Cobie Smulders Profile, Age, Height, Net Worth, Affairs, Biography & More

Cobie Smulders is a Canadian actress. She is known for her starring role as Robin Scherbatsky in the CBS sitcom How I Met Your Mother (2005–2014) and as S.H.I.E.L.D. agent Maria Hill in the Marvel Cinematic Universe superhero movies The Avengers (2012), Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014), Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015), Avengers: Infinity War (2018), Avengers: Endgame (2019), and Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019), as well as the ABC action drama series Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D (2013–2015), the Disney+ animated anthology series What If…? (2021), and the upcoming Disney+ limited series Secret Invasion (2023).

Smulders’ other films include Safe Haven (2013), They Came Together (2014), Results (2015), 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 became engaged to Taran Killam in January 2009 after meeting him at a mutual friend’s party four years earlier. They married on September 8, 2012, in Solvang, California. The couple resides in Pacific Palisades, California. They have two daughters, born in 2009 and 2015.

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. In August 2019, Smulders revealed she is in remission.

In 2020, Smulders announced that she became an American citizen, while still retaining her Canadian citizenship. She stated that part of her motivation to become an American citizen was due to the 2020 presidential election.

Smulders filmed a public service announcement with Oceana, an international ocean-conservation organization, in 2014. In May 2020, she released a clip parodying “Let’s Go to the Mall”, a song her character performed on How I Met Your Mother, titled ” Let’s All Stay at Home”, to encourage the public to enforce COVID-19 lockdowns. Smulders also encouraged fans to donate to Save the Children, Canada Helps and the Daily Bread Food Bank amidst the pandemic.

In September 2020, she promoted cleaning up refuse and litter with National CleanUp Day, Clean Trails and Planet Oat. “And I’m hoping people get out and can see that for themselves, and hopefully they’ll take a stand to help the planet.”