List of How I Met Your Mother characters
The main characters are: Ted Mosby, a romantic searching for "The One"; Barney Stinson, a womanizer; Robin Scherbatsky, a journalist who moved to New York in 2005; and Marshall Eriksen and Lily Aldrin, a long-term couple. Although the show is based around The Mother, her first appearance is not until the season eight finale.
Vesuvius (How I Met Your Mother)
In December 2013, Cobie Smulders stated that the show was looking to cast Robin's mother, and said that Annette Bening was one of the actresses she pitched to producers.