Daniela Ruah

Daniela Ruah is one of those actors who quietly became the backbone of a long-running franchise without ever getting the credit she deserves. I've watched her as Kensi Blye on NCIS: Los Angeles since the very beginning, and what strikes me is how she turned what could have been a stock "tough female agent" role into someone genuinely layered — sharp, funny, emotionally real. Born in Boston, trained at London Metropolitan University, with deep Portuguese roots, she brings this effortless cosmopolitan energy to everything she does. The fact that she's also stepped behind the camera as a director on the show tells you she's playing a longer game than most. Fourteen-plus seasons in and she never mailed it in — that's rarer than people think.

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Name (English)

Daniela Ruah

Name (Japanese)

ダニエラ・ルーア

Reading

だにえら・るーあ

Born

December 2, 1983 (age 42)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Sagittarius / Boar

Origin

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Occupation

actor / television actor / model / film actor / film director

University

London Metropolitan University

• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/danielaruah/
• Xhttps://x.com/DanielaRuah
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniela%20Ruah
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%80%E3%83%8B%E3%82%A8%E3%83%A9%E3%83%BB%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BC%E3%82%A2
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q235491

Tags

• Massachusetts
• actor
• television actor
• model

Last updated

2026-06-02

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