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Jacoba Francisca Maria "Cobie" Smulders born April 3, 1982 is a Canadian actress. She is best known for her starring role as Robin Scherbatsky on the CBS series How I Met Your Mother (2005–2014) and as S.H.I.E.L.D. agent Maria Hill in the Marvel Cinematic Universe superhero franchise, beginning with the film The Avengers (2012).
Smulders' other film appearances include Safe Haven (2013), The Lego Movie franchise (2014–2019), Results (2015), The Intervention (2016) and Jack Reacher: Never Go Back (2016). She also starred in the Netflix comedy drama series A Series of Unfortunate Events (2017), the Netflix comedy series Friends from College (2017–2019), the ABC crime drama series Stumptown (2019–2020) and the FX true crime series Impeachment: American Crime Story (2021).
Smulders made her theater debut in the 2010 Off-Broadway production of Nora Ephron's play Love, Loss, and What I Wore. She then made her Broadway debut in a revival of the Noël Coward comedy Present Laughter (2017) and earned a Theatre World Award.
Smulders was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, to a Dutch father and a British mother. She was raised in White Rock, British Columbia and later moved to the affluent West Point Grey neighbourhood to attend high school at Lord Byng Secondary School. She was named after her great-grandmother, from whom she received the nickname "Cobie".Smulders describes herself as a "fluent listener" of French. She has four sisters.Smulders was also a member of the Girl Guides of Canada as a child, participating as a Brownie (the Girl Guides program for girls aged 7 to 10).In her youth, Smulders aspired to be a marine biologist She developed an interest in theatre during high school and briefly studied at the University of Victoria before returning to acting.
In January 2009, Smulders became engaged to Taran Killam after meeting him at a mutual friend's party four years earlier. They married on September 8, 2012, in Solvang, California. They have two daughters. In January 2025, Smulders and Killam's home in Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles, is destroyed by a wildfire.
In 2015, Smulders revealed that she was diagnosed with ovarian cancer at age 25 while filming 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. In August 2019, Smulders revealed that she was in remission .
In 2020, Smulders announced that she had become an American citizen, while still retaining her Canadian citizenship. She said that part of her motivation to become a U.S. citizen was due to the 2020 presidential election .
She is a fan of the Vancouver Canucks
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