Daniela Ruah

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Birth Name: Daniela Sofia Korn Ruah

Age: 37, born 2 December 1983

Born and residing in: United States

Height: 5' 9"

Relationship Status: Married

Partner: David Olsen

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Description: Daniela Sofia Korn Ruah (Listeni/dəniːɛlə ruːə/; born December 2, 1983) is an Luso-American actress best known for playing NCIS Special Agent Kensi Blye in the CBS series NCIS: Los Angeles. Ruah was born in Boston, Massachusetts, to the Portuguese citizens Dr. Moisés Carlos Bentes Ruah, and his wife, Katharina Lia Azancot Korn. Her father was a resident in Otolaryngology (Ear, Nose, and Throat) in the Boston University-Tufts University Program. When Ruah was five years old, her father completed his Residency, and the family returned to Portugal where her parents divorced and she attended an international, English-mediu Daniela Sofia Korn Ruah (Listeni/dəniːɛlə ruːə/; born December 2, 1983) is an Luso-American actress best known for playing NCIS Special Agent Kensi Blye in the CBS series NCIS: Los Angeles.

Ruah was born in Boston, Massachusetts, to the Portuguese citizens Dr. Moisés Carlos Bentes Ruah, and his wife, Katharina Lia Azancot Korn. Her father was a resident in Otolaryngology (Ear, Nose, and Throat) in the Boston University-Tufts University Program. When Ruah was five years old, her father completed his Residency, and the family returned to Portugal where her parents divorced and she attended an international, English-medium school.

Ruah's father is from a prominent Portuguese-based Sephardic Jewish family. Ruah's maternal grandfather was an Ashkenazi Jew who was born (1922) in what is now Wrocław, Poland. Ruah's maternal grandmother, Vera, was born in Lisbon, Portugal; Vera's father (Ruah's great-grandfather) was of half Sephardic Jewish and half Spanish ancestry, and Vera's mother (Ruah's great-grandmother) was a Ukrainian Ashkenazi Jew from Odessa.She is the great-grand niece of the captain Artur Carlos de Barros Basto.She also has distant ancestors from São Tomé and Príncipe.

Ruah attended St Julian's School in Carcavelos, near Lisbon. She earned a Bachelor of Arts from London Metropolitan University.

She was an active member of the Portuguese Jewish community in Lisbon, of which her father's second cousin, also a doctor, was the head. In 2003, the Jewish Telegraph Agency (JTA) ran a piece about an annual gathering of Jewish young people from 32 countries sponsored by European Union of Jewish Students. Ruah, then 19 and still living in Lisbon, was one of the students the JTA interviewed. She said, "I've never been around as many Jews in my entire life. Here, you don't feel the need to explain to people who you are. I am meeting people who eat kosher for the first time ever."

She has a distinguishable birthmark in her right eye, called the Nevus of Ota. Her left eye is hazel, giving her eyes a unique appearance as the other one is brown/blackish. Ruah speaks three languages fluently—Portuguese, English, and Spanish. ... (more)