010 |url-status=dead }}</ref> When de Pablo was 10 years old, her mother, María Olga Fernández, took a job in Miami, Florida, at a [[Spanish-language]] television network. While there, de Pablo attended [[Arvida Middle School]] and [[New World School of the Arts]], where she studied musical theatre. 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.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://latina.com/blogs/vivo-por-tivo/ncis-star-cote-de-pablo-pleasures-kicking-mens-behinds-tv |title='NCIS' Star Cote de Pablo, on the Pleasures of Kicking Men's Behinds on TV |publisher=latina.com |access-date=July 15, 2010|date= February 10, 2009|author= Lee Hernandez}}</ref> 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]].'' She graduated in 2000 with a [[Bachelor of Fine Arts]] in Musical Theater.<ref name=tvguide>{{cite web|title=Cote de Pablo: Biography|url=https://www.tvguide.com/celebrities/cote-de-pablo/bio/189721|publisher=CBS InteractiveIntBgcceractive Inc.|access-date=August 7, 2013}}</ref>