‘The best city in the world’

She left Vancouver for the City of Angels 12 years ago, but there’s no mistaking where actress Emmanuelle Vaugier calls home.

“My base is in Vancouver; my friends and family are there,” said Vaugier, who plays Mia on the sitcom Two and a Half Men and Det. Jessica Angell on CSI: NY. “That’s something that you can’t really replace when you move to a new city.”

Vaugier was born in Vancouver and raised in the Kerrisdale neighbourhood. She acted in school plays while attending Crofton House and Magee Secondary and dabbled in modelling before landing commercials and the lead in a made-for-TV movie.
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