Emily VanCamp has logged out of Mom Mode and is logging back into TV drama—and y’all, it’s juicy.
After a few years of diaper duty and ducking red carpets, Emily VanCamp (a.k.a. the queen of soft smirks and emotional stares) is back in the game! The 38-year-old actress—last seen keeping hearts beating and then breaking them on The Resident—is returning to television in a spicy new legal series called Prejudice. And get this: she’s not playing a nurse, a spy, or a damsel in distress. Nope. She’s serving main character energy as a former sex worker turned powerhouse lawyer. We love a redemption arc with stilettos and subpoenas.
Emily announced the news like any self-respecting celeb would: on Instagram, with a 💃🏼 and 🙌🏼, because emojis are the punctuation of excitement.
“Prejudice has finally found a home and we cannot wait to bring these incredible characters and stories to life!” she wrote, probably while sipping oat milk and being effortlessly stunning.
The show is being cooked up by Celeste Parr (writer, creator, and probably someone who’s watched a LOT of Suits) and is described as a legal procedural, but with extra spice. Think Law & Order, but make it ✨scandalous pasts and feminist rage✨.
Emily’s character, Liesl Wellington—yes, that’s her actual name and not the name of an expensive tea brand—is a rising litigator whose career goes boom when her past life as a sex worker is exposed. Instead of crying into a courtroom wig, she does what every main character in a prestige drama does: she starts her own dang law firm to fight for the underdogs, the unheard, and the canceled. It’s giving Elle Woods with edge.
The show hasn’t officially been greenlit yet (we know, rude), but Bell Media and Fox Entertainment Global are already writing more episodes, which is the TV version of getting engaged but not setting a date.
Bell Media’s VP Justin Stockman gave the corporate version of a standing ovation, saying the show “tackles complex themes including identity, judgment, and resilience,” which basically means it’s gonna be deep, messy, and totally bingeable.
If picked up, Prejudice will air on Fox in the U.S. and on CTV and Crave in Canada—which means Emily will once again be on our screens, in our hearts, and in our “Most Iconic Comebacks” Pinterest boards.
This will be Emily’s first regular TV role in three years, unless you count her MCU cameo in What If…?, which we definitely do, but let’s be real, animated Sharon Carter is not the same as full-on courtroom queen Liesl Wellington.
TL;DR: Emily VanCamp is back. She’s playing a badass. There’s legal drama. There’s scandal. And if the TV gods are kind, we’ll all be watching her drop truth bombs in court by next year.
Your honor, we’re obsessed.
