Cobie Smulders plays Jo, pictured above, in the 2013 Alliance Films release Safe Haven. Fluent in French, Smulders grew up wanting to be a doctor or a marine biologist, but started to explore acting after appearing in several high school productions. She is one of the stars of the long-running CBS sitcom How I Met Your Mother, playing the role of Robin Sherbatsky, a guy’s girl and former Canadian teen pop sensation Robin Sparkles. The show has been nominated for an Emmy for Outstanding Comedy Series, a People’s Choice Award for Favorite TV Comedy and a Teen Choice Award for Choice TV Show: Comedy. Smulders recently starred in box-office record-breaker The Avengers opposite Robert Downey Jr., Chris Hemsworth, Chris Evans, Mark Ruffalo, Jeremy Renner and Scarlett Johansson. She played S.H.I.E.L.D. operative Maria Hill, second-in-command to Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson). The highest grossing film of 2012, The Avengers has raked in more than $1.5 billion worldwide. Spotted by a modelling agency when she was in her teens, Cobie Smulders began her career working internationally in such exotic destinations as France, Italy, Greece, and Germany. She now lives in Los Angeles.