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"The mother of all episodes, indeed! After eight long seasons, CBS finally revealed the mother&amp;apos;s identity during How I Met Your Mother&amp;apos;s season finale on Monday, May 13. (Warning! Spoiler alerts below!)\r\n\r\nThe role of future Mrs. Ted Mosby went to a relatively unknown actress: Cristin Milioti. The 27-year-old actress was revealed at the very end of the episode to be &amp;quot;The Girl With the Yellow Umbrella,&amp;quot; which Ted Mosby (Josh Radnor) has identified throughout the series as his future wife.\r\nMilioti is best known for her Tony-nominated performance as &amp;quot;Girl&amp;quot; in the Broadway musical Once. She also starred in the 2012 comedy Sleepwalk With Me, and has appeared on The Sopranos, The Good Wife, Nurse Jackie and other popular TV series.&amp;#xA0;\r\n\r\n\r\nHow did the show keep Milioti&amp;apos;s casting a secret? &amp;quot;Part of what helped us is our casting director Marisa [Ross], she sort of has been talking about Cristin for two years now,&amp;quot; co-creator Carter Bays told Entertainment Weekly. &amp;quot;It helped that she turned us onto her and then the more we got to know Cristin and see her work, the more we realized, Yeah, she&amp;apos;s the right choice. So that definitely helped, because we didn&amp;apos;t want to do a big casting cattle call &amp;#x2014; we were going to make it &amp;apos;come audition for Barney&amp;apos;s cousin&amp;apos; or something.&amp;quot;\r\nMilioti&amp;apos;s musical background also put her at the top of the list. The show had previously revealed that the mother is a bass player in the band at Barney Stinson (Neil Patrick Harris) and Robin Scherbatsky&amp;apos;s (Cobie Smulders) wedding.\r\n\r\nAnd the cast has already embraced Milioti as part of the How I Met Your Mother family. &amp;quot;They all think she&amp;apos;s a fantastic actress,&amp;quot; co-creator Craig Thomas said. When she arrived on set, Thomas said the crew acted like, &amp;quot;&amp;apos;Here she is, the women we&amp;apos;ve been waiting for for 10 years!&amp;apos;&amp;quot;\r\nTell Us: Are you happy with the casting decision?"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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