Cobie Smulders (born April 3, 1982, in Vancouver, BC, Canada) is an actress and former international model. Modelling roles As a child Smulders wanted to be either a doctor or a marine biologist but started to gain an interest in acting in high school, appearing in several school productions. Discovered by a modelling agency in her teens, she started to model internationally, including in locations such as Paris, Japan, Milan, Greece, and Germany. She finished high school in 2000 with high ho