Cobie Smulders — biography, films, roles and trivia

Biography

Jacoba Francisca Maria "Cobie" Smulders (born April 3, 1982) is a Canadian actress. She is known for her lead role as Robin Scherbatsky in the CBS series How I Met Your Mother (2005–2014) and for her role as S.H.I.E.L.D. agent Maria Hill in the Marvel Cinematic Universe superhero film franchise, starting with The Avengers (2012).

Other Smulders films include Safe Haven (2013), The Lego Movie franchise (2014–2019), Results (2015), The Intervention (2016), and Jack Reacher: Never Go Back (2016). She also appeared 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 Stumptown (2019–2020), and the FX crime series Impeachment: American Crime Story (2021).

Smulders made her theater debut in the off-Broadway production of Nora Ephron's play Love, Loss, and What I Wore in 2010. She then made her Broadway debut in the revival of Noël Coward's comedy Present Laughter (2017), receiving a Theatre World Award.

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Filmography

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2005 How I Met Your Mother Robin Scherbatsky

2014 Captain America: The Winter Soldier Maria Hill

Interesting facts

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Kobi has British and Dutch roots.
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Full name is Jacoba Francisca Maria Smulders.
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In 2015, Cobie revealed that she had been diagnosed with ovarian cancer while filming the third season of How I Met Your Mother.
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Is a certified scuba diver.
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On May 16, 2009, Cobie Smulders had a daughter, Shaelyn.
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Her father is a dentist, and her stepmother works professionally in fundraising. Kobi also has four brothers and three sisters.