Robin Scherbatsky | |
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How I Met Your Mother character | |
First appearance | "Pilot" |
Last appearance | "Last Forever" |
Created by |
Carter Bays Craig Thomas |
Information | |
Nickname(s) | Aunt Robin Bus Lady Scherbatsky RoRo R.J. R Train Scherpoopy |
Aliases | Robin Sparkles Robin Daggers Night Falcon |
Gender | Female |
Occupation |
Journalist News Anchor Canadian Pop Star (Formerly) |
Family | Robin Charles Scherbatsky, Sr. (father) Geneviève Scherbatsky (mother) Katie Scherbatsky (sister) |
Spouse(s) | Barney Stinson(m. 2013-2016) |
Significant other(s) |
Ted Mosby (Boyfriend) Gael (ex-boyfriend) Don Frank (ex-boyfriend) Simon Tremblay (ex-boyfriend) Kevin Venkataraghavan (ex-fiancé) Nick Podarutti (ex-boyfriend) |
Nationality | Canadian |
Robin Charles Scherbatsky Jr. is a fictional character created by Carter Bays and Craig Thomas for the CBS television series How I Met Your Mother, portrayed by Canadian actress Cobie Smulders. Robin is the on-again, off-again love interest of Barney Stinson (Neil Patrick Harris) and Ted Mosby (Josh Radnor), and a close friend to Lily Aldrin (Alyson Hannigan) and Marshall Eriksen (Jason Segel).
Show creators Carter Bays and Craig Thomas always intended for Robin Scherbatsky not to be the mother of Ted Mosby's children, stating that the show is about how "Ted meets the perfect woman, and it’s [still] not his final love story." In various interviews, Bays and Thomas said that "a pretty famous actress" turned down the role of Robin; they revealed in February 2014 that Jennifer Love Hewitt had turned down the part. They then cast Cobie Smulders, an unknown. Bays and Thomas later said: "Thank God we did for a million reasons... when Ted’s seeing her for the first time, America’s seeing her for the first time — the intriguingness of that propelled the show going forward and kept the show alive."
Robin Charles Scherbatsky Jr. was born on July 23, 1980 to a Canadian father, Robin Charles Scherbatsky, Sr. (Ray Wise) and an English mother, Genevieve Scherbatsky (Tracey Ullman) in Vancouver, British Columbia. She has a teenage sister named Katie (Lucy Hale). She has a difficult relationship with her father, who raised her as if she were a boy.