Background
Cohan was born on January 7, 1982 to an American father and a British mother, and has Scottish, Irish, and Norwegian ancestry.
Cohan was born on January 7, 1982 to an American father and a British mother, and has Scottish, Irish, and Norwegian ancestry.
University of Winchester.
Sources have listed Cohan"s birthplace as Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, but Cohan has stated in interviews that she was born in New Jersey. During her childhood, Cohan lived in Cherry Hill—and, for one year, Georgia—before moving to the United Kingdom at age 13. The family settled in Surrey.
She has five younger siblings, including a stepsister.
Cohan graduated from the University of Winchester with a Bachelor degree in Drama and English Literature, before touring with a theatre company she had co-founded at the university. Cohan then split her time and work between London and Los Angeles, California, working on several films as well as some non-commercial projects.
Cohan has dual citizenship of both the United States and the United Kingdom.