Jacoba Fransisca Maria "Cobie" Smulders

Who is Jacoba Fransisca Maria "Cobie" Smulders? [1] The world knows her as Cobie Smulders, she is a Canadian actress and former international model, best known for her current role as Robin Scherbatsky on the CBS television series How I Met Your Mother.

Smulders was born 3 April 1982 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada)to a Dutch father and a British mother. She was named after her Dutch grandaunt, 'Jacoba', for which she gained the nickname 'Cobie'.[2]

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. She finished high school in 2000 at Lord Byng Secondary School with high honors, being voted "Most Respected". Discovered by a modeling agency in her teens, she started to model internationally, including in locations such as New York City, the Caribbean, Paris, Japan, Milan, Greece, Africa and Germany.[3]
She can speak French fluently,[4] and currently resides in Los Angeles, California.[5]

On November 26, 2008, TV Guide reported that Smulders and boyfriend Taran Killam are expecting their first child in the spring of 2009. Her How I Met Your Mother co-star, Buffy the Vampire Slayer alum Alyson Hannigan, is also pregnant.[6] [7] On January 28, 2009, it was announced that Smulders and Killam are engaged.[8]


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 was 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. more