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My Take
Cobie Smulders strikes me as the rare actor whose superpower is reliability. Nine seasons anchoring one of television's most beloved ensembles takes a stamina that flashier careers never test, and sliding from sitcom warmth into the stern authority of a blockbuster franchise agent shows real range disguised as ease. I appreciate that she built her career on steadiness rather than spectacle, a very Canadian virtue perhaps. The model-turned-actress path often invites skepticism, but she answered it with consistency and dry comic timing. She may never chase the loudest roles, yet directors keep returning to her, and that quiet demand is the truest measure of respect.
Overview
Jacoba Francisca Maria "Cobie" Smulders (born April 3, 1982) is a Canadian actress. She is known for her starring role as Robin Scherbatsky in 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, starting with the film The Avengers (2012), through the television miniseries Secret Invasion (2023).
Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Cobie Smulders
- Name (Japanese)
- コビー・スマルダーズ
- Reading
- こびー・すまるだーず
- Born
- April 3, 1982 (age 44)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Aries / Dog
- Origin
- Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- 173 cm
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- film actor / stage actor / television actor / model / actor
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Private
- University
- University of Victoria
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
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7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-11
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.