--- title: The Walking Dead's Lauren Cohan Gets Pranked on Ellen description: Lauren Cohan is no stranger to scary situations. canonical: https://time.com/4188649/lauren-cohan-pranked-on-ellen/ author: Megan McCluskey article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-01-21T16:54:18.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:29:01.799Z og:title: Watch The Walking Dead's Lauren Cohan Freak Out When She Gets Pranked og:description: "I'm the biggest scaredy-cat ever" og:url: https://time.com/4188649/lauren-cohan-pranked-on-ellen/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch The Walking Dead's Lauren Cohan Freak Out When She Gets Pranked twitter:description: "I'm the biggest scaredy-cat ever" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Watch _The Walking Dead_'s Lauren Cohan Freak Out When She Gets Pranked on _Ellen_  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Jan 21, 2016 4:54 PM UTC  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Jan 21, 2016 4:54 PM UTC [Lauren Cohan](http://time.com/13986/late-night-highlight-lauren-cohan-doesnt-want-to-be-killed-off-in-the-walking-dead/) is no stranger to [scary situations](http://time.com/4088698/haunted-house-scary-movies-video/). The 34-year-old _Walking Dead_ star has come face to face with zombies, vampires and haunted dolls, but she still wasn’t prepared to be pranked by Ellen DeGeneres. Cohan appeared on Wednesday’s episode of _Ellen_ to promote her new movie _The Boy_. Little did she know that the host had more in store for her than a quick chat about the upcoming [horror film](http://time.com/4181918/ted-cruz-horror-movie-it-follows-republican-debate/). As Cohan spoke about her latest project, a masked man suddenly popped out of the hollowed-out table next to her, startling the actress and causing her to let out a loud shriek. “I thought to myself right before I came out here, ‘she’s going to do something to scare you, be tough,'” Cohan said. “I’m the biggest scaredy-cat ever.” **Read More:** [_The Walking Dead_: Did the Midseason Finale Satisfy?](http://time.com/4128917/the-walking-dead-midseason-finale/) Watch the full clip above. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4188649/lauren-cohan-pranked-on-ellen/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4188649/lauren-cohan-pranked-on-ellen/"},"headline":"Watch The Walking Dead's Lauren Cohan Freak Out When She Gets Pranked on Ellen","datePublished":"2016-01-21T16:54:18.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:29:01.799Z","description":"\"I'm the biggest scaredy-cat ever\"","url":"https://time.com/4188649/lauren-cohan-pranked-on-ellen/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Television","The Walking Dead","Ellen Degeneres","TV","ellen","The Ellen Degeneres Show"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Megan McCluskey","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4188649/lauren-cohan-pranked-on-ellen/","name":"Watch The Walking Dead's Lauren Cohan Freak Out When She Gets Pranked on Ellen"}}]}] ```