Daniela Ruah

 Daniela Sofia Korn Ruah (born on December 2 1983) is an American and Portuguese actor and director who is best known for playing NCIS Special Agent Kensi Blye in the CBS police procedural television show NCIS The Los Angeles.Ruah was born in Boston, U.S., to Jewish parents from Portugal and her mother is an otologist while her father is an ENT surgeon.When Ruah was 5, the family moved back to Portugal where she was educated at St Julian's School and, when she was 16, started acting in Telenovelas. She won a Portuguese-television dance competition.Ruah moved to the U.K at the age of 18 and earned a Bachelor of Arts in performing arts from London Metropolitan University. She returned to Portugal to pursue acting, and then in 2007, she moved to New York City for a Bachelor of Arts in performing arts from the Lee Strasberg Theatre. Her father is a Portuguese-Jewish, as is her mother who is Jewish.