What is Cobie Smulders net worth and salary?
Cobie Smulders is a Canadian actress who has a net worth of $25 million. She started her professional acting career with a small role in the series, “Jeremiah”. From there, she went on to appear in supporting or recurring roles on several television shows, including “Tru Calling,” “Veritas: The Quest,” “Smallville,” and “The L Word.” She became a household name when she was cast by Robin Scherbatsky in How I Met Your Mother. In addition to her television work, she has appeared in films such as “The Long Weekend” and “The Slammin’ Salmon.” Perhaps most importantly, she has starred in a number of films in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
Salary
On How I Met Your Mother, Cobie Smulders’ maximum salary was $225,000 per episode. That came to about $6 million for a single season.
Youth
Smulders was born on April 3, 1982 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Her father was Dutch and her mother British and she has four sisters. Her birth name is Jacoba Francisca Maria, but she earned the nickname “Cobie” from an aunt of hers, whose name was also Jocoba. The family was originally raised in the White Rock neighborhood and then moved to West Point Grey, where Smulders attended Lord Lyng Secondary School for high school.
In her youth, Smulders was a member of the Girl Guides of Canada and also worked as a model, which she did not particularly enjoy and made her hesitant to enter show business. She participated in theater during high school and then enrolled at Victoria University after graduation. However, she decided to quit to pursue acting.
Career
Cobie Smulders began acting professionally when she landed a small role in an episode of the Showtime series, “Jeremiah.” She also had a recurring role in “The L Word” as well as one in “Veritas: The Quest.” She got her big break after being cast as the character Robin Scherbatsky in the CBS sitcom “How I Met Your Mother” in 2005. The series was a huge success and won 10 Emmy Awards during its nine seasons. Smulders maintained her role throughout the series.
Smulders continued to play other roles while filming How I Met Your Mother. She starred in an off-Broadway play, ‘Love, Loss, and What I Wore’ at the Westside Theater in June 2010. She was then cast as the character Maria Hill in the 2012 film ‘The Avengers’. To get into character, she trained with a Los Angeles SWAT team to receive proper weapons training. Her role in The Avengers led to greater fame as she reprized the role in a number of other Marvel productions. He appeared as Hill in three episodes of Agents of SHIELD, as well as in the films Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Avengers: Age of Ultron, Avengers: Infinity War, Avengers: Endgame and Spider-Man: Leave the house.”
Smulders has also appeared in other films and television shows. In 2013, she played a supporting role in the novel “Safe Haven” and then had roles in “Delivery Man” and “They Came Together”. She also did a bit of voice acting in 2014’s The Lego Movie, where she voiced the character Wonder Woman. She was originally cast in the movie “Confirmation” but had to drop out of the role after breaking her leg.
She appeared in the 2016 comedy-drama The Intervention alongside Natasha Lyonne, Ben Schwartz, Jason Ritter and Vincent Piazza, al. He then starred alongside Tom Cruise in Jack Reacher: Never Go Back. In 2017, she landed the role of a mother in the Netflix series, A Series of Unfortunate Events. She continued to work with Netflix in 2017 on their original series, Friends from College, in which she was cast as one of the main characters, Lisa Turner. In 2019, she starred in the ABC crime drama Stumptown, portraying a veteran suffering from PTSD named Dexedrine “Dex” Parios.
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Personal life
Smulders met actor, writer and comedian Taran Killam at a friend’s party in 2005. The two began dating and became engaged in January 2009. They then married in September 2012 in California. The couple have two daughters together, one born in 2009 and the other in 2015. The family lives in Pacific Palisades, California.
When Smulders was 25, she was diagnosed with ovarian cancer while filming How I Met Your Mother. She underwent two surgeries to remove two ovarian tumors, but by then the cancer had already spread. She then had to undergo a number of other surgeries over the next two years to continue fighting the cancer. She announced in 2019 that she is in remission.
Smulders has thrown her support behind a number of charitable causes. She worked with Oceana, an international ocean conservation organization in 2014 to produce a public service announcement. During the Covid-19 pandemic, Smulders released a clip of herself singing “Let’s All Stay at Home”, which was a parody version of a song performed by her character on “How I Met Your Mother”, called “Let’s Go to the mall”. During the pandemic, she openly supported causes and organizations such as Save the Children, Canada Helps and the Daily Bread Food Bank. Her support for conservation was also clear through her work with National CleanUp Day, Clean Trails and Planet Oat.
immobility
In 2009, Cobie paid $990,000 for a three-unit property in LA’s Los Feliz neighborhood. In 2017, she sold this property to comedian Demitri Martin for $1.4 million.
In 2012, Cobie and Taran paid $2 million for an apartment in New York.
