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THE RESIDENT: Emily VanCamp

Emily VanCampis leavingThe Residentafter four seasons.

The actress, 35, is ending her run as nurse practitioner Nic Nevin ahead of the medical drama’s season 5 premiere,Entertainment Weeklyreports.It is not immediately clear as to why VanCamp, who has starred on the Fox drama since 2018, is leaving the show.

Fox declined PEOPLE’s request for comment.

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THE RESIDENT: Emily VanCamp

“With Nic, I get to tap into more of my true self,” VanCamp said at the time. “Her maternal side spoke to the stage of life I’m in now. I’ve been thinking about having children, and when I read this, it made sense to me.”

VanCampmarried her husband,Revengestar Josh Bowman, in 2018. While she kept her pregnancy private, the actress revealed on Thursday that she and Bowman recentlywelcomed their first child together.

THE RESIDENT: Emily VanCamp

VanCamp previouslytold PEOPLEthat working on bothThe Falcon and the Winter SoldierandResidentbefore the coronavirus shutdown felt like “burning the candle at both ends,” and time at home with her husband was “very welcome.”

“I was coming off of doing two jobs at the same time — I was doingThe Falcon and Winter SoldierandThe Resident, sort of burning the candle at both ends,” she said at the time. “So the beginning [of lockdown] was very welcome.”

She added, “I was like, ‘Okay, I actually get to just sleep for a bit,’ which was amazing. Just being able to enjoy the quiet, enjoy my husband and my dog, enjoy being home, things that I hadn’t had for a really long time. I did not take that for granted at all. I loved every second of it.”

The Residentreturns for season 5 Sept. 21 at 8/7c on Fox.

source: people.com