Cobie Smulders Net Worth And Biography
William Harris Jacoba Francisca Maria “Cobie” Smulders professionally known as Cobie Smulders is a Canadian actress. She is best known for her role as Robin Scherbatsky in the sitcom How I Met Your Mother (2005-2014). Cobie Smulders started her career in 2002 and she wasted no time getting to the limelight through her excellent performances in films. However, in this article, RNN details Cobie Smulders’ net worth, biography, and career.
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Bio-Data
| Name | Jacoba Francisca Maria “Cobie” Smulders |
| Date of Birth | April 3, 1982 |
| Gender | Female |
| Marital Status | Married |
| Professions | Actress |
| Cobie Smulders’ Net Worth | $25 Million |
| Nationality | Canadian |
Biography
Cobie Smulders was born on April 3, 1982 in Vancouver, British Columbia. Her father is Dutch and her mother is British. She was raised in White Rock, British Columbia, and later moved to West Point Grey neighbourhood to attend high school at Lord Byng Secondary School. Cobie Smulder got her nickname “Cobie” from her great-aunt whom she is named after. And, she has four sisters. Also, as a child, she was a member of the Girl Guides of Canada and she participated as a Brownie (Girl Guide program for 7-10 years old).
Cobie Smulders was also briefly into modelling but she had recounted that she hated it and additionally stated that, the experience made her hesitant about pursuing her acting career.
As a youth, she had recounted that she aspired to be a marine biologist. But, she picked an interest in theatre throughout her high school and she also briefly studied at the University of Victoria before returning to acting finally.
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Early Career
Cobie Smulders had her first acting role as a guest in the Jeremiah series. Afterwards, she made several appearances on TV and this includes a role she repeated on The L Word. Her first roles as a series regular was in the sort-lived series, Veritas: The Quest which ran for just one season. Following the show cancellation, Cobie Smulders was cast as TV reporter, Robin Scherbatsky on the CBS sitcom, How I Met Your Mother (2005). The show ran for nine seasons and it won 10 Emmy Awards.
In June 2010, Cobie Smulders made her off-Broadway debut in Love, Loss, and What I Wore at the Westside Theatre. She played Maria Hill in the 2012 film, The Avengers. That period, she received training from a Los Angeles SWAT team trainer to handle guns so she could better portray her character. She also repeated her role in three episodes of the television series Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D, including Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014), Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015), Avenger: Infinity War (2018), Avengers: Endgame (2019), and, Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019).
Career Breakthrough
In 2013, Cobie Smulders had a supporting role in Safe Haven. In the same year, she starred in Delivery Man and They Came Together. Then in 2014, she voiced a Lego version of Wonder Woman in the animated film, The Lego Movie which was the first time the Wonder Woman character had a theatrical film appearance. In July 2015, Cobie Smulders was reported to have exited Confirmation because she had broken a leg. After then, Zoe Lister-Jones replaced her in the role of Harriet Grant.
In 2016, she appeared in The Intervention and the film, Jack Reacher: Never Go Back opposite Tom Cruise. Then she repeated the character Mother in the Netflix series, A Series of Unfortunate Events. From 2017 to 2019, she starred in Friends from College in the main role of Lisa Turner. She also starred as Dexedrine “Dex” Parios in the ABC crime drama, Stumptown which premiered on the 25th of September, 2019. In 2022, she repeated the role of Robin Charles Scherbatsky for the first season finale of the HIMYN spinoff, How I Met Your Father which airs on Hulu “Timing is Everything”.
Cobie Smulders’ Net Worth
As of 2022, Cobie Smulders’ net worth is estimated at $25 million.
Charity Work
In 2014, Cobie Smulders filmed a public service announcement with Ocena, an international ocean-conservation organization. In May 2020, she released Let’s Go to the Mall, a clip prodying which is a song her character on How I Met Your Mother performed. The song is titled Let’s All Stay at Home to encourage the public to enforce COVID-19 lockdowns.
She also encouraged fans to donate to Save the Children, Canada Helps, and the Daily Bread Food Bank during the pandemic. In September 2020, she promoted cleaning up refuse and litter with National CleanUp Day, Clean Trails and Planet Oat.
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Personal Life
In January 2009, Cobie Smulders got engaged to Taran Killam. They got married on September 8, 2012 in Solvang, California. Their union is blessed with two daughters born in 2009 and 2015 respectively and they live in Pacific Palisades California.
In 2015, Cobie Smulders revealed that she had been diagnosed with ovarian cancer at age of 25, while on the set of How I Met Your Mother in 2007. She had surgery to remove two tumors from her ovaries but it was too late as the cancer had spread to her lymph nodes which resulted in the need for multiple operations for two years. In August 2019, Cobie Smulders said she is in remission. In 2020, she announced that she has acquired an American citizenship.
