Whilst at carnegie mellon she appeared in several theater productions, including indiscretions, the fantasticks, the house of bernarda alba, and the world goes 'round, a little night music and cloud techtonics.
Cote de pablo is most renowned for playing the lead role of ziva david of cbs networks television series, 'ncis.
Since she had studied musical theater in high school, so it was obvious that she continued on the same path.