Cobie Smulders

About Cobie Smulders

Cobie Smulders is a Canadian-American 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 franchise, starting with the film The Avengers (2012).

Smulders' other films include Safe Haven (2013), The Lego Movie (2014), Results (2015), The Intervention (2016), Jack Reacher: Never Go Back (2016) and The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part (2019).

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 made her theater debut in the off-Broadway production of the Nora Ephron play Love, Loss and What I Wore in 2010.

She then made her Broadway debut in the revival of the Noël Coward comedy Present Laughter (2017) earning a Theater World Award.

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.They have two daughters, born in 2009 and 2015. In January 2025, Smulders and Killam's home in Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles was destroyed by a wildfire.

As of February 2026, Cobie has amassed 2.1 million followers on Instagram.

The How I Met Your Mother Actresses. Alyson Hannigan, Cobie Smulders, Cristin Milioti, Jennifer Morrison.