Lauren Cohan was born on January 7,1982 and is an American-British actress best known for her role as Maggie Greene in the AMC post-apocalyptic horror television series The Walking Dead.
14 Facts About Lauren Cohan
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Lauren Cohan was raised in New Jersey until age 13, when her family moved to her mother's native UK, settling in Surrey.
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Lauren Cohan converted to Judaism at age five and had a Bat Mitzvah ceremony.
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Lauren Cohan is the only child of her parents, and has many younger half-siblings through her mother and father's remarriages.
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Lauren Cohan graduated from King Alfred's College, Winchester with a Bachelor of Arts degree in drama and English literature before touring with a theatre company she co-founded at the university.
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In 2006, after her film debut in Casanova as Sister Beatrice, Lauren Cohan starred in the sequel to Van Wilder, Van Wilder: The Rise of Taj, as Charlotte Higginson.
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Lauren Cohan played the recurring character Rose, a 560-year-old vampire, in The Vampire Diaries.
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Lauren Cohan guest starred on shows such as Archer, Cold Case, CSI: NY, Life, and Modern Family.
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Lauren Cohan starred in a pilot for The CW called Heavenly in which she played the lead character, Lily, an attorney who teams up with an angel; however, it was not picked up as a series.
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Lauren Cohan first appeared in season two as a recurring character, but she became a series regular at the start of season three.
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AMC refused, and Lauren Cohan began making herself available for TV pilots.
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Lauren Cohan eventually reached an agreement to appear in five episodes in the first half of season nine of The Walking Dead and departed the series in 2018.
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In early 2018, in the midst of her contract negotiations with AMC regarding The Walking Dead, Lauren Cohan was cast as CIA operative Francesca "Frankie" Trowbridge in the ABC action comedy-drama Whiskey Cavalier.
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Furthermore, showrunner Angela Kang indicated that Lauren Cohan might appear during the series' then-current tenth season as well.