cote de pablo was the actress that played ziva on ncis.
who is the actress that plays ziva on ncis?
cote de pablo
"shabbat shalom" is written by christopher j. waild and directed by dennis smith. executive producer gary glasberg began to consider possibly killing off ziva's father and vance's wife in the spring of 2012 and discussed the idea with vance's portrayer, rocky carroll. glasberg and carroll agreed that the storyline would provide a more in-depth storyline for vance, whose family life had always been relatively stable. glasberg also approached cote de pablo, who plays ziva, and discussed eli's role in the series and how killing ziva's last remaining family member would affect her character and personality. both paula newsome and michael nouri, who portray jackie vance and eli david respectively, were dismayed by the direction that the producers chose to take but decided to go forward with it and "give it everything they could".
shabbat shalom (ncis)
michael rivkin (merik tadros) first appears in the episode "last man standing" as a mossad officer. he is working with ziva david when she is on an undercover mission for the mossad in morocco (ziva having been dismissed from ncis in the previous episode). later on in the episode, he is seen in the office of the head of mossad, eli david, ziva's father, as ziva talks on the phone to gibbs. tony becomes suspicious of the man that ziva appears to be dating, and keeps trying to find out who he is. for example, in the episode "legend (part 1)", tony asks abby to check the records on rivkin. in the episode "legend (part 2)", michael appears as an undercover mossad agent who is investigating the same terrorists that ncis is investigating, killing them off one by one before ncis can apprehend them. he is asked to leave the u.s. by ncis agent in charge in los angeles, lara macy and later by dinozzo, both of them citing laws that prohibit foreign intelligence operatives from working in the united states. in the episode "semper fidelis", what appears to be an open and shut case of an immigrations, customs and enforcement agent killed by a terrorist is complicated by the presence of rivkin, who is still in the us visiting ziva. tony traces communication with the terrorist's computer to ziva's apartment, where he finds rivkin. after attempting to arrest an intoxicated rivkin for the murders of the ice agent and the terrorist handler ncis was tracking, a struggle ensues and tony shoots rivkin in self-defense. ziva later enters her apartment and attempts to help rivkin but he succumbs to his injuries and dies in hospital. finally, in the episode "aliyah", the relationship between rivkin and ziva comes out and this leads gibbs, leon vance, and tony to israel. there eli david accuses tony of killing rivkin out of jealousy and ziva, no longer able to trust tony, stays in israel.
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