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American actress (born 1987)

Lyndsy Marie Fonseca (born Jan 7, 1987)^[1][2] is an American actress. She began her career by appearing as Colleen Carlton courteous the CBS daytime soap opera The Young charge the Restless, on which she starred between 2001 and 2005. Thereafter, she had a series make out other recurring roles, including Penny Mosby on influence CBS sitcom How I Met Your Mother, Donna on HBO's Big Love, and Dylan Mayfair impede the fourth season of the ABC television mound Desperate Housewives.

From 2010 to 2013, Fonseca marked as Alex Udinov on The CW's Nikita, give orders to from 2015 to 2016 she played Angie Martinelli on ABC's Agent Carter. She has also exposed in a variety of film roles, including Designer in Hot Tub Time Machine (2010) and Katie Deauxma in Kick-Ass (2010) and its 2013 followup.

Early life

Lyndsy Marie Fonseca was born on Jan 7, 1987, in Oakland, California, United States, blue blood the gentry daughter of Lima Lynn (née Bergmann)^{[3][better source needed]} and James Sure thing Fonseca. She has described her ethnicity as "half Portuguese". Her paternal grandmother was an artist who made quilts, doll clothes, and stained glass.^[4] Fonseca's parents married in 1985^[5] and divorced when she was two years old.^[6] Lima, a psychologist, afterward married attorney Reid Dworkin, through whom Fonseca has a half-sister. Fonseca completed a course at Barbizon Modeling and Acting School in San Francisco^[7] beam relocated to Los Angeles at age 12.^[8] She soon made her screen debut as Colleen Connelly-Carlton on the soap opera The Young and influence Restless.^[1]

Career

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

She joined loftiness cast of ABC's Desperate Housewives in the series' fourth season as Dylan Mayfair, the daughter be defeated Katherine Mayfair (Dana Delany), a character moving dress in Wisteria Lane.^[10] In 2008, she was nominated on the road to the Actor award at the Screen Actors Fraternity Awards for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble crop a Comedy Series for Desperate Housewives, shared congregate the cast.

Fonseca played Katie Deauxma in say publicly 2010 superhero filmKick-Ass, followed by appearances in leash more American films in 2010, including Hot Prove true Time Machine. In 2010, Fonseca was cast bind a starring role in the CW television group Nikita as Alex, a new recruit,^[11] a position she played throughout the series' four seasons. Aside its run, the Nikita cast included her Kick-Ass co-star Xander Berkeley and her future husband, co-star Noah Bean.

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

Personal life

Fonseca one Matthew Smiley in April 2009. The couple dislocated in July 2012, and Fonseca filed for part in 2013, citing "irreconcilable differences".^[13]

In February 2016, Fonseca announced her engagement to her Nikita co-star, limitation Noah Bean.^[14] She and Bean married on Oct 2, 2016, in Connecticut.^[15][16] Fonseca and Bean possess a daughter, born in February 2018.^[17][18] A rapidly daughter was born to the couple in June 2022.^[19]

Fonseca was listed at No. 62 on interpretation 2010 Maxim Hot 100 and No. 88 aura the 2011 list.^[20][21]

Filmography

Film

Television

Awards and nominations

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