--- name: "Daniela Ruah" canonical: "https://film.one/person/daniela-ruah" fi1m_id: "daniela-ruah" imdb_id: "nm2079733" tmdb_id: 221019 wikidata_id: "Q235491" roles: ["Director"] born: "2 December 1983" reviewed_on_fi1m: 2 average_as: "director" average_over: 1 updated: "2026-09-23T13:36:04.972418+00:00" licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL." --- # Daniela Ruah ## Identity Daniela Ruah - **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/daniela-ruah - **Type:** Person - **Fi1m ID:** daniela-ruah - **IMDb ID:** nm2079733 - **TMDB ID:** 221019 - **Wikidata ID:** Q235491 - **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniela_Ruah, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q235491, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2079733/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/221019 Director. Born 2 December 1983 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. ## Details - **Work:** Director - **Born:** 2 December 1983, Boston, Massachusetts, USA - **Active:** 2003–2010 - **Also known as:** Даниэла Руа, دانیلا روا - **Titles on Fi1m:** 2: 1 acting, 1 directing - **Fi1m score by decade:** 2000s 66 (1), 2010s 65 (1) - **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniela_Ruah, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q235491, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2079733/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/221019 ## Streaming the US now - **Apple TV:** [*NCIS*](https://film.one/tv/ncis.md) (66) For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country. ## Biography Daniela Ruah is an American-Portuguese actress and director. Born in Boston, Massachusetts, she grew up in Portugal and trained at St Julian's School, London Metropolitan University (BA in Performing Arts) and the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute in New York. She is best known for portraying NCIS Special Agent Kensi Blye in the series *NCIS: Los Angeles* (2009–2023) and crossover appearances in *NCIS* (2003) and *Hawaii Five-0* (2010). She has also appeared in the film *Red Tails* (2012). Ruah has directed episodes of *NCIS: Los Angeles*, *NCIS*, *NCIS: Hawaiʻi* and *The Equalizer*. She is married to David Paul Olsen, brother of her *NCIS: Los Angeles* co-star Eric Christian Olsen. *Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.* ## On Fi1m (2) ### Performed in (1) - *Hawaii Five-0* (2010), Fi1m 65, as Kensi Blye — [page](https://film.one/tv/hawaii-five-0.md) ### Directed (1) — the average rests on these - *NCIS* (2003), Fi1m 66, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/ncis.md) ## Complete filmography (22) Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page. - *My Type* (2026), Director - *The Hike* (2025), Actor - *The Scream* (2025), series, as Vitória Neves - *Broken Spies* (2025), series, as Maria João Mascarenhas - *Turn of the Tide* (2023), series, as Fátima - *Os Vivos, o Morto e o Peixe Frito* (2022), Director - *Contado por Mulheres* (2022), series, Director - *NCIS: Hawaiʻi* (2021), series, Director - *The Equalizer* (2021), series, Director - *The Spy* (2020), series, as Maria João Mascarenhas - *Red Tails* (2012), as Sofia - *Hawaii Five-0* (2010), series, as Kensi Blye — Fi1m 65, [page](https://film.one/tv/hawaii-five-0.md) - *NCIS: Los Angeles* (2009), series, as Kensi Blye · Director - *Tu e Eu* (2006), series, as Daniela Pinto - *Canaviais* (2006), as Margarida - *Dei-te Quase Tudo* (2005), series, as Rita - *NCIS* (2003), series, as Kensi Blye · Director — Fi1m 66, [page](https://film.one/tv/ncis.md) - *Filha do Mar* (2001), series, as Constança Valadas - *Querida Mãe* (2001), as Zezinha - *Jardins Proibidos* (2000), series, as Sara - *...And Then She Was Gone*, as Sharon Lemke · Executive Producer - *Nowhere Boy*, Director, Producer ## Gallery - ![Daniela Ruah](https://film.one/media/person/1318762/gallery-3c462c2523b1.jpg) Daniela Ruah — Frantogian, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ee/Daniela_Ruah_-_Monte-Carlo_Television_Festival.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled) - ![Hosts of the Eurovision Song Contest 2018: Daniela Ruah, Sílvia Alberto, Catarina Furtado and Filomena Cautela](https://film.one/media/person/1318762/gallery-c7727e365e01.jpg) Hosts of the Eurovision Song Contest 2018: Daniela Ruah, Sílvia Alberto, Catarina Furtado and Filomena Cautela — Roger Dewayne Barkley, EuroVisionary, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Eurovision_2018_Hosts.jpg/1280px-Eurovision_2018_Hosts.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Hosts of the Eurovision Song Contest 2018: Daniela Ruah, Catarina Furtado, Sílvia Alberto and Filomena Cautela](https://film.one/media/person/1318762/gallery-f00d73d2933b.jpg) Hosts of the Eurovision Song Contest 2018: Daniela Ruah, Catarina Furtado, Sílvia Alberto and Filomena Cautela — Roger Dewayne Barkley, EuroVisionary, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2f/Eurovision_2018_Hosts_02.jpg/1280px-Eurovision_2018_Hosts_02.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Hosts of the Eurovision Song Contest 2018: Daniela Ruah, Sílvia Alberto, Catarina Furtado and Filomena Cautela](https://film.one/media/person/1318762/gallery-3e11abcab7de.jpg) Hosts of the Eurovision Song Contest 2018: Daniela Ruah, Sílvia Alberto, Catarina Furtado and Filomena Cautela — Dewayne Barkley, EuroVisionary, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3c/Eurovision_2018_Hosts_03.jpg/1280px-Eurovision_2018_Hosts_03.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Daniela Ruah](https://film.one/media/person/1318762/gallery-6dd6fba02ade.jpg) Daniela Ruah — Image via TMDB - ![Daniela Ruah](https://film.one/media/person/1318762/gallery-36504e5be63e.jpg) Daniela Ruah — Image via TMDB - ![Daniela Ruah](https://film.one/media/person/1318762/gallery-ac89fb37cac0.jpg) Daniela Ruah — Image via TMDB - ![The cast of NCIS: Los Angeles (2012)](https://film.one/media/person/1318762/gallery-84383bf33ad2.jpg) The cast of NCIS: Los Angeles (2012) — Greg Hernandez, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/55/The_cast_of_NCISLA.jpg/1280px-The_cast_of_NCISLA.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) --- © Fi1m Ltd. 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