26 Facts About Kirsten Cohen

Kirsten Cohen is a fictional character on the FOX television series The OC.

Kirsten Cohen Nichol was born in Newport Beach in Orange County, California.

Kirsten Cohen is the eldest daughter of Caleb and Rose Nichol, elder sister of Hailey Nichol, and elder half-sister to Lindsay Gardner.

Kirsten Cohen comes from a very wealthy background: her father is a real estate developer who founded The Newport Group, one of the most powerful companies in California.

Kirsten Cohen is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley with a degree in art history.

Shortly after Kirsten Cohen began her family, her mother became ill with ovarian cancer.

Kirsten Cohen joined her father at The Newport Group, becoming the workaholic she was introduced as at the beginning of the show.

In contrast to her husband, who campaigned for Democratic presidential candidate Walter Mondale in 1984, Kirsten Cohen was relatively conservative and supported the Republican Party because her parents did.

Kirsten Cohen herself has admitted to being a stricter parent and has sometimes clashed with Sandy's "hippie parenting".

When Ryan's biological mother Dawn leaves Newport for good in the first season, she notes that Kirsten Cohen personified everything a mother should be.

Kirsten Cohen is generous, sympathetic, and fiercely protective of her family, including Ryan, to the point where she extended her kindness to his biological mother Dawn and ex-girlfriend Theresa.

Kirsten Cohen is welcoming to her boys' girlfriends and would ask them over for dinner.

Kirsten Cohen is introduced when she meets troubled teen Ryan Atwood for the first time.

The rest of the season focuses on the Cohens adjusting to the newest member of the family, with Kirsten becoming a mother figure in Ryan's eyes.

Sandy and Kirsten Cohen's marriage begins to deteriorate, and she turns to alcohol to compensate.

Kirsten Cohen's alcoholism is fueled by working closely with a man whom she has a crush on, Newport Living magazine editor Carter Buckley, who drinks too much.

Kirsten Cohen is in the middle of an emotional conversation with Sandy, who tells her to pull over, when she drops her phone on the center console.

Kirsten Cohen reaches over to pick up her phone but doesn't see that she is approaching an intersection.

Kirsten Cohen survives the accident with minor bruises and a few broken fingers.

Kirsten Cohen convinces Sandy that she's swearing off alcohol after the scare of the accident, but Sandy finds a bottle of vodka in her purse.

Kirsten Cohen is confronting her when Julie calls to inform the Cohens that Caleb died of a heart attack.

Ryan and Seth are still not talking at Thanksgiving, prompting Kirsten Cohen to send them on a trip to the grocery store.

Kirsten Cohen was initially protective of Ryan, knowing Frank history of abusing Ryan and his mother and brother, but sees that Frank was now reformed and talks Sandy into giving him a chance.

Kirsten Cohen invites him over for dinner, but it ends badly after they find out that Frank lied about having cancer just so he could see his son again.

Kirsten Cohen finally comes clean to Sandy about the abortion.

Kirsten Cohen's daughter is named Sophie Rose Cohen, after Sandy's and her own mother.