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Cobie Smulders Profile |
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Birth Date: April 3, 1982
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Birth Place: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Birth Name: Jacoba Fransisca Maria Smulders
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Height: 5'9"
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Biography |
Cobie Smulders is an actress and
former international model. Hailing from Vancouver, she can
speak French fluently. She currently resides in Los Angeles,
California.
As a child Smulders wanted to be either a doctor or a marine
biologist but started to gain an interest in acting in high
school, appearing in several school productions. Discovered
by a modelling agency in her teens, she started to model
internationally, including in locations such as Paris,
Japan, Milan, Greece, and Germany.
She finished high school in 2000 with high honors, being
voted "Most Respected", and continued modelling for a few
years before settling in Los Angeles to pursue an acting
career.
Her first role was as a guest in the Showtime sci-fi series
Jeremiah, and she has guest starred in numerous television
series since, including a recurring part in The L Word.
Her first permanent series role was in the short-lived ABC
series Veritas: The Quest; her second would be the series
for which she is most well-known, the CBS sitcom How I Met
Your Mother, where she plays television reporter Robin
Scherbatsky, also a Canadian.
Joss Whedon has joked that she was his choice for the lead
role in the film adaption of Wonder Woman after he left the
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Other
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Former model.
Was voted "Most Respected" by her classmates her senior year
in high school.
Participated in various sports as a teenager including
tennis, swimming and soccer.
On "How I Met Your Mother" (2005) she plays a Canadian, and
in real life she is a Canadian.
While announcing his departure from the long-awaited Wonder
Woman (2009) feature, Joss Whedon joked that she was his
choice to play Princess Diana of Themiscyra (WW herself). |
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since October 25, 2007