Cobie Smulders is a Canadian actress who rose to fame after she was cast in the hit TV series, How I Met Your Mother!
So let’s dive into some trivia and facts about her life and career!
- Her full name is Jacoba Francisca Maria Smulders
- She was born in April 3, 1982
- She is a Canadian actress and model
- She is best known for starring as Robin Scherbatsky in the CBS sitcom How I Met Your Mother (2005- 2014)
- Smulders has also portrayed S.H.I.E.L.D. agent Maria Hill in six Marvel Cinematic Universe films
- Beginning with The Avengers (2012)
- Smulders was born in Vancouver, British Columbia
- To a Dutch father and a British mother
- She was named after her great-aunt
- From whom she gained the nickname “Cobie”
- Smulders describes herself as “a fluent listener” of French
- She has four sisters: Melissa, Amy, Fiona, and Julie
- Smulders worked in modeling
- In her youth, Smulders aspired to be a marine biologist
- Smulders’ first acting role was as a guest in the Showtime science fiction series Jeremiah
- She has appeared in several television series since
- Including a recurring role on The L Word
- Her first permanent series role was in the short-lived ABC series Veritas: The Quest
- Which ran for one season
- After the cancellation of Veritas, Smulders was cast as television reporter Robin Scherbatsky on the CBS sitcom How I Met Your Mother in 2005
- Remaining on the show for its entire nine-season run
- In June 2010, Smulders made her Off-Broadway debut in Love, Loss, and What I Wore at The Westside Theatre
- Smulders played Maria Hill in the 2012 film The Avengers
- She received training from a Los Angeles SWAT team trainer to handle guns in order to portray the character
- Smulders reprised the role in three episodes of the television series Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
- And in the films Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014), Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015), Avengers: Infinity War (2018), and Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019)
- Joss Whedon has suggested he had considered her for the role of Wonder Woman in his draft of the eponymous film
- The film did not go into production
- Smulders did voice a Lego version of Wonder Woman in the 2014 animated film The Lego Movie
- It was the first time the Wonder Woman character had a theatrical film appearance
- In 2013, Smulders had a supporting role in the romance film Safe Haven
- She also starred in the comedy-drama Delivery Man and They Came Together
- In July 2015, it was reported that Smulders had exited the made-for-TV film Confirmation because she had broken her leg
- Zoe Lister-Jones was then confirmed to replace her in the role of Harriet Grant
- In 2016, she appeared in the comedy-drama The Intervention
- And with Tom Cruise in the action-adventure film Jack Reacher: Never Go Back
- In 2017, she played the recurring character “Mother” in the Netflix series A Series of Unfortunate Events
- From 2017 to 2019, she starred in the Netflix original series, Friends from College, in the main role of Lisa Turner
- Smulders became engaged to Taran Killam in January 2009
- They married on September 8, 2012, in Solvang, California
- The couple reside in New York City, New York
- They have two daughters together
- In 2015, Smulders revealed she had been diagnosed with ovarian cancer at age 25
- While shooting season three of How I Met Your Mother in 2007
- She had surgery to remove two tumors from her ovaries
- But the cancer had spread to her lymph nodes
- Resulting in the need for multiple operations over the course of two years
- Smulders filmed a PSA with Oceana
- An international ocean conservation organization
- This happenned in 2014
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