{"id":1021582,"date":"2026-08-24T19:30:28","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T19:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1021582\/"},"modified":"2026-08-24T19:30:28","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T19:30:28","slug":"ben-mckenzie-joins-wife-morena-baccarin-on-sheriff-country-s2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1021582\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben McKenzie Joins Wife Morena Baccarin On &#8216;Sheriff Country&#8217; S2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tFormer Gotham co-stars and real-life husband-and-wife Ben McKenzie and <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/morena-baccarin\/\" id=\"auto-tag_morena-baccarin\" data-tag=\"morena-baccarin\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Morena Baccarin<\/a> will reunite on-screen in the Season 2 premiere of Baccarin\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/sheriff-country\/\" id=\"auto-tag_sheriff-country\" data-tag=\"sheriff-country\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sheriff Country<\/a>, their first appearance together on the <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/cbs\/\" id=\"auto-tag_cbs\" data-tag=\"cbs\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CBS<\/a> series. See photos above and below, as well as Baccarin\u2019s Instagram post.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tIn the \u201cCylone\u201d premiere episode, as Sheriff Mickey Fox (Baccarin) struggles to process a shocking revelation about her family, she races to save a troubled young woman whose descent into a dangerous criminal operation uncovers a growing threat to all of Edgewater, per the logline.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tMcKenzie will guest star as Sheriff Wade, a neighboring sheriff who is called in to assist Baccarin\u2019s Sheriff Mickey Fox, and has a few secrets of his own.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe\u00a0Fire Country\u00a0spinoff series follows straight-shooting sheriff Mickey Fox (Baccarin), the stepsister of Cal Fire\u2019s division chief Sharon Leone (Fire Country\u2018s Diane Farr). She investigates criminal activity while she patrols the streets of small-town Edgewater, contending with her ex-con father, Wes (W. Earl Brown), who is an off-the-grid marijuana grower, and a mysterious incident involving her wayward daughter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tMax Thieriot, Joan Rater, Tony Phelan, Matt Lopez, and Jerry Bruckheimer and KristieAnne Reed executive produce for Jerry Bruckheimer Television.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tMcKenzie who played Detective James Gordon, and Baccarin who portrayed Dr. Leslie Thompkins on Gotham, began their relationship while working on the show, later marrying in real life. Their characters shared an extensive romantic storyline and eventurally married on-screen during the series finale.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tSeason 2 of Sheriff Country premieres Friday, Oct. 9 at 8 p.m. on the CBS Television Network and streaming on Paramount+.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"c-lazy-image__img lrv-u-background-color-grey-lightest lrv-u-width-100p lrv-u-display-block lrv-u-height-auto\" src=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/wp-content\/themes\/pmc-deadline-2019\/assets\/public\/lazyload-fallback.jpg\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/3228273_SRFC_S2_0011b.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-lazy- data-lazy- height=\"683\" width=\"1024\" decoding=\"async\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t(L-R): Morena Baccarin as Sheriff Mickey Fox and Ben McKenzie as Sheriff Jim Wade in \u2018Sheriff Country\u2019 Season 2 premiere \u201cCyclone\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Gotham co-stars and real-life husband-and-wife Ben McKenzie and Morena Baccarin will reunite on-screen in the Season 2&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1021583,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[9],"tags":[15328,171,225308,302227,67,132,68],"class_list":["post-1021582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-cbs","tag-entertainment","tag-morena-baccarin","tag-sheriff-country","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/117152150426601852","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1021582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021582\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1021583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1021582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1021582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1021582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}