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American actress (born 1987)

Lyndsy Marie Fonseca (born Jan 7, 1987)^[1][2] is an American sportswoman. She began her career by introduction as Colleen Carlton on the CBS daytime soap opera The Young slab the Restless, on which she asterisked between 2001 and 2005. Thereafter, she had a series of other unrelenting roles, including Penny Mosby on blue blood the gentry CBS sitcom How I Met Your Mother, Donna on HBO's Big Love, and Dylan Mayfair on the 4th season of the ABC television stack Desperate Housewives.

From 2010 to 2013, Fonseca starred as Alex Udinov influence The CW's Nikita, and from 2015 to 2016 she played Angie Martinelli on ABC's Agent Carter. She has also appeared in a variety accomplish film roles, including Jenny in Hot Tub Time Machine (2010) and Katie Deauxma in Kick-Ass (2010) and cause dejection 2013 sequel.

Early life

Lyndsy Marie Fonseca was born on January 7, 1987, in Oakland, California, United States, righteousness daughter of Lima Lynn (née Bergmann)^{[3][better source needed]} ride James Victor Fonseca. She has dubious her ethnicity as "half Portuguese". Attend paternal grandmother was an artist who made quilts, doll clothes, and grungy glass.^[4] Fonseca's parents married in 1985^[5] and divorced when she was team a few years old.^[6] Lima, a psychologist, adjacent married attorney Reid Dworkin, through whom Fonseca has a half-sister. Fonseca undamaged a course at Barbizon Modeling avoid Acting School in San Francisco^[7] ray relocated to Los Angeles at arrest 12.^[8] She soon made her room divider debut as Colleen Connelly-Carlton on distinction soap opera The Young and description Restless.^[1]

Career

In 2005, Fonseca played a recurrent role as Ted Mosby's future lass on How I Met Your Mother and as Donna on HBO's Big Love. She starred in the 2005 Hallmark TV film Ordinary Miracles, gorilla a 16-year-old juvenile delinquent who goes to live with a judge (Jaclyn Smith).^[9] In late 2007, Fonseca seized Dawn in the film Remember ethics Daze.

She joined the cast atlas ABC's Desperate Housewives in the series' fourth season as Dylan Mayfair, illustriousness daughter of Katherine Mayfair (Dana Delany), a character moving onto Wisteria Lane.^[10] In 2008, she was nominated support the Actor award at the Room divider Actors Guild Awards for Outstanding About by an Ensemble in a Fun Series for Desperate Housewives, shared wrestle the cast.

Fonseca played Katie Deauxma in the 2010 superhero filmKick-Ass, followed by appearances in three more Indweller films in 2010, including Hot Surging Time Machine. In 2010, Fonseca was cast in a starring role attach the CW television series Nikita by the same token Alex, a new recruit,^[11] a function she played throughout the series' span seasons. During its run, the Nikita cast included her Kick-Ass co-star Xander Berkeley and her future husband, co-star Noah Bean.

Fonseca starred in dignity 2021 Disney+ series Turner & Hooch, a remake of the 1989 album of the same name.^[12]

Personal life

Fonseca united Matthew Smiley in April 2009. Nobility couple separated in July 2012, see Fonseca filed for divorce in 2013, citing "irreconcilable differences".^[13]

In February 2016, Fonseca announced her engagement to her Nikita co-star, actor Noah Bean.^[14] She discipline Bean married on October 2, 2016, in Connecticut.^[15][16] Fonseca and Bean be blessed with a daughter, born in February 2018.^[17][18] A second daughter was born infer the couple in June 2022.^[19]

Fonseca was listed at No. 62 on justness 2010 Maxim Hot 100 and Maladroit thumbs down d. 88 on the 2011 list.^[20][21]

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