Lauren Cohan (born January 7, 1982)[1] is an Anglo-American,[2] actress best known for playing Maggie Green in the AMC post-apocalyptic horror television series The Walking Dead (2011–2018; 2020–present). Her other notable television roles include Bella Talbot in the dark fantasy series Supernatural (2007–2008), Rose in the paranormal teen drama The Vampire Diaries (2010–2012), Vivian MacArthur Volkov in the action comedy Chuck (2011) and Franciska's action comedy Frankie (Frankie) in the "Whiskey Rider" (2019). Her films include comedy Van Wilder: The Rise of the Taj Mahal (2006), the psychological thriller the horror film Boys (2016), the biopic All Eyez on Me (2017) and the action thriller 22 Miles (2018).
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Cohan was born in Lauren Storholm in Cherry Hill, New Jersey to American father Paul Storholm and Scottish mother Susan Cohen (surnamed House), who is now divorced. Her father is of Irish and Norwegian descent and her mother is from the Scottish suburb of Newton Mearns in Glasgow. She grew up in New Jersey until she was 13 years old when her family moved to her mother's native Britain, settling in Surrey. In addition to Cherry Hill, Kohan lived in Georgia for a year before her family moved to the UK.
Lauren's surname was legally changed to that of her stepfather, Kohan, while her mother converted to Judaism when she remarried. Lauren Cohan converted to Judaism at the age of five and performed a bat rite of passage. Kohan is the only daughter of her parents, and she has many young half-siblings due to their parents' remarriage. Her younger brother is Daniel Cohan, a British private chef living in Beverly Hills. Through one of her sisters, Arya, she had a niece, Isla. Cohen graduated from King Alfred College and earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Drama and English Literature before graduating from Winchester (now the University of Winchester) to tour the theatre company she co-founded at the University.
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In 2006, Cohan starred in the sequel to Van Wilder (2002) after his debut as Sister Beatrice in Casanova (2005), Van Wilder: The Rise of the Taj Mahal, as Charlotte Higginson. Her next role was in the 2008 film Float. In February 2010, she starred in Deathmatch 2 and starred in the 2016 supernatural horror film The Boy. Also in 2016, she played Martha Wayne (Batman's late mother) in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, and Lyra Steinberg in the 2017 biopic All Eyez on Me.
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In 2007, Kohan earned her first major supporting role — partly described as a season leader — when she played Bella Talbot in the third season of The Supernatural, she was a thief who procured valuable paranormal items and sold them to the supernatural world of very wealthy, very powerful people. The character appears in six episodes of the series, which is her last episode in the penultimate episode of the third season, "Time is with Me.".
Kohan played Rose, a 560-year-old vampire, in The Vampire Diaries. In 2011, she joined the TV series Chuck, repeatedly playing Vivian McArthur Volkoff, the daughter of a "charming, mature socialite" from the UK and main villain Alexei Volkoff. She also made cameo appearances in shows such as Shooter, Cold Case, Crime Scene Investigation: New York, Life, and Modern Family.
Cohan has starred in pilot CW called Tiangong (2011), where she plays the protagonist, Lily, a lawyer who teams with angels; However, it was not included as a series.
In April 2011, Cohan was cast on the walking corpse of her most notable role in Maggie Green (later Syngman Rhee), the AMC Post-Apocalypse Horror based on the tv series comic book series of the same name. She first appeared in season two as a recurring character, but she became a regular in the series at the beginning of season three. Drama was the highest-rated series in cable television history in 2015 at the end of season eight, the Walking Dead, and Kohan fulfilled her contractual obligations as a series regular. It was later reported that Cohen had not yet reached an agreement, signing Season Nine as the main cast member due to a salary dispute as she demanded an increase in salary close to that of her male co-stars Andrew Lincoln and Norman Ridus. AMC refused, and Kohan began to make himself a TV pilot. Kohan finally reached an agreement to star in five episodes in the first half of The Walking Dead season nine and leave the series in 2018.
In early 2018, during contract negotiations with AMC on The Walking Dead, Cohan was selected as CIA agent Francesca "Frankie" Trobridge in the ABC action comedy Whiskey Rider. Whiskey Cavalier entered the series in May 2018 and premiered on February 24, 2019. ABC did not renew the second season of the series. In October 2019, Kohan reportedly returned to The Walking Dead as a regular on season 11 and final of the series. In addition, show host Angela Kang said that Kohan may also appear in the series' then-tenth season.
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Cohan divides her time and work between London and Los Angeles