Lauren Cohan Biography

Lauren Cohan (born January 7, 1982) is a British American actress and model, best known for her role as Maggie Greene on The Walking Dead (2011-present). She is also known for her recurring roles on the television series Supernatural (2007-2008), Chuck (2011) and The Vampire Diaries (2010-2012) and in the comedy film Van Wilder: The Rise of Taj (2006), the psychological thriller The Boy & played DC Comics character, Martha Wayne in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016)

Early life

Cohan was born to an American father and a British mother, and has Scottish, Irish, and Norwegian ancestry. Sources have listed Cohan's birthplace as Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, but Cohan has stated in interviews that she was born in New Jersey.

During her childhood, Cohan lived in Cherry Hill"?and, for one year, Georgia"?before moving to the United Kingdom at age 13. The family settled in Surrey. When Cohan's mother remarried, she took her new husband's surname, "Cohan", and converted to Judaism. Cohan also converted to her Jewish stepfather's religion at age five, and had a Bat Mitzvah ceremony. She has five younger siblings, including a stepsister.

Cohan graduated from the University of Winchester with a BA degree in Drama and English Literature, before touring with a theatre company she had co-founded at the university. Cohan then split her time and work between London and Los Angeles, California, working on several films as well as some non-commercial projects.

Career

Film

After her film debut Casanova as Sister Beatrice, she starred in the sequel to Van Wilder, Van Wilder: The Rise of Taj as Charlotte Higginson in 2006. Her next role was in the 2007 film Float. In February 2010, she was cast in Death Race 2: Frankenstein Lives, with Sean Bean and Danny Trejo and also supernatural-horror The Boy releasing in 2016 where Lauren plays the main character Greta.

Television

Cohan was cast in season three of Supernatural as Bela Talbot, a thief who procures valuable supernatural objects and sells them to very rich, very powerful people in the supernatural world. The character appeared in six episodes of the series, her last in the penultimate episode of season three.

Cohan played the recurring character Rose, a 560-year-old vampire, in The Vampire Diaries. In 2011, she joined the television series Chuck in a recurring role playing Vivian Volkoff, a "charming, sophisticated socialite" from the United Kingdom, and the daughter of primary villain, Alexei Volkoff. She also guest starred on shows such as Modern Family, CSI: NY, Cold Case, Life, Archer, and The Bold and the Beautiful.

Cohan starred in a pilot for The CW called Heavenly in which she played the lead character, an attorney who teams up with an angel; however, it was not picked up as a series.

In 2011, Cohan was cast in her most notable role as Maggie Rhee on The Walking Dead, an AMC horror drama series based on the comic book series of the same name. She first appeared in the second season as a recurring character, but she was among the starring roles at the start of the third season. The drama is the highest rated series in cable television history.

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2005	The Quiet Assassin	Alessia	Short film
2005	Casanova	Sister Beatrice
2006	Van Wilder: The Rise of Taj	Charlotte Higginson
2008	Float	Emily Fulton
2010	Young Alexander the Great	Leto
2010	Practical	Lauren	Short film
2010	Death Race 2: Frankenstein Lives	September Jones	Direct to video
2014	Reach Me	Kate
2016	The Boy	Greta
2017	All Eyez On Me	Leila Steinberg	Post-production

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2007	The Bold and the Beautiful	Forrester Creations Employee	1 episode
2007-2008	Supernatural	Bela Talbot	6 episodes
2008	Valentine	Joanna Clay	Episode: "Pilot"
2009	Life	Jackie Rolder	Episode: "Initiative 38"
2010	Modern Family	Receptionist	Episode: "Unplugged"
2010	Cold Case	Rachel Malone '86	Episode: "One Fall"
2010	CSI: NY	Meredith Muir	Episode: "Flag on the Play"
2010-2012	The Vampire Diaries	Rose	6 episodes
2011	Heavenly	Lily	Pilot
2011	Chuck	Vivian McArthur Volkoff	5 episodes
2011-present	The Walking Dead	Maggie Rhee	Recurring (season 2) Main cast (season 3-present)
2012	Childrens Hospital	Lulu Pratt	Episode: "British Hospital"
2013	Law and Order: Special Victims Unit	Avery Jordan	Episode: "Legitimate Rape"
2014	Archer	Juliana Calderon (voice)	4 episodes
2014	Tim & Eric's Bedtime Stories	Stephanie	Episode: "The Bathroom Boys"
2016	The Mindy Project	Ashley	2 episodes

Video games

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2014	Destiny	Exo Stranger

Awards and nominations

Year	Award	Category	Work	Result	Ref
2012	Satellite Awards	Best Television Cast (shared with the cast)	The Walking Dead
2013	Eyegore Awards	Best Ensemble Cast Award (shared with the cast)
2016	BloodGuts UK Horror Awards	Best Actress	The Boy
2017	People's Choice Awards	Favorite Sci-Fi/Fantasy TV Actress	The Walking Dead