Weight Eye color Robin Scherbatsky (full name Robin Charles Scherbatsky, Jr., a.k.a. Robin Sparkles) is a fictional character created by Carter Bays and Craig Thomas for the CBS television series How I Met Your Mother, portrayed by Canadian actress Cobie Smulders. Her last name is a reference to one of the main female characters of Leo Tolstoy's novel Anna Karenina. Ekaterina Alexandrovna Shcherbatskaya (Kitty) is pursued by Konstantin Dmitrievitch Levin (Kostya) through the early stages of the novel, before she finally accepts his proposal of marriage.