Cobie Smulders has been cast in the lead role of the ABC drama pilot inspired by the graphic novel Stumptown by Greg Rucka.
The project follows Dex Parios (Smulders), a strong, assertive, and unapologetically sharp-witted army veteran working as a P.I. in Portland, Oregon. With a complicated personal history and only herself to rely on, she solves other people’s messes with a blind eye toward her own.
Parios is further described as a whip-smart, hard-luck heroine you can’t help but get behind. Once a decorated Military Intelligence officer overseas, Dex is now back home in Portland, Oregon, unable to hold down a steady job, spinning her wheels, running up gambling debts, waiting for trouble to catch up with her.
Smulders previously appeared in multiple episodes of the ABC-Marvel series Agents of SHIELD, reprising her role as SHIELD agent Maria Hill from the Marvel Cinematic Universe. She also recently reprised the same role in the Oscar-winning animated feature Spider-Man: Into the Spider-verse. Smulders is best known for her starring role in the popular CBS sitcom How I Met Your Mother. Should Stumptown get ordered to series, it would mark her first regular broadcast role since the end of HIMYM. Most recently, Smulders starred in the Netflix series Friends From College.
