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Rebecca Romijn returns to Canada for ‘King & Maxwell’

TORONTO — Rebecca Romijn could be an honourary Canadian.

The 40-year-old actress has spent a big chunk of her post-modelling career in front of cameras in Canada.

Romijn recently completed work in Vancouver on the new series King & Maxwell, which premieres Aug. 27 on Showcase.

She made her big screen debut in the 1998 made-in-Toronto comedy Dirty Work and followed it by playing Mystique in 2000’s Toronto-shot X-Men and the 2003 and 2006 made-in-Vancouver sequels.

Romijn also spent time in Southern Ontario to make 2004’s Godsend and 2010’s The Con Artist.

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On Monday, she was back in the city to promote King & Maxwell on Global’s The Morning Show with her co-star Jon Tenney.

“I really think this is the golden age of television,” she said. “Television has never been better. There are so many great stories being told.”

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On King & Maxwell, Romijn and Tenney are disgraced Secret Service agents working as private investigators.

Romijn worked long days in Vancouver while her husband, actor Jerry O’Connell, took care of their four-year-old twin daughters back home in Los Angeles.

What will she will tell Dolly and Charlie if they express interest in following in her footsteps?

” You have to be a student until you’re 18.”

Watch Rebecca Romijn and Jon Tenney together on The Morning Show:

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