Cobie Smulders to Star in ABC’s Drama Pilot ‘Stumptown’ From ‘Venom’ Director

Former “HIMYM” star will play a private detective in Portland

| February 25, 2019 @ 3:01 PM Last Updated: February 25, 2019 @ 3:11 PM
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Cobie Smulders will star in ABC’s drama pilot, “Stumptown” from Jason Richman and executive produced by “Venom” director Ruben Fleischer.

The “How I Met Your Mother” star will play the lead, Dex Parios. Inspired by the graphic novels, “Stumptown” follows Parios, a strong, assertive, and unapologetically sharp-witted army veteran working as a P.I. in Portland. With a complicated personal history and only herself to rely on, she solves other people’s messes with a blind eye toward her own.

Smulders starred for nine seasons on the CBS sitcom, “How I Met Your Mother” as Robin Scherbatsky from 2005 to 2014. More recently, she starred for two seasons on the Netflix comedy, “Friends From College,” which was just canceled.

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On the big screen, Smulders portrayed S.H.I.E.L.D. agent Maria Hill in Marvel films “The Avengers,” “Captain America: Winter Soldier” and “Avengers: Age of Ultron” (and had cameos in a pair of episodes of ABC’s “Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.”). Though she was last seen turning into dust in the end-credits scene of “Avengers: Infinity War,” she’ll return in this summer’s “Spider-Man: Far From Home.”

“Stumptown” is from ABC Studios and includes Dave Bernad, Greg Rucka, Matthew Southworth, Justin Greenwood as executive producers.

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