Ziva, aka Cote de Pablo, considered it was time to retire her NCIS badge in season 11 and go to her home country of Israel. Let’s know what’s the reason behind this.
María José de Pablo Fernández is also known as Cote de Pablo is a Chilean-American actress and singer. Further, the passionate star moved to the United States at ten, where she studied acting.
Further, De Pablo is best known for co-hosting episodes of the Latin-American talk show Control with former Entertainment Tonight host Carlos Ponce at 15 before following Carnegie Mellon University to study music and theatre.
Likewise, after emerging in many television roles, Pablo started to be recognized widely after she portrayed the main character Ziva David in the CBS television series NCIS in 2005 and won an ALMA Award for the role in 2011.
Why Did Cote de Pablo Leave NCIS?
Social media is flooded with the questions asked by fans regarding Ziva aka Cote de Pablo’s departure from NCIS. Therefore, we share every detail related to her leaving the show.
As we all know, Ziva has contributed eight years featuring on the show as she realized that it was time to hang up her NCIS badge in season 11 and return to her home country of Israel.
However, fans were shocked to see her two years in 2020, though when it was believed Ziva had been murdered in a mortar attacking episode 11. As per the sources, Actress de Pablo said she wouldn’t come back unless something “wonderful” was composed for her, and in season 16, Ziva was brought back from the dead at the end of Season 16.
More to this, it was also revealed that Ziva hadn’t been killed but instead had pretended her death as enemies looking to hurt Ziva and her family.
According to the Showbiz Cheat Sheet, NCIS producers once promised that the fan’s favorite Ziva would play an important part in the premiere, so she came back and amazed viewers. Pablo showed up at Gibbs’ (Mark Harmon) house to warn him about a threat at the end of episode 16.
Pablo once revealed that the major reason behind her departure from NCIS was that political scripts were not good enough. She chose rather go home.
Who Replaces Cote de Pablo?
After Cote de Pablo’s come back in season, 16 fans were shocked and happy to see her back in the cast. Following her exit from the series, newcomer Ellie Bishop (Emily Wickersham) entered the cast as a new NSA Analyst, as per
Although Ziva was part of the main cast for eight years until she was killed off-screen in season 13.