Lauren Cohan's Family - Father, Mother, Siblings

Last Modified May 30, 2025 02:36 EDT


Lauren Cohan Family
Lauren Cohan


Born January 7, 1982, Lauren Cohan is an American actress who made her acting debut in 1996. She is best known for her role as Maggie Rhee in the AMC series The Walking Dead, for which she earned critical acclaim. Beyond that, Cohan has also starred in Supernatural, The Vampire Diaries, Chuck, and several other television shows. Not only that, the American actress has also starred in a handful of films over the course of her career, including Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, Death Race 2, and more.


Lauren Cohan’s parents


Lauren Cohan was born Lauren Storholm in Cherry Hill, New Jersey, to an American father named Paul Storholm and a British immigrant mother from Scotland named Susan Cohan. She was raised in New Jersey and spent a year in Georgia, but when she was 13, her family moved to the United Kingdom, with the family eventually settling in Surrey, England. However, her parents divorced when she was 7 years old, and after her mother remarried, Lauren Storholm changed her surname legally to her stepfather’s i.e., Cohan.


Lauren Cohan’s father

Lauren Cohan’s birth father is Paul Storholm, although not a lot of information is available about him beyond the fact that he is currently married with two children. He was also a senior loan originator at CNN Mortgage NMLS and is currently self-employed as per his LinkedIn profile.


Lauren Cohan’s mother

Lauren Cohan’s mother is Susan Cohan, although not a lot of information is available beyond the fact that she was born in the UK and that she remarried when Lauren Cohan was 7 years old.


Lauren Cohan’s siblings


While Lauren Cohan has no biological siblings, she has several half-siblings after her biological mother and biological father divorced and then later remarried to different people. She has 5 siblings, 4 half-siblings, and 1 step-sibling, from her mother's side, while from her biological father’s side, she has two younger half-siblings.


However, only three of her half-siblings, from her mother’s side, are known. They are:

  • Alia Cohan-Finnerty: Lauren Cohan’s half-sibling from her mother's side.

  • Daniel Cohan: A British chef who is a half-sibling from Lauren Cohan’s mother’s side.

  • Sabrina Faith Cohan: Another younger half-sibling from Cohan’s mother’s side.


FAQs

A. Lauren Cohan left The Walking Dead in season 9 due to a pay dispute and a new show but returned after her show was cancelled.

A. Maggie is three years older in the TV series (22) as compared to the comics (19).

A. No, Lauren Cohan and Steven Yeun never dated in real life.

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