Lauren Cohan

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, and for her role as DC Comics character Martha Wayne in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016). 2Early life Cohan was born to an American father and a British mother, and has Scottish, Irish, and Norwegian ancestry. Some sources give 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, New Jersey—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 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 universit